Does the human immunodeficiency virus Tat trans-activator contain a discrete activation domain?

doi:10.1016/0042-6822(90)90354-t

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Does the human immunodeficiency virus Tat trans-activator contain a discrete activation domain?

Virology - 1 Oct 1990

Tiley L S, Brown P H, Cullen B R

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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) encodes a transcriptional trans-activator, termed Tat, that is absolutely required for viral replication in vitro. By analogy to other known transcription factors, it has been suggested that the HIV-1 Tat protein may contain discrete protein domains tha...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Cells, Cultured
Gene Products, tat
HIV-1
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Trans-Activators
Transcriptional Activation
tat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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