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Epstein-Barr virus recombinants with specifically mutated BCRF1 genes.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 1993
Swaminathan S, Hesselton R, Sullivan J, Kieff E
Abstract excerpt
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) recombinants with specifically mutated BCRF1 genes were constructed and compared with wild-type BCRF1 recombinants derived in parallel for the ability to initiate and maintain latent infection and growth transformation in primary human B lymphocytes. A stop codon insertion after codon 116 of the 170-codon BCRF1 open reading frame or deletion of the entire gene had no effect on latent...
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