Article
Regulation of the herpesvirus saimiri oncogene stpC, similar to that of T-cell activation genes, in growth-transformed human T lymphocytes.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 1996
Fickenscher H, Biesinger B, Knappe A, Wittmann S, Fleckenstein B
Abstract excerpt
Herpesvirus saimiri strain C488, a T-cell tumor virus of New World primates, transforms human T lymphocytes to stable interleukin-2-dependent growth without need for further stimulation by antigen or mitogen. The transformed cell lines show the phenotype of activated mature T cells and retain man...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies
- Callithrix
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Cysteine
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Genes, Immediate-Early
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine
- Humans
