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ReviewMedical microbiology and immunology2008

Phenotypes of major immediate-early gene mutants of mouse cytomegalovirus.

Andreas Busche, Ana Angulo, Penelope Kay-Jackson, Peter Ghazal, Martin Messerle

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Review in Medical microbiology and immunology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Andreas BuscheDepartment of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Ana Angulo
Penelope Kay-Jackson
Peter Ghazal
Martin Messerle
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DEConsorci Institut D'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi I Sunyer · ESUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immediate-early (IE) genes are the first genes to be transcribed during the lytic replication cycle of cytomegaloviruses (CMV), and encode nonstructural proteins, which are assumed to have mainly regulatory functions. The IE proteins may play important roles in the pathogenesis of CMV in vivo, for instance during the establishment of latency and during reactivation. We constructed mouse CMV mutants with disruptions in the major IE genes, ie1 and ie3, to study the roles of these genes in the context of the viral infection. Here we summarize the current results on the characterization of these mutants and give a perspective of the future research in this field.

Indexed as

MutationAnimalsGene DeletionGenes, Immediate-EarlyMiceMuromegalovirusMutagenesis, InsertionalPhenotype

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PMID18239940
OpenAlexW2154911715

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