Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, January 6th, 2005
"Binding of the BZLF1 viral transactivator to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) oriLyt has been reported to be essential for viral DNA replication," wrote R. Feederle and colleagues, German Cancer Research Center.
"We have constructed a recombinant virus (E2-oriLyt-R) in which the oriLyt BZLF1-binding sites (ZRE) were exchanged against papilloma E2-binding sites. A fusion protein between the BZLF1 protein-transactivating domain and the E2 protein-binding domain was able to reactivate...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2005-01-06)
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