Epstein-Barr virus late gene transcription depends on the assembly of a virus-specific preinitiation complex.

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During their productive cycle, herpesviruses exhibit a strictly regulated temporal cascade of gene expression that has three general stages: immediate early (IE), early (E), and late (L). Promoter complexity differs strikingly between IE/E genes and L genes. IE and E promoters contain cis-regulating sequences upstream of a TATA box, whereas L promoters comprise a unique cis element. In the case of the gammaherpesviruses, this element is usually a TATT motif found in the position where the consensus TATA box of eukaryotic promoters is typically found. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) encodes a protein, called BcRF1, which has structural homology with the TATA-binding protein and interacts specifically with the TATT box. However, although necessary for the expression of the L gene

SUBMITTER: Aubry V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4248913 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature