Insertional mutagenesis of the murine cytomegalovirus genome: One prominent α gene (ie2) is dispensable for growth

A very strong enhancer is located upstream of an immediate early gene of human cytomegalovirus

1985 • 1,155 citations

Structural analysis of the major immediate early gene of human cytomegalovirus

1984 • 342 citations

Temporal Patterns of Human Cytomegalovirus Transcription: Mapping the Viral RNAs Synthesized at Immediate Early, Early, and Late Times After Infection

1982 • 311 citations

Organization and expression of the immediate early genes of human cytomegalovirus

1983 • 288 citations

Multiple spliced and unspliced transcripts from human cytomegalovirus immediate-early region 2 and evidence for a common initiation site within immediate-early region 1

1985 • 270 citations

Activation of the major immediate early gene of human cytomegalovirus by cis-acting elements in the promoter-regulatory sequence and by virus-specific trans-acting components

1985 • 245 citations

trans-activation and autoregulation of gene expression by the immediate-early region 2 gene products of human cytomegalovirus

1988 • 237 citations

Regulation of cytomegalovirus gene expression: alpha and beta promoters are trans activated by viral functions in permissive human fibroblasts

1985 • 229 citations

Identification and characterization of the human cytomegalovirus immediate-early region 2 gene that stimulates gene expression from an inducible promoter

1987 • 223 citations

A long and complex enhancer activates transcription of the gene coding for the highly abundant immediate early mRNA in murine cytomegalovirus.

1985 • 186 citations

Molecular engineering of the herpes simplex virus genome: Insertion of a second L-S junction into the genome causes additional genome inversions

1980 • 185 citations

Sequence and structural organization of murine cytomegalovirus immediate-early gene 1

1987 • 141 citations

Predominant immediate-early transcripts of human cytomegalovirus AD 169

1984 • 137 citations

Insertion and deletion mutagenesis of the human cytomegalovirus genome.

1987 • 137 citations

Molecular cloning and physical mapping of murine cytomegalovirus DNA

1983 • 134 citations

A cis-acting element within the 5′ leader of a cytomegalovirus β transcript determines kinetic class

1986 • 125 citations

Binding of transcription factors and creation of a large nucleoprotein complex on the human cytomegalovirus enhancer.

1987 • 123 citations

Regulation of cytomegalovirus late gene expression: gamma genes are controlled by posttranscriptional events

1986 • 118 citations

β-galactosidase as a marker in the peripheral and neural tissues of the herpes simplex virus-infected mouse

1988 • 116 citations

Autoregulation of the human cytomegalovirus major immediate-early gene

1985 • 107 citations

Immediate-early genes of murine cytomegalovirus: location, transcripts, and translation products

1987 • 107 citations

Temporal regulation of murine cytomegalovirus transcription and mapping of viral RNA synthesized at immediate early times after infection

1984 • 104 citations

Characterization of the major immediate-early polypeptides encoded by murine cytomegalovirus

1985 • 98 citations

The alpha sequence of the cytomegalovirus genome functions as a cleavage/packaging signal for herpes simplex virus defective genomes

1985 • 89 citations

Transcription of the immediate early genes of human cytomegalovirus strain AD169

1984 • 81 citations

Molecular cloning and restriction endonuclease mapping of the murine cytomegalovirus genome (Smith strain)

1983 • 76 citations

The 89,000-Mr murine cytomegalovirus immediate-early protein activates gene transcription

1986 • 74 citations

Precise localization of genes on large animal virus genomes: use of lambda gt11 and monoclonal antibodies to map the gene for a cytomegalovirus protein family.

1985 • 64 citations

A cytomegalovirus protein with properties of herpes simplex virus ICP8: partial purification of the polypeptide and map position of the gene

1987 • 54 citations

Late-phase expression of a murine cytomegalovirus immediate-early antigen recognized by cytolytic T lymphocytes

1986 • 53 citations

Transcription in mouse embryo cells permissively infected by murine cytomegalovirus

1983 • 27 citations