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Viral Transactivation

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Transactivation is a term that was coined to describe the induction of lambda phage late gene expression by lambda gene Q, which blocks transcription termination. Transactivation is also used to describe two phenomena that affect the initiation of transcription: the induction of helper phage late genes by satellite phage P4, and the induction of adeno–associated satellite virus genes by its adenovirus helper. The induction of retroviral genes by retroviral tat genes is also called transactivation, and in the case of HIV this phenomenon may be post transcriptional.

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