Genes/genetics immediate-early

The genetically complex AcAfNPV prototype baculovirus genome is a double-stranded, covalently closed circular molecule with superhelical conformation and a size of approximately 130 kbp (12). Regulation of viral gene expression is temporally organized relative to the time of viral DNA replication which occurs at approximately 6 hours post infection in cultured insect cells. By our functional criteria, some of the early genes (Table I) are described as immediate early because they are expressed immediately in a viral infection or transient expression assay, or do not require... 

Schmahl, J., Raymond, C. S., Soriano, P. PDGF signaling specificity is mediated through multiple immediate early genes. Nat Genet 39 (2007) 52-60. 

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