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The human adenoviruses contain double-stranded linear DNA chromosomes about 36000 base pairs in length. They undergo markedly different infectious processes in human as compared with rodent cells. In human cells, the entire viral chromosome is expressed in an ordered and highly regulated fashion. A set of early viral genes are activated rapidly after infection.
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Knippers, R., Levine, A.J. (1989). Introduction. In: Knippers, R., Levine, A.J. (eds) Transforming Proteins of DNA Tumor Viruses. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74578-2_22
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