Term Information

Accession
GO:0019044
Name
maintenance of viral latency
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
latent virus maintenance, prophage maintenance, provirus maintenance
Alternate IDs
GO:0032360, GO:0075716
Definition
The perpetuation of a latent state, generally by repressing the viruses own lytic genes expression and ensuring expression of viral genes which function to keep the viral genome from being detected by the host defense mechanisms. Source: GOC:jl
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0019044 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of maintenance of viral latency (GO:0019044)
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maintenance of viral latency [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  viral latency (GO:0019042)
maintenance of viral latency [is_a relation] is_a  viral process (GO:0016032)

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