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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Recent Pat CNS Drug Discov. 2009 Jan;4(1):1–13. doi: 10.2174/157488909787002573

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

A: Wild type Adenovirus encodes for viral E1A protein that can bind to and inactivate cellular pRb protein. Inactivation of Rb releases E2F transcriptional factor driving the host cell into a proliferative phase, facilitating viral replication. B; Adenoviruses with a mutant E1A, can not inactivate cellular Rb, and can hence replicate only in cells with a mutant p16/pRb pathway.