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Carboxy Terminus of Human Herpesvirus 8 Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen Mediates Dimerization, Transcriptional Repression, and Targeting to Nuclear Bodies
15 Sept 2000
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Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8; also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus) is the causative agent of Kaposi's sarcoma and certain B-cell lymphomas. In most infected cells, HHV-8 establishes a latent infection characterized by the expression of latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) encoded by open reading frame 73. Although unrelated by sequence, there are functional similarities between LANA and the...
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