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The effects of the Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 2A on B cell function.
International reviews of immunology - 1 Jan 2001
Merchant M, Swart R, Katzman R B, Ikeda M, Ikeda A, Longnecker R, Dykstra M L, Pierce S K
Abstract excerpt
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infects B-lymphocytes circulating through the oral epithelium and establishes a lifelong latent infection in a subset of mature-memory B cells. In these latently infected B cells, EBV exhibits limited gene expression with the latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) being the most consistently detected transcript. This persistent expression, coupled with many studies ofthe function of LMP2A in...
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