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The in vivo binding site for oncoprotein c-Myc in the promoter for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) encoding RNA (EBER) 1 suggests a specific role for EBV in lymphomagenesis.
Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research - 1 Jan 2003
Niller Hans H, Salamon Daniel, Ilg Karin, Koroknai Anita, Banati Ferenc, Bauml Gerald, Rucker Ovidiu, Schwarzmann Fritz, Wolf Hans, Minarovits Janos
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BACKGROUND: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was isolated in the 1960s from the African childhood tumor, Burkitt's Lymphoma (BL), characterized by the translocation of the c-myc gene into one of the immunoglobulin loci. Due to the extreme discrepancy between the widespread dissemination of EBV infection and the overall rarity of EBV-related tumors, it remains an open question whether EBV is really a human tumor virus,...
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