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A virus-encoded telomerase RNA promotes malignant T cell lymphomagenesis.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 15 May 2006
Trapp Sascha, Parcells Mark S, Kamil Jeremy P, Schumacher Daniel, Tischer B Karsten, Kumar Pankaj M, Nair Venugopal K, Osterrieder Nikolaus
Abstract excerpt
Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex consisting of two essential core components: a reverse transcriptase and an RNA subunit (telomerase RNA [TR]). Dysregulation of telomerase has been associated with cell immortalization and oncogenesis. Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDV) induces a malignant T cell lymphoma in chickens and harbors in its genome two identical copies of a viral TR (vTR) with 88% sequence...
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