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Cellular FLIP can substitute for the herpes simplex virus type 1 latency-associated transcript gene to support a wild-type virus reactivation phenotype in mice.
Journal of neurovirology - 1 Oct 2008
Jin Ling, Carpenter Dale, Moerdyk-Schauwecker Megan, Vanarsdall Adam L, Osorio Nelson, Hsiang Chinhui, Jones Clinton, Wechsler Steven L
Abstract excerpt
Latency-associated transcript (LAT) deletion mutants of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) have reduced reactivation phenotypes. Thus, LAT plays an essential role in the latency-reactivation cycle of HSV-1. We have shown that LAT has antiapoptosis activity and demonstrated that the chimeric virus, dLAT-cpIAP, resulting from replacing LAT with the baculovirus antiapoptosis gene cpIAP, has a wild-type HSV-1...
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