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Rearranged JC Virus Noncoding Control Regions Found in Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Patient Samples Increase Virus Early Gene Expression and Replication Rate
5 Aug 2010
Abstract excerpt
Polyomavirus JC (JCV) infects ∼ 60% of the general population, followed by asymptomatic urinary shedding in ∼ 20%. In patients with pronounced immunodeficiency, including HIV/AIDS, JCV can cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a devastating brain disease of high mortality. While JCV in the urine of healthy people has a linear noncoding control region called the archetype NCCR (at-NCCR), JCV in...
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