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Rad51 activates polyomavirus JC early transcription.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
White Martyn K, Kaminski Rafal, Khalili Kamel, Wollebo Hassen S
Abstract excerpt
The human neurotropic polyomavirus JC (JCV) causes the fatal CNS demyelinating disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). JCV infection is very common and after primary infection, the virus is able to persist in an asymptomatic state. Rarely, and usually only under conditions of immune impairment, JCV re-emerges to actively replicate in the astrocytes and oligodendrocytes of the brain causing PML....
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