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Inhibition of LSD1 reduces herpesvirus infection, shedding, and recurrence by promoting epigenetic suppression of viral genomes.
Science translational medicine - 3 Dec 2014
Hill James M, Quenelle Debra C, Cardin Rhonda D, Vogel Jodi L, Clement Christian, Bravo Fernando J, Foster Timothy P, Bosch-Marce Marta, Raja Priya, Lee Jennifer S, Bernstein David I, Krause Philip R, Knipe David M, Kristie Thomas M
Abstract excerpt
Herpesviruses are highly prevalent and maintain lifelong latent reservoirs, thus posing challenges to the control of herpetic disease despite the availability of antiviral pharmaceuticals that target viral DNA replication. The initiation of herpes simplex virus infection and reactivation from latency is dependent on a transcriptional coactivator complex that contains two required histone demethylases, LSD1...
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