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Herpesviruses in the Activated Phosphatidylinositol-3-Kinase-δ Syndrome.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2018
Cohen Jeffrey I
Abstract excerpt
The phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway is important for multiple stages of herpesvirus replication including virus entry, replication, latency, and reactivation. Recently, patients with gain-of-function mutations in the p110δ-catalytic subunit of PI3K or in the p85-regulatory subunit of PI3K have been reported. These patients have constitutively active PI3K with hyperactivation of Akt. They present...
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