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Cell-cycle-dependent EBNA1-DNA crosslinking promotes replication termination at oriP and viral episome maintenance.
Cell - 4 Feb 2021
Dheekollu Jayaraju, Wiedmer Andreas, Ayyanathan Kasirajan, Deakyne Julianna S, Messick Troy E, Lieberman Paul M
Abstract excerpt
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an oncogenic human herpesvirus that persists as a multicopy episome in proliferating host cells. Episome maintenance is strictly dependent on EBNA1, a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein with no known enzymatic activities. Here, we show that EBNA1 forms a cell cycle-dependent DNA crosslink with the EBV origin of plasmid replication oriP. EBNA1 tyrosine 518 (Y518) is essential for...
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