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HTLV-1 intragenic viral enhancer influences immortalization phenotype in vitro, but is dispensable for persistence and disease development in animal models.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2022
Maksimova Victoria, Smith Susan, Seth Jaideep, Phelps Cameron, Niewiesk Stefan, Satou Yorifumi, Green Patrick L, Panfil Amanda R
Abstract excerpt
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the causative infectious agent of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) and chronic neurological disease. The disparity between silenced sense transcription versus constitutively active antisense (Hbz) transcription from the integrated provirus is not fully understood. The presence of an internal viral enhancer has recently been discovered in the Tax gene near the 3'...
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