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The SV40 virus enhancer functions as a somatic hypermutation-targeting element with potential tumorigenic activity.
Tumour virus research - 1 Dec 2024
Šenigl Filip, Soikkeli Anni I, Prost Salomé, Schatz David G, Slavková Martina, Hejnar Jiří, Alinikula Jukka
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Simian virus 40 (SV40) is a monkey virus with tumorigenic potential in rodents and is associated with several types of human cancers, including lymphomas. A related Merkel cell polyomavirus causes carcinoma in humans by expressing truncated large tumor antigen (LT), with truncations caused by APOBEC family of cytidine deaminase-induced mutations. AID (activation-induced cytidine deaminase), a member of the APOBEC...
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