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The Immunogenic Glycoprotein gp35-37 of Human Herpesvirus 8 Is Encoded by Open Reading Frame K8.1
1 Aug 1998
Abstract excerpt
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and body cavity-based lymphomas (BCBLs). The HHV-8 genome is primarily in a latent state in BCBL-derived cell lines like BCBL-1, but lytic replication can be induced by phorbol esters (R. Renne, W. Zhang, B. Herndier, M. McGrath, N. Abbey, D. Kedes, and D. E. Ganem, Nat. Med. 2:342-346, 1996). A 35- to 37-kDa...
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