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Abstract
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is able to infect primary B-lymphocytes but usually does not proceed to replicate more virions. Instead, EBV persists as an incomplete virus and expresses 12 gene products that transform the growth of these cells into continuously proliferating lymphoblastoid cell lines. Because EBV is associated with several human malignancies, there is intense interest in delineating the molecular functions of these EBV gene products in transformation. This review focuses on the recombinant EBV technologies that have been developed to introduce specific mutations into EBV and test the functions of these EBV genes in primary B-lymphocyte growth transformation. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11669602 DOI: 10.1006/scbi.2001.0407
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Semin Cancer Biol ISSN: 1044-579X Impact factor: 15.707