| Literature DB >> 12857925 |
Cary A Moody1, Rona S Scott, Tao Su, John W Sixbey.
Abstract
Reiterated terminal sequences of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA are numerically heterogeneous among infectious virions, providing a viral measure of clonality in infected cells. After in vitro infection, carcinoma cells bearing EBV episomes with fewer terminal repeats (TRs) proliferated faster. In single-cell clones, TR number varied inversely to the quantity of latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) transcripts whose unspliced precursors cross joined TRs. Thus, EBV clonality may reflect selection for a TR number that optimizes LMP2A-enhanced tumor progression, with infection occurring after epithelial cell transformation.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12857925 PMCID: PMC165260 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.15.8555-8561.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103