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Makoto Fukuda1, Yasushi Kawaguchi.
Abstract
Latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is widely expressed in EBV-associated malignancies. We demonstrate that LMP2A has a transformation ability. This study shows that LMP2A-induced transformation in several human nonhematopoietic cell lines was blocked in those cells expressing an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM) LMP2A mutant. The Syk inhibitor or Syk-specific small interfering RNA (siRNA) inhibited LMP2A-induced transformation. These results indicate that the interaction of the LMP2A ITAM with Syk is a key step for LMP2A-mediated transformation.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24554661 PMCID: PMC3993816 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03714-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103