Evidence map›Paper›PMID 12910252›Full record

ReviewOncogene2003

The role of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus-8 regulator of transcription activation (RTA) in control of gene expression.

John T West, Charles Wood

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Review in Oncogene, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John T WestNebraska Center for Virology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1901 Vine Street, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Charles Wood
University of Nebraska–Lincoln · US

Funding

VIRAL SHUTOFF OF HOST TRANSCRIPTION--PBCV-1 INFECTEDP20RR015635 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI WOOD, CHARLES · 2000 to 2009
$22.1M
KAPOSIS SARCOMA AND HUMAN HERPESVIRUS IN AFRICAR01CA075903 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI WOOD, CHARLES · 1998 to 2015
$11.1M
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HIV AND KSHVR01CA076958 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI WOOD, CHARLES · 1998 to 2001
$434k
NCI NIH HHS CA75903NCI NIH HHS CA76958NCRR NIH HHS RR15635
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mechanisms that control the replication state, latency versus lytic, of human herpesviruses have been under intense investigations. Here we summarize some of the recent findings that help define such mechanisms for Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus type 8 (KSHV/HHV-8). For HHV-8, the viral regulator of transcription activation (RTA) is a key mediator of the switch from latency to lytic gene expression in infected cells. RTA is necessary and sufficient to drive HHV-8 lytic replication and the production of viral progeny. The RTA is an immediate-early gene product, it is the initial activator of expression of a multitude of viral and cellular genes that have been implicated in the replication of HHV-8 and pathogenesis of KS. Interactions of RTA with a number of viral promoters, and with a number of transcription factors or transcriptional co-activators are highlighted. Modulation of transactivation, through alternate RTA-protein, or RTA-promoter interactions, is hypothesized to participate in the selective tissue tropism and differential pathogenesis observed in KS.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene Expression Regulation, ViralTranscriptional ActivationHerpesvirus 8, HumanHumansInterleukin-6Membrane ProteinsModels, BiologicalModels, GeneticOpen Reading FramesPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingProtein Structure, TertiaryReceptors, NotchRNA, MessengerInterleukin-6Membrane ProteinsReceptors, NotchRNA, Messenger

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PMID12910252
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