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ArticleJournal of virology2011

A new model of Epstein-Barr virus infection reveals an important role for early lytic viral protein expression in the development of lymphomas.

Shi-Dong Ma, Subramanya Hegde, Ken H Young, Ruth Sullivan, Deepika Rajesh, Ying Zhou, Ewa Jankowska-Gan, William J Burlingham, Xiaoping Sun, Margaret L Gulley and 3 more

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Article in Journal of virology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 192 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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192citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

192 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 273 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Shi-Dong MaUniversity of Wisconsin, Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Subramanya Hegde
Ken H Young
Ruth Sullivan
Deepika Rajesh
Ying Zhou
Ewa Jankowska-Gan
William J Burlingham
Xiaoping Sun
Margaret L Gulley
Weihua Tang
Jenny E Gumperz
Shannon C Kenney
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USU-M Rogel Cancer Center

Funding

UW COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER SUPPORTP30CA014520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI AMY TRENTHAM-DIETZ · 1985 to 2026
$142.6M
REGULATION OF THE EBV BRLF1 AND BZLF1 PROMOTERSR01CA058853 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KENNEY, SHANNON CELESTE · 1993 to 2013
$3.9M
GENE THERAPY FOR AIDS RELATED CNS LYMPHOMASR01CA066519 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KENNEY, SHANNON CELESTE · 1995 to 2012
$3.7M
Functional analysis of human NKT cells and myeloid DCs within murine SCID hostsR21AI076707 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI GUMPERZ, JENNY E. · 2009 to 2010
$371k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014520NCI NIH HHS R01 CA058853NCI NIH HHS R01 CA066519NCI NIH HHS R01-CA58853NCI NIH HHS R01-CA66519NCI NIH HHS R21-CA12643NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI076707
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects cells in latent or lytic forms, but the role of lytic infection in EBV-induced lymphomas is unclear. Here, we have used a new humanized mouse model, in which both human fetal CD34(+) hematopoietic stem cells and thymus/liver tissue are transplanted, to compare EBV pathogenesis and lymphoma formation following infection with a lytic replication-defective BZLF1-deleted (Z-KO) virus or a lytically active BZLF1(+) control. Both the control and Z-KO viruses established long-term viral latency in all infected animals. The infection appeared well controlled in some animals, but others eventually developed CD20(+) diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCL). Animals infected with the control virus developed tumors more frequently than Z-KO virus-infected animals. Specific immune responses against EBV-infected B cells were generated in mice infected with either the control virus or the Z-KO virus. In both cases, forms of viral latency (type I and type IIB) were observed that are less immunogenic than the highly transforming form (type III) commonly found in tumors of immunocompromised hosts, suggesting that immune pressure contributed to the outcome of the infection. These results point to an important role for lytic EBV infection in the development of B cell lymphomas in the context of an active host immune response.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, CD34Cell LineDisease Models, AnimalEpstein-Barr Virus InfectionsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHerpesvirus 4, HumanHumansLiver TransplantationLymphoma, B-CellMiceMice, KnockoutThymus GlandT-LymphocytesTrans-ActivatorsTransplantation, HeterologousAntigens, CD34BZLF1 protein, Herpesvirus 4, HumanTrans-ActivatorsViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID20980506
PMCPMC3014199
OpenAlexW1977809195

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