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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2016

KSHV Genome Replication and Maintenance.

Pravinkumar Purushothaman, Prerna Dabral, Namrata Gupta, Roni Sarkar, Subhash C Verma

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 100 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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pravinkumar PurushothamanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV, USA.
Prerna DabralDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV, USA.
Namrata GuptaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV, USA.
Roni SarkarDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV, USA.
Subhash C VermaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV, USA.
University of Nevada, Reno · US

Funding

KSHV Lytic DNA Replication and its Control MechanismR01AI105000 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI VERMA, SUBHASH C · 2013 to 2017
$1.8M
KSHV Genome Replication during Primary InfectionR01CA174459 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI VERMA, SUBHASH C · 2013 to 2017
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA174459NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI105000
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) is a major etiological agent for multiple severe malignancies in immune-compromised patients. KSHV establishes lifetime persistence in the infected individuals and displays two distinct life cycles, generally a prolonged passive latent, and a short productive or lytic cycle. During latent phase, the viral episome is tethered to the host chromosome and replicates once during every cell division. Latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) is a predominant multifunctional nuclear protein expressed during latency, which plays a central role in episome tethering, replication and perpetual segregation of the episomes during cell division. LANA binds cooperatively to LANA binding sites (LBS) within the terminal repeat (TR) region of the viral episome as well as to the cellular nucleosomal proteins to tether viral episome to the host chromosome. LANA has been shown to modulate multiple cellular signaling pathways and recruits various cellular proteins such as chromatin modifying enzymes, replication factors, transcription factors, and cellular mitotic framework to maintain a successful latent infection. Although, many other regions within the KSHV genome can initiate replication, KSHV TR is important for latent DNA replication and possible segregation of the replicated episomes. Binding of LANA to LBS favors the recruitment of various replication factors to initiate LANA dependent DNA replication. In this review, we discuss the molecular mechanisms relevant to KSHV genome replication, segregation, and maintenance of latency.

Indexed as

KSHVLANAlatencyLBSori-Aori-Ppre-RCreplication

Identifiers

PMID26870016
PMCPMC4740845
OpenAlexW2266716435

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