Identification of a spliced gene from Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus encoding a protein with similarities to latent membrane proteins 1 and 2A of Epstein …

M Glenn, L Rainbow, F Auradé, A Davison… - Journal of …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is a
novel herpesvirus implicated as the causative agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), primary …

Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus-Induced Upregulation of the c-kit Proto-Oncogene, as Identified by Gene Expression Profiling, Is Essential for the …

AV Moses, MA Jarvis, C Raggo, YC Bell, R Ruhl… - Journal of …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the most frequent malignancy afflicting AIDS patients, is
characterized by spindle cell formation and vascularization. Infection with KS-associated …

Induction of B Cell Hyperplasia in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus–Infected Rhesus Macaques with the Simian Homologue of Kaposi's Sarcoma–Associated …

SW Wong, EP Bergquam, RM Swanson… - The Journal of …, 1999 - rupress.org
A simian homologue of Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the eighth
human herpesvirus (HHV8), was isolated from a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) …

[HTML][HTML] The latency-associated nuclear antigen of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus modulates cellular gene expression and protects lymphoid cells from p16 …

FQ An, N Compitello, E Horwitz, M Sramkoski… - Journal of Biological …, 2005 - ASBMB
Latently infected Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes-virus (KSHV)-associated tumor cells
have both endothelial and lymphoid origins and express a limited set of latent viral genes …

Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus: a new DNA tumor virus

C Boshoff, Y Chang - Annual review of medicine, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a newly identified
gammaherpesvirus associated with all clinical forms of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), body-cavity …

A single 13-kilobase divergent locus in the Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) genome contains nine open reading frames that are …

J Nicholas, V Ruvolo, J Zong, D Ciufo, HG Guo… - Journal of …, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
Two small fragments of a novel human gammaherpesvirus genome known as Kaposi's
sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) have been shown to …

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

JT West, C Wood - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
The mechanisms that control the replication state, latency versus lytic, of human
herpesviruses have been under intense investigations. Here we summarize some of the …

Evidence for concurrent epidemics of human herpesvirus 8 and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in US homosexual men: rates, risk factors, and relationship to …

TR O'Brien, D Kedes, D Ganem… - The Journal of …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
We examined human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) seroprevalence and seroincidence among 245
homosexual men from New York City (NYC) and Washington, DC (DC) who have been …

γ-Interferon Produced by CD8+ T Cells Infiltrating Kaposi's Sarcoma Induces Spindle Cells With Angiogenic Phenotype and Synergy With Human Immunodeficiency …

V Fiorelli, R Gendelman… - Blood, The Journal …, 1998 - ashpublications.org
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an angioproliferative disease associated with infection by the
human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). HHV-8 possesses genes including homologs of interleukin-8 …

HIV infection and neoplasia

TF Schulz, CH Boshoff, RA Weiss - The Lancet, 1996 - thelancet.com
HIV infection predisposes to several neoplastic conditions, especially non-Hodgkin
lymphoma (NHL) and Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), and also intraepithelial cervical neoplasia …