Adult T-cell leukemia: molecular basis for clonal expansion and transformation of HTLV-1–infected T cells

T Watanabe - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is an aggressive T-cell malignancy caused by human T-cell
leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) that develops through a multistep carcinogenesis process …

[HTML][HTML] HTLV-1 infection: An emerging risk. Pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis and associated diseases

E Eusebio-Ponce, E Anguita… - Revista Española de …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ABSTRACT The Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) affects up to 10 million
people worldwide. It is directly associated to one of the most aggressive T cell malignancies …

HTLV-1 infection promotes excessive T cell activation and transformation into adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma

BJY Tan, K Sugata, O Reda, M Matsuo… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) mainly infects CD4+ T cells and induces
chronic, persistent infection in infected individuals, with some developing adult T cell …

Human T cell leukemia virus type 1: persistence and pathogenesis

CRM Bangham - Annual review of immunology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), also known as human T lymphotropic virus
type 1, was the first exogenous human retrovirus discovered. Unlike the distantly related …

Mechanisms of oncogenesis by HTLV-1 Tax

S Mohanty, EW Harhaj - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
The human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the etiological agent of adult T-cell
leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), a neoplasm of CD4+ CD25+ T cells that occurs in 2–5% of …

More than just oncogenes: mechanisms of tumorigenesis by human viruses

MM Gaglia, K Munger - Current opinion in virology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Viral infections cause approximately 12% of all human cancers.•Viral cancers
represent rare outcomes of frequent infections.•Oncogenicity of viral proteins reflects their …

HTLV-1, the other pathogenic yet neglected human retrovirus: from transmission to therapeutic treatment

N Futsch, R Mahieux, H Dutartre - Viruses, 2017 - mdpi.com
Going back to their discovery in the early 1980s, both the Human T-cell Leukemia virus type-
1 (HTLV-1) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type-1 (HIV-1) greatly fascinated the …

Human retroviral antisense mRNAs are retained in the nuclei of infected cells for viral persistence

G Ma, J Yasunaga, K Shimura… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Human retroviruses, including human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and HIV type 1
(HIV-1), encode an antisense gene in the negative strand of the provirus. Besides coding for …

Identification and characterization of a novel enhancer in the HTLV-1 proviral genome

M Matsuo, T Ueno, K Monde, K Sugata… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is an oncogenic virus with constantly active
antisense transcription from the proviral genome. Here, Matsuo et al. perform proviral DNA …

Evolution of retrovirus-infected premalignant T-cell clones prior to adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma diagnosis

AG Rowan, R Dillon, A Witkover… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is an aggressive hematological malignancy caused
by human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1). ATL is preceded by decades of chronic …