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Isolation and Quantification of Epstein-Barr Virus from the P3HR1 Cell Line
Published on: September 28, 2022
Nuclear receptors and their role in Epstein -- Barr virus induced B cell transformation
S P Yenamandra1, G Klein, E Kashuba
1Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm S17177, Sweden.
Abstract:
Epstein - Barr virus (EBV) is a lymphotropic virus that infects more than 90% of the human population, and targets B cells for infection. Infection of human B cells leads to the malignant transformation and eventual immortalization. In latency III infection six EBV-encoded nuclear antigens (EBNAs) and three latent membrane proteins (LMPs) are expressed in the transformed cells that can grow as a lymphoblastoid cell lines in vitro . These proteins hijack the normal B cell growth pathways by activating the constitutive growth promotion and external survival signals. We have determined a set of the nuclear receptors that are up- (and down-) regulated in the latency III infected cells at the mRNA level. In the present paper we discussed the possible role of these receptors in B cell transformation upon EBV infection based on the literature data.
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