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The Epstein-Barr virus-associated protein p105 is not encoded by the Epstein-Barr virus genome
1School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City 64110-2499.
Virology
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
Rabbit antibodies made to an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated hydrophobic protein p105 that cross-reacts antigenically with the herpes simplex virus glycoprotein gB inhibited the ability of EBV to induce immunoglobulin synthesis by normal B cells. Sequencing of p105 indicated that it was a keratin-like protein and not encoded by EBV. Analysis of EBV-producing cells with and without mycoplasma indicated that p105 is probably a mycoplasma protein that associates with the EBV virion.