Cellular Tropism and Viral Interleukin-6 Expression Distinguish Human Herpesvirus 8 Involvement in Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Primary Effusion Lymphoma, and Multicentric Castleman’s Disease
Staskus K, Sun R, Miller G, Racz P, Jaslowski A, Metroka C, Brett-Smith H, Haase A. Cellular Tropism and Viral Interleukin-6 Expression Distinguish Human Herpesvirus 8 Involvement in Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Primary Effusion Lymphoma, and Multicentric Castleman’s Disease. Journal Of Virology 1999, 73: 4181-4187. PMID: 10196314, PMCID: PMC104197, DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.5.4181-4187.1999.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsViral gene expressionMulticentric Castleman's diseasePrimary effusion lymphomaLevel of expressionCell typesGene expressionViral genesKaposi's sarcomaInfected cell typesLytic cycle viral gene expressionHeterogeneous cell typesCastleman's diseaseInterleukin-6Lytic cycle genesEffusion lymphomaHuman immunodeficiency virus-positive individualsPathogenesis of PELPredominant infected cell typeHuman herpesvirus 8 infectionViral homologueVirus-positive individualsVIL-6B cell growthAltered expressionGenesKinetics of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Gene Expression
Sun R, Lin S, Staskus K, Gradoville L, Grogan E, Haase A, Miller G. Kinetics of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Gene Expression. Journal Of Virology 1999, 73: 2232-2242. PMID: 9971806, PMCID: PMC104468, DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.3.2232-2242.1999.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHerpesvirus gene expressionKaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirusSarcoma-associated herpesvirusGene expressionLytic cycleEarly genesVIL-6Cell linesKSHV DNA replicationG protein-coupled receptorsProtein-coupled receptorsSingle-cell assaysPrimary effusion lymphoma cell linesImmediate early genesPAN RNADNA replicationEpstein-Barr virus BZLF1Nuclear RNALate genesBovine herpesvirus 4KS biopsiesPEL cell linesVBcl-2Positional homologueKinetic classes