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 expressionGenes