Herpesviridae comprises over 120 viruses infecting a wide range of vertebrates including humans and livestock. Herpesvirus infections typically produce dermal lesions or immune cell destruction, but can also lead to oncogenesis, especially with KSHV (Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus). All herpesviruses are nuclear replicating viruses that subvert cellular processes such as nucleocytoplasmic transport for their advantage. For virus replication to take over the cell and produce lytic infection requires that virus gene expression outpace that of the host cell. KSHV ORF57 (open reading frame 57) appears to play a major role in this by (i) serving as a nuclear export receptor to carry intronless viral mRNAs out of the nucleus and (ii) inhibiting expression of intron-containing host mRNAs. As most of the virally encoded mRNAs are intronless compared with host cell mRNAs, these two mechanisms are critical to overcoming host gene expression.
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October 25 2006
The Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ORF57 protein: a pleurotropic regulator of gene expression
P. Malik;
P. Malik
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1The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, U.K.
1To whom correspondence should be addressed (email p.malik@ed.ac.uk).
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E.C. Schirmer
E.C. Schirmer
1The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, U.K.
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
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August 11 2006
Online ISSN: 1470-8752
Print ISSN: 0300-5127
© 2006 The Biochemical Society
2006
Biochem Soc Trans (2006) 34 (5): 705–710.
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P. Malik, E.C. Schirmer; The Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ORF57 protein: a pleurotropic regulator of gene expression. Biochem Soc Trans 1 October 2006; 34 (5): 705–710. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0340705
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