Conquering the host: determinants of pathogenesis learned from murine gammaherpesvirus 68

Y Wang, SA Tibbetts, LT Krug - Annual review of virology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Gammaherpesviruses are an important class of oncogenic pathogens that are exquisitely
evolved to their respective hosts. As such, the human gammaherpesviruses Epstein-Barr …

Vital for viruses: intrinsically disordered proteins

HJ Dyson - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Viruses infect all kingdoms of life; their genomes vary from DNA to RNA and in size from 2kB
to 1 MB or more. Viruses frequently employ disordered proteins, that is, protein products of …

STAT6 inhibits ferroptosis and alleviates acute lung injury via regulating P53/SLC7A11 pathway

Y Yang, Y Ma, Q Li, Y Ling, Y Zhou, K Chu, L Xue… - Cell death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Compelling evidences have revealed the emerging role of ferroptosis in the
pathophysiological process of acute lung injury (ALI), but its modulation is not clear. Here …

Deciphering the PTM codes of the tumor suppressor p53

J Wen, D Wang - Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The genome guardian p53 functions as a transcription factor that senses numerous cellular
stresses and orchestrates the corresponding transcriptional events involved in determining …

Deciphering the acetylation code of p53 in transcription regulation and tumor suppression

Z Xia, N Kon, AP Gu, O Tavana, W Gu - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Although it is well-established that p53-mediated tumor suppression mainly acts through its
ability in transcriptional regulation, the molecular mechanisms of this regulation are not …

The role of viruses in HIV-associated lymphomas

K Lurain, R Ramaswami, R Yarchoan - Seminars in hematology, 2022 - Elsevier
Lymphomas are among the most common cancers in people with HIV (PWH). The
lymphoma subtypes and pathogenesis of lymphoma in PWH are different from the …

Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus latency-associated nuclear antigen: More than a key mediator of viral persistence

TF Schulz, A Freise, SC Stein - Current Opinion in Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), or human herpesvirus-8, is an oncogenic
herpesvirus. Its latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) is essential for the persistence of …

Antibody epitope profiling of the KSHV LANA protein using VirScan

SJ Bennett, D Yalcin, SR Privatt, O Ngalamika… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The humoral antibody response against Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) in
infected individuals has been characterized demonstrating the latency-associated nuclear …

Sirtuin 2 promotes human cytomegalovirus replication by regulating cell cycle progression

CN Betsinger, JL Justice, MD Tyl, JE Edgar… - Msystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ability to modulate host cell cycle progression is a requirement of many human viruses
in order to facilitate their replication and propagation. Nuclear-replicating DNA viruses …

Intrinsic p53 activation restricts gammaherpesvirus driven germinal center B cell expansion during latency establishment

SM Owens, JM Sifford, G Li, SJ Murdock… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Gammaherpesviruses are DNA tumor viruses that establish lifelong latent infections in
lymphocytes. For viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus and murine gammaherpesvirus 68, this …