The role of gammaherpesviruses in cancer pathogenesis

HC Jha, S Banerjee, ES Robertson - Pathogens, 2016 - mdpi.com
Worldwide, one fifth of cancers in the population are associated with viral infections. Among
them, gammaherpesvirus, specifically HHV4 (EBV) and HHV8 (KSHV), are two oncogenic …

KSHV LANA—the master regulator of KSHV latency

T Uppal, S Banerjee, Z Sun, SC Verma, ES Robertson - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV), like other human herpes viruses,
establishes a biphasic life cycle referred to as dormant or latent, and productive or lytic …

Mitotic spindle disruption by alternating electric fields leads to improper chromosome segregation and mitotic catastrophe in cancer cells

M Giladi, RS Schneiderman, T Voloshin, Y Porat… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) are low intensity, intermediate frequency,
alternating electric fields. TTFields are a unique anti-mitotic treatment modality delivered in a …

Polyploid giant cancer cells, a hallmark of oncoviruses and a new therapeutic challenge

G Herbein, Z Nehme - Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tumors are renowned as intricate systems that harbor heterogeneous cancer cells with
distinctly diverse molecular signatures, sizes and genomic contents. Among those various …

Adaptation to spindle assembly checkpoint inhibition through the selection of specific aneuploidies

MAY Adell, TC Klockner, R Höfler… - Genes & …, 2023 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Both the presence of an abnormal complement of chromosomes (aneuploidy) and an
increased frequency of chromosome missegregation (chromosomal instability) are …

[HTML][HTML] Cullin-RING Ligase 5: Functional characterization and its role in human cancers

Y Zhao, X Xiong, Y Sun - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Cullin-RING ligase 5 (CRL5) is a multi-protein complex and consists of a scaffold
protien cullin 5, a RING protein RBX2 (also known as ROC2 or SAG), adaptor proteins …

[HTML][HTML] Expression and prognosis analyses of BUB1, BUB1B and BUB3 in human sarcoma

Z Long, T Wu, Q Tian, LA Carlson, W Wang… - Aging (Albany NY …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Budding Uninhibited By Benzimidazoles are a group of genes encoding proteins
that play central roles in spindle checkpoint during mitosis. Improper mitosis may lead to …

Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus genome persistence

F Juillard, M Tan, S Li, KM Kaye - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) has an etiologic role in Kaposi's sarcoma,
primary effusion lymphoma, and multicentric Castleman's disease. These diseases are most …

GNA14, GNA11, and GNAQ mutations are frequent in benign but not malignant cutaneous vascular tumors

P Jansen, H Müller, GC Lodde, A Zaremba… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cutaneous vascular tumors consist of a heterogeneous group of benign proliferations,
including a range of hemangiomas and vascular malformations, as well as heterogeneous …

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 …