Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction: definition and classification of the human herpesviruses
- Part II Basic virology and viral gene effects on host cell functions: alphaherpesviruses
- Part II Basic virology and viral gene effects on host cell functions: betaherpesviruses
- Part II Basic virology and viral gene effects on host cell functions: gammaherpesviruses
- 22 Introduction to the human γ-herpesviruses
- 23 Gammaherpesviruses entry and early events during infection
- 24 Gammaherpesvirus maintenance and replication during latency
- 25 Reactivation and lytic replication of EBV
- 26 Reactivation and lytic replication of KSHV
- 27 EBV gene expression and regulation
- 28 KSHV gene expression and regulation
- 29 Effects on apoptosis, cell cycle and transformation, and comparative aspects of EBV with other DNA tumor viruses
- 30 KSHV manipulation of the cell cycle and programmed cell death pathways
- 31 Human gammaherpesvirus immune evasion strategies
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: HSV-1 and HSV-2
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: VZU
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: HCMV
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: HHV- 6A, 6B, and 7
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: gammaherpesviruses
- Part IV Non-human primate herpesviruses
- Part V Subversion of adaptive immunity
- Part VI Antiviral therapy
- Part VII Vaccines and immunothgerapy
- Part VIII Herpes as therapeutic agents
- Index
- Plate section
- References
24 - Gammaherpesvirus maintenance and replication during latency
from Part II - Basic virology and viral gene effects on host cell functions: gammaherpesviruses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction: definition and classification of the human herpesviruses
- Part II Basic virology and viral gene effects on host cell functions: alphaherpesviruses
- Part II Basic virology and viral gene effects on host cell functions: betaherpesviruses
- Part II Basic virology and viral gene effects on host cell functions: gammaherpesviruses
- 22 Introduction to the human γ-herpesviruses
- 23 Gammaherpesviruses entry and early events during infection
- 24 Gammaherpesvirus maintenance and replication during latency
- 25 Reactivation and lytic replication of EBV
- 26 Reactivation and lytic replication of KSHV
- 27 EBV gene expression and regulation
- 28 KSHV gene expression and regulation
- 29 Effects on apoptosis, cell cycle and transformation, and comparative aspects of EBV with other DNA tumor viruses
- 30 KSHV manipulation of the cell cycle and programmed cell death pathways
- 31 Human gammaherpesvirus immune evasion strategies
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: HSV-1 and HSV-2
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: VZU
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: HCMV
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: HHV- 6A, 6B, and 7
- Part III Pathogenesis, clinical disease, host response, and epidemiology: gammaherpesviruses
- Part IV Non-human primate herpesviruses
- Part V Subversion of adaptive immunity
- Part VI Antiviral therapy
- Part VII Vaccines and immunothgerapy
- Part VIII Herpes as therapeutic agents
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Introduction
The human gammaherpesviruses Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) are associated with a variety of malignancies involving cells of various lineages.
After primary infection and initial viral propagation in epithelial and lymphoid cells, both viruses establish latency in a subset of CD 19 positive B-cells. In this often lifelong asymptomatic stage, in which EBV genomes are detectable primarily in resting memory B-cells, the number of infected cells is extremely low and virus load is tightly controlled by the host cellular and humoral immune response.
Loss of this balance leads to an increase in viral load, which often precedes the onset of malignant diseases. Both tissue involvement and histopathology are highly variable between EBV - and KSHV -associated malignancies and involve either lymphoid (Burkitt's lymphoma and primary effusion lymphoma), epithelial (nasopharyngeal carcinoma), or endothelial (Kaposi's sarcoma) tissues.
However, common to all gammaherpesvirus-associated tumors is that the majority of tumor cells are latently infected, and harbor extrachromosomal circularized viral genomes called episomes that are replicated and segregated by the host cellular replication machinery indefinitely. This ability to maintain long-term latent infection in quiescent and proliferating cells may be a defining property shared by both the lymphocryptoviruses (LCV, represented by EBV) and the rhadinoviruses (RDV, represented by KSHV).
This chapter aims to summarize our current understanding of the underlying mechanisms by which EBV and KSHV achieve long-term episomal maintenance in latently infected cells, which conceptually can be viewed as a two step process: replication of the viral genome and faithful segregation to daughter cells (Fig. 24.1).
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- Human HerpesvirusesBiology, Therapy, and Immunoprophylaxis, pp. 379 - 402Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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