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
30 - KSHV manipulation of the cell cycle and programmed cell death pathways
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
Disruptions of cell cycle and apoptotic regulatory control are primary hallmarks tumor cells. It is therefore not surprising that Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8), a tumor virus, encodes viral proteins targeting these cell growth regulation mechanisms. The extent and range of KSHV genes devoted to manipulating these processes is, however, remarkable.
As described in previous chapters, herpesviral structural and replication-related genes are highly conserved among the herpesviruses, including KSHV. In contrast, regulatory genes generating proteins that modify the cellular environment – particularly during latency – are generally unique to each virus. As will become evident in this chapter, even though KSHV and EBV are closely related to each other, there are few sequence homologies among the oncogenes and non-structural regulatory genes found in the two viruses. Despite this, there is a striking functional similarity between the two viruses (Table 30.1). EBV encodes multiple highly evolved transcription factors and signaling proteins that induce many of the same cellular genes that KSHV has pirated into its genome. Further, once herpesvirus targeting of a cellular pathway has been found for one herpesvirus (e.g., HSV-1 downregulation of MHC I surface expression, Hill et al., 1994), searching for functional similarities among other herpesviruses has been particularly rewarding (e.g., Coscoy et al., 2000). It is therefore not surprising that KSHV and EBV share pathways for cell transformation although they achieve this through very different mechanisms.
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- Human HerpesvirusesBiology, Therapy, and Immunoprophylaxis, pp. 540 - 558Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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