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
26 - Reactivation and lytic replication of KSHV
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
Overview: goals of lytic replication
Herpesviruses are extremely successful pathogens that have coevolved with their mammalian hosts over the past 60–80 million years (McGeoch and Davison, 1999). This success likely is attributable to the ability of the Herpesviridae to establish lifelong latent infections of their host. Latently infected cells provide a perpetual reservoir from which progeny viruses can be amplified for dissemination within the host and transmission between hosts. Herpesvirologists have traditionally used the term “lytic reactivation” to describe the biological events that begin with emergence of a virus from latency and end with lysis of the host cell and release of progeny virions. Clinico-epidemiologic studies suggest that lytic reactivation of KSHV is an essential pathogenic step in multiple human diseases. The goal of this chapter is to review the host–virus interactions that are critical for regulating induction of KSHV from latency, subsequent progression through the lytic cycle, replication of the viral genome, and assembly of mature viral particles.
Lytic reactivation of KSHV is a critical pathogenic step in development of KS and other human diseases
Numerous epidemiologic studies unanimously agree that reactivation of KSHV from latency is a critical pathogenic step during the progression to KS. Serologic assays (Gao et al., 1996a; Kedes et al., 1996; Martin et al., 1998; Simpson et al., 1996) demonstrate that primary infection by KSHV typically occurs at least 10 years prior to clinically apparent KS in AIDS patients (Martin et al., 1998).
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- Human HerpesvirusesBiology, Therapy, and Immunoprophylaxis, pp. 434 - 460Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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