DNA Tumor Viruses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pipas, James. (Editor), Damania, Blossom. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Human genetics.; Microbiology.; Medical virology.; Cytology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Human Genetics.; Virology.; Medical Microbiology.; Cell Biology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68945-6

The DNA tumor viruses are central to many branches of molecular and cellular biology. This very diverse group of viruses attack common cellular pathways, which makes them powerful tools for understanding how multiple complex pathways are integrated. Additionally, the unique mechanisms employed by ea...

Table of Contents:

• The polymaviral lifecylce
• transformation by polyomaviruses
• association of BK and JC Human polyomaviruses and SV40 with disease/cancer
• recent advances in polyomaviruses
• the papillomavirus lifecycle
• transformation by papillomaviruses
• association of HPV strains with human cancer
• introduction to lage DNA tumor viruses (EBV and KSHV)
• Epstein-Barr Virus Clinical Disease
• EBV Viral Epidemiology
• The EBV Viral Genome
• Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Lifecycle
• Epstein Barr Virus Lytic Lifecycle
• EBV Transformation
• Epstein-Barr Virus Viral Entry
• primate models for EBV
• KSHV Clinical Disease
• KSHV Viral Genome
• KSHV Viral latent lifecycle
• KSHV Viral lytic lifecycle
• KSHV Transformation
• KSHV Viral entry
• KSHV immune evasion
• Primate models for KSHV
• EBV and KSHV miRNAs
• MHV68 as a mouse model for gammaherpesviruses
• develpoment of vaccines against the gammaherpesviruses.