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Journal of Virology, February 2003, p. 2779-2783, Vol. 77, No. 4
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.4.2779-2783.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Permits Replication of Terminal Repeat-Containing Plasmids

Adam Grundhoff and Don Ganem*

Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94143-0414

Received 26 September 2002/ Accepted 18 November 2002

The latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus can associate with mitotic chromosomes and promote latent episome maintenance and segregation. Here we report that LANA also mediates the replication of plasmid DNAs bearing viral terminal repeats. The predicted secondary structure of LANA's C terminus reveals striking similarity to the known structure of the DNA-binding domain of Epstein-Barr virus EBNA1, despite the absence of primary sequence homology between these proteins, suggesting conservation of the key mechanistic features of latent gammaherpesvirus DNA replication.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94143-0414. Phone: (415) 476-2826. Fax: (415) 476-0939. E-mail: ganem{at}cgl.ucsf.edu.


Journal of Virology, February 2003, p. 2779-2783, Vol. 77, No. 4
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.4.2779-2783.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.




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