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Research from the United States and Portugal add new data to herpes body of knowledge

Published in Lab Business Week, May 21st, 2006

New findings from the United States and Portugal describe advances in herpes.

Study 1: Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus interferon regulatory factor 1 inhibits the ATM/p53 signal transduction pathway.

"Infected cells recognize viral replication as a DNA damage stress and elicit the ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM)/p53-mediated DNA damage response signal transduction pathway as part of the host surveillance mechanisms, which ultimately induces the irreversible cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.

"Viruses have evolved a variety of mechanisms to counteract this host intracellular innate immunity. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated...

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