Kaposi's sarcoma-associated human herpesvirus-8 encodes homologues of macrophage inflammatory protein-1 and interleukin-6

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 287-292

  Nicholas, John ^a   Ruvolo, Vivian R ^a   Burns, William H ^c,d   Sandford, Gordon ^c,d   Wan, Xiaoyu ^a   Ciufo, Dolores ^a   Hendrickson, Sara B ^c,d   Guo, Hong Guang ^b   Hayward, Gary S ^a   Reitz, Marvin S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN-1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 16944362511     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0397-287     Document Type: Article

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