Merkel cell polyomavirus strains in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 960-962

  Touzé, Antoine ^a,b   Gaitan, Julien ^a,b   Maruani, Annabel ^b,c   Le Bidre, Emmanuelle ^b,c   Doussinaud, Angélique ^a,b   Clavel, Christine ^a,d   Durlach, Anne ^a,d   Aubin, François ^e   Guyétant, Serge ^b,c   Lorette, Gérard ^b,c   Coursaget, Pierre ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^d REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; PROTEIN VP1; PROTEIN VP2;

ARTICLE; FRANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYOMA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSID PROTEINS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MERKEL CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 67449089774     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1506.081463     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Parkin DM. The global health burden of infection-associated cancers in the year 2002. Int J Cancer. 2006;118:3030-3044 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21731
2. Feng H, Shuda M, Chang Y, Moore PS. Clonal integration of a polyomavirus in human Merkel cell carcinoma. Science. 2008;319:1096-1100 DOI: 10.1126/science.1152586 (Pubitemid 351300792)
3. Dörries K. Molecular biology and pathogenesis of human polyomavirus infections. Dev Biol Stand. 1998;94:71-79
4. zur Hausen H. Novel human polyomaviruses: re-emergence of a well known virus family as possible human carcinogens. Int J Cancer. 2008;123:247-250 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23620
5. Greer CE, Wheeler CM, Manos MM. Sample preparation and PCR amplification from paraffin-embedded tissues. PCR Methods Appl. 1994;3:S113-22. (Pubitemid 24211993)
6. Garneski KM, Warcola AH, Feng Q, Kiviat NB, Leonard JH, Nghiem P. Merkel cell polyomavirus is more frequently present in North American than Australian Merkel cell carcinoma tumors. J Invest Dermatol. 2009;129:246-248 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2008.229
7. Ridd K, Yu S, Bastian BC. The presence of polyomavirus in non-melanoma skin cancer in organ transplant recipients is rare. J Invest Dermatol. 2009;129:250-252 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2008.215
8. Becker JC, Houben R, Ugurel S, Trefzer U, Pföhler C, Schrama D. MC polyomavirus is frequently present in Merkel cell carcinoma of European patients. J Invest Dermatol. 2009;129:248-250 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2008.198
9. Kassem A, Schöpflin A, Diaz C, Weyers W, Stickeler E, Werner M, et al. Frequent detection of Merkel cell polyomavirus in human Merkel cell carcinomas and identification of a unique deletion in the VP1 gene. Cancer Res. 2008;68:5009-13. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472. CAN-08-0949
10. Shuda M, Feng H, Kwun HJ, Rosen ST, Gjoerup O, Moore PS, et al. T antigen mutations are a human tumor-specific signature for Merkel cell polyomavirus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008;105:16272-16277 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806526105
11. Scherneck S, Delmas V, Vogel F, Feunteun J. Induction of lymphomas by the hamster papovavirus correlates with massive replication of nonrandomly deleted extrachromosomal viral genomes. J Virol. 1987;61:3992-3998 (Pubitemid 18011502)
12. Foulongne V, Kluger N, Dereure O, Brieu N, Guillot B, Segondy M. Merkel cell polyomavirus and Merkel cell1 carcinoma, France. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008;14:1491-1493 DOI: 10.3201/eid1409.080651