Strategies for human tumor virus discoveries: From microscopic observation to digital transcriptome subtraction

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Mirvish, Ezra D ^a   Shuda, Masahiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital transcriptome subtraction; History; Merkel cell polyomavirus; Methods; Tumor virus discoveries

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

BURKITT LYMPHOMA; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER MODEL; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; T CELL LEUKEMIA; TUMOR VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84973483876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00676     Document Type: Review

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