Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
(Philadelphia, PA) Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a link between a critical cancer pathway and an Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) protein known to be expressed in a number of EBV-associated cancers. Their findings demonstrate a new mechanism by which EBV transforms human B cells from the immune system into cancerous cells, which can lead to development...Epstein-Barr virus contributes to Burkitt's lymphoma
MADISON - Most people may associate Epstein-Barr virus with infectious mononucleosis, but the tumor virus also has been implicated in at least five kinds of human cancer. The cancers include Burkitt's lymphoma--a malignancy endemic in African children--lymphomas in AIDS patients and one half of all Hodgkin's disease cases. ... ...In the Nov. 5, 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science...Scientists find protein in Epstein-Barr virus causes B cell lymphoma in laboratory mice
. CHAPEL HILL - Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel.Hill, working with colleagues in Japan, have proven that a protein called latent.membrane protein 1 in Epstein-Barr virus causes a form of cancer known as B cell.lymphoma in mice.. The work is important, the scientists say, because it shows the.protein's central role in Epstein-Barr virus' ability to change n...