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Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), also called human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8), is the eighth human herpesvirus found by Yuan Chang and Patrick Moore, 1992. It is a Rhadinovirus belonging to the gamma herpesvirus subfamily. As known for many gamma herpesviruses, KSHV is also well-correlated to several cancer formations such as Kaposi’s sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and multicentric Castleman’s disease. Different from the other herpesvirus subfamily, gamma herpesviruses establish latency as a default infection strategy when they infect to the target cells, as KSHV is present as the latent form in the related cancers. In the latency, the virus expresses a limited number of the genes such as latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA), v-cyclin (v-CYC, ORF72), v-FLIP (K13), kaposin (K12), and 25 microRNAs (K-miRNAs). The virus replicates according to cellular replication machinery with a viral replication origin (ori-P) and LANA. Then, the replicated genome is segregated equally to daughter cells by appearance to maintain the virus genome copy number per cell. The virus makes the most use of cellular machinery to achieve this end. In this chapter, I would like to review KSHV replication and gene expression in the latency and discuss.
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Ueda, K. (2018). KSHV Genome Replication and Maintenance in Latency. In: Kawaguchi, Y., Mori, Y., Kimura, H. (eds) Human Herpesviruses. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1045. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7230-7_14
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