A tumor-specific endogenous repetitive element is induced by herpesviruses

Tandem satellite repeats account for 3% of the human genome. One of them, Human Satellite II (HSATII), is highly expressed in several epithelial cancers and cancer cell lines. Here we report an acute induction of HSATII RNA in human cells infected with two herpes viruses. We show that human cytomega...

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Published in:Nature communications Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 90 - 13
Main Authors: Nogalski, Maciej T., Solovyov, Alexander, Kulkarni, Anupriya S., Desai, Niyati, Oberstein, Adam, Levine, Arnold J., Ting, David T., Shenk, Thomas, Greenbaum, Benjamin D.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 09.01.2019
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ISSN:2041-1723, 2041-1723
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