The Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Permits Replication of Terminal Repeat-Containing Plasmids

AUTOR(ES)

Grundhoff, Adam

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

The latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus can associate with mitotic chromosomes and promote latent episome maintenance and segregation. Here we report that LANA also mediates the replication of plasmid DNAs bearing viral terminal repeats. The predicted secondary structure of LANA's C terminus reveals striking similarity to the known structure of the DNA-binding domain of Epstein-Barr virus EBNA1, despite the absence of primary sequence homology between these proteins, suggesting conservation of the key mechanistic features of latent gammaherpesvirus DNA replication.

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