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SUBMITTER: Wong LY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1262613 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wong Lai-Yee LY Wilson Angus C AC
Journal of virology 20051101 21
During latency, the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus genome is maintained as a circular episome, replicating in synchrony with host chromosomes. Replication requires the latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) and an origin of latent DNA replication located in the viral terminal repeats, consisting of two LANA binding sites (LBSs) and a GC-rich sequence. Here, we show that the recruitment of a LANA dimer to high-affinity site LBS-1 bends DNA by 57 degrees and towards the major groove. T ...[more]