Graft-to-host transmission of herpes simplex virus - myth or reality?
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Herpes simplex virus eliminates host mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondria have crucial roles in the life and death of mammalian cells, and help to orchestrate host antiviral defences. Here, we show that the ubiquitous human pathogen herpes simplex virus (HSV) induces rapid and complete degradation of host mitochondrial DNA during productive infection of cultured mammalian cells. The depletion of mitochondrial DNA requires the viral UL12 gene, which encod...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Ophthalmologica
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1755-375X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2011.02192.x