Journal
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 372, Issue 1732, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0276
Keywords
Merkel cell polyomavirus; Merkel cell carcinoma; T-antigen
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- U.S. Public Health Service [R01CA63113, R01CA173023, P01CA050661]
- DFCI Helen Pappas Merkel Cell Research Fund
- Claudia Adams Barr Program in Cancer Research
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Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) causes the highly aggressive and relatively rare skin cancer known as Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). MCPyV also causes a lifelong yet relatively innocuous infection and is one of 14 distinct human polyomaviruses species. Although polyomaviruses typically do not cause illness in healthy individuals, several can cause catastrophic diseases in immunocompromised hosts. MCPyV is the only polyomavirus clearly associated with human cancer. How MCPyV causes MCC and what oncogenic events must transpire to enable this virus to cause MCC is the focus of this essay. This article is part of the themed issue 'Human oncogenic viruses'.
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