Glucose metabolism and oxygen availability govern reactivation from latency of the human retrovirus HTLV-1

The human retrovirus HTLV-1 causes a haematological malignancy or neuroinflammatory disease in ~10% of infected individuals. HTLV-1 primarily infects CD4+ T-lymphocytes and persists as a provirus integrated in their genome. HTLV-1 appears transcriptionally latent in freshly-isolated cells; however,...

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Main Authors: Kulkarni, A, Mateeus, M, Thinnes, C, McCullagh, J, Schofield, C, Taylor, G, Bangham, C
Format: Journal article
Published: Cell Press 2017