Herpesvirus saimiri as a model for gammaherpesvirus oncogenesis.

Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri.

The agent also resembles the saimiri virus, a member of the herpes family that causes lymphoma in New World monkeys.

Classification of herpesvirus saimiri into three groups based on extreme variation in a DNA region required for oncogenicity.

They are found in Herpesvirus saimiri which is responsible for aggressive T-cell leukemias in primates.

Direct binding and activation of STAT transcription factors by the herpesvirus saimiri protein Tip.

Rhadinoviruses have been found in New World monkeys such as the squirrel monkeys (herpesvirus saimiri) and in mice (murine gammaherpesvirus-68).

He specialized in investigating the neural basis of behavior in freely behaving squirrel monkeys ('Saimiri sciureus'), using radio-controlled electrical brain stimulation.

The Central American Squirrel Monkey is placed in genus Saimiri (Voigt, 1831) along with all the other squirrel monkey species.

Herpesvirus saimiri expresses several non-coding RNAs (HSURs) which have been found to significantly reduce the level of mir-27 in a host cell.

The herpes saimiri virus, which is harmless in squirrel monkeys, quickly produces cancers of the lymph and blood system after being injected into owl monkeys and other species.

They lived in trees and apparently moved on top of tree limbs by a combination of quadrupedalism and leaping, much as do living squirrel monkeys of the genus Saimiri.

HSURs (Herpesvirus saimiri U RNAs) are viral small regulatory RNAs.

The binomial name Saimiri oerstedii was given by Johannes Theodor Reinhardt in honor of his fellow Danish biologist Anders Sandøe Ørsted.

Known as CTLA8 in rodents, IL-17 shows high homology to viral IL-17 encoded by an open reading frame of the T-lymphotropic rhadinovirus Herpesvirus saimiri.

However, if the Herpes saimiri also carries an APC gene into normal cells it will have no effect because these cells already have a normal APC gene.

Maurus M, Streit KM, Barclay D, Wiesner E, Kuehlmorgen B. Interrelations between structure and function in the vocal repertoire of Saimiri.

T cells transformed by the primate virus Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) have been shown to express viral U-rich noncoding RNAs called HSURs.

In viruses, like Saimiriine herpesvirus 2 (Herpesvirus saimiri) and Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8/Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus) cyclin D homologues have acquired new functions in order to manipulate the host cell's metabolism to the viruses' benefit.