Merkel cell polyomavirus is a passenger virus in both poroma and porocarcinoma.

Anna-Stiina MeriläinenHarri Jaakko Sihto Virve S K Koljonen

Published in: Journal of cutaneous pathology (2021)

The low number of viral DNA copies in poroma and porocarcinoma samples, together with the negative LT expression of MCPyV DNA-positive tumors, indicates that MCPyV is simply a passenger virus rather than an oncogenic driver of porocarcinoma.

Keyphrases

circulating tumor
cell free
single molecule
poor prognosis
single cell
sars cov
cell therapy
transcription factor
nucleic acid
stem cells
binding protein
disease virus