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Transfection host.
It is also a practical source of KSHV DNA to be used as a positive control for screening tests.
BC-1 is a lymphoma cell line originated in 1992 by Ethel Cesarman and Giorgio Inghirami in the laboratory of Daniel M. Knowles.
The cells were derived from an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) related body cavity based lymphoma presenting as a primary lymphomatous effusion in the peritoneal cavity.
The cells contain two viral genomes: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV, provisionally designed HHV-8).
KSHV is a recently identified and largely uncharacterized virus.
The BC-1 cell line allows in vitro culture of KSHV viral genomes.
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