Varios virus do cancro, como o virus de Epstein-Barr e herpesvirus asociados ao sarcoma de Kaposi, mantéñense latentes, como episomas cromosomicamente diferenciados en células cancerosas, onde os virus expresan oncoxenes que promoven a proliferación da célula cancerosa.
Several cancer viruses, including Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, are maintained as latent, chromosomally distinct episomes in cancer cells, where the viruses express oncogenes that promote cancer cell proliferation.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix