While confirming the long held view that “viruses do not closely imitate the use of the [host’s] ... codon catalogue” (Grantham et al., 1986), it is nevertheless considered a “surprising finding” that “despite having the ability to infect the same host, many mycobacteriophages share little or no genetic similarity” (i.e. similarity in their “GC contents and codon utilization patterns;” Esposito...

UNLABELLED Latent Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) genomes encode a homolog of cellular FLICE-inhibitory proteins (termed v-FLIP) that activates NF-κB and can trigger important proinflammatory and antiapoptotic changes in latently infected cells. The protein is present at very low levels in infection and has generally been difficult to efficiently express in recombinant vectors. H...