AUTONOMOUSLY REPLICATING KSHV CIS-ACTING ELEMENTS

摘要

This invention provides methods of reducing a replication of a gammaherpesvirus genome, treating a KSHV infection, and treating or reducing an incidence of a KSHV-associated disease, comprising contacting a subject with a composition that inhibits initiation of DNA replication from a region of a genome of a gammaherpesvirus. The invention also provides isolated DNA molecules capable of episomal replication in a eukaryotic cell, and methods of delivering a recombinant protein or therapeutic RNA molecule, comprising same.