Male hormones activate EphA2 to facilitate Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection: Implications for gender disparity in Kaposi’s sarcoma

• Xing Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Wang, Zhe Zou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

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• Zhe Zou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Wang, Zhe Zou

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

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• Zhaohui Deng,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Hospital of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

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• Deguang Liang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

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• Xin Zhou,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Cancer Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

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• Rui Sun,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

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• Ke Lan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: klan@whu.edu.cn

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0384-8598

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