High-resolution analysis of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus in Merkel Cell Carcinoma reveals distinct integration patterns and suggests NHEJ and MMBIR as underlying mechanisms

• Manja Czech-Sioli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manja Czech-Sioli, Thomas Günther

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Thomas Günther ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Manja Czech-Sioli, Thomas Günther

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-0218

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• Marlin Therre,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Michael Spohn,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9160-4157

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• Daniela Indenbirken,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Juliane Theiss,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Sabine Riethdorf,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Tumorbiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0028-5643

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• Minyue Qi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4823-3439

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• Malik Alawi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Corinna Wülbeck,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Translational skin cancer research, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Irene Fernandez-Cuesta,

  Roles Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Nanostructure- and Solid State Physics (INF), Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Franziska Esmek,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Nanostructure- and Solid State Physics (INF), Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Jürgen C. Becker,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Translational skin cancer research, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Adam Grundhoff ,

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

  * E-mail: adam.grundhoff@leibniz-hpi.de (AG); nfischer@uke.de (NF)

  Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0940-7045

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• Nicole Fischer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: adam.grundhoff@leibniz-hpi.de (AG); nfischer@uke.de (NF)

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5092-8179

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