Sperm associated antigen 9 promotes oncogenic KSHV-encoded interferon regulatory factor-induced cellular transformation and angiogenesis by activating the JNK/VEGFA pathway

• Wan Li,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Gynecology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Fei Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Jiale Shi,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Qi Feng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Yuheng Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xiaoyu Qi,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Cong Wang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Hongmei Lu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhongmou Lu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Xuemei Jia,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Gynecology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Qin Yan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

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• Shou-Jiang Gao,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Chun Lu

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

  * E-mail: clu@njmu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Department of Gynecology, Women’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6078-9352

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