KSHV infection of endothelial precursor cells with lymphatic characteristics as a novel model for translational Kaposi’s sarcoma studies

• Krista Tuohinto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Krista Tuohinto, Terri A. DiMaio

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Translational Cancer Medicine Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Terri A. DiMaio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Krista Tuohinto, Terri A. DiMaio

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Elina A. Kiss,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Translational Cancer Medicine Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Pirjo Laakkonen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Translational Cancer Medicine Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Laboratory Animal Center, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Pipsa Saharinen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Translational Cancer Medicine Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Wihuri Research Institute, Biomedicum Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Tara Karnezis,

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

  Affiliation Gertrude Biomedical Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Michael Lagunoff ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lagunoff@uw.edu (ML); paivi.ojala@helsinki.fi (PMO)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5840-6175

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• Päivi M. Ojala

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lagunoff@uw.edu (ML); paivi.ojala@helsinki.fi (PMO)

  Affiliation Translational Cancer Medicine Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9065-1832

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