Virally encoded interleukin-6 facilitates KSHV replication in monocytes and induction of dysfunctional macrophages

• Michiko Shimoda ,

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

  * E-mail: michiko.shimoda@ucsf.edu (MS); yizumiya@ucdavis.edu (YI)

  Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6627-4624

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• Tomoki Inagaki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2332-9895

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• Ryan R. Davis,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Alexander Merleev,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Clifford G. Tepper,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Emanual Maverakis,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Yoshihiro Izumiya

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

  * E-mail: michiko.shimoda@ucsf.edu (MS); yizumiya@ucdavis.edu (YI)

  Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9184-2603

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