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Faculty Detail     Name MARY BALLESTAS   Campus Address CHB 148 Zip 0011 Phone 205-996-6082 E-mail marybb@uab.edu Other websites

Faculty Appointment(s) Appointment Type Department Division Rank Primary  Pediatrics   Ped - Infectious Disease Assistant Professor Center  Center for AIDS Research  Center for AIDS Research Assistant Professor Center  Comprehensive Cancer Center  Comprehensive Cancer Center Assistant Professor Center  General Clinical Research Center  Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Assistant Professor

Society Memberships Organization Name Position Held Org Link AAAS      ASM

Selected Publications  Publication PUBMEDID M. E. Ballestas and K. M. Kaye. The Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen, a Multifunctional Protein Central to Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latency, Future Microbiology, 2011; 6 (12) 1399-1413.   22122438  Sabarish V. Indran, Mary E. Ballestas, and William J. Britt. Bicaudal D1-Dependent Trafficking of Human Cytomegalovirus Tegument Protein pp150 in Virus Infected Cells. J Virol, 2010; 84 (7): 3162- 77.   20089649  B. Kelley-Clarke, M. E. Ballestas, V. Srinivasan, A. J. Barbera, T. Komatsu, T.-A. Harris, M. Kazanjian, and K.M. Kaye. Determination of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus C-terminal latency-associated nuclear antigen residues mediating chromosome association and DNA binding. J Virology, 2007; 81 (8) 4348-56.   17287261  V. Alexiadis, M. E. Ballestas, C. Sanchez, S. Winokur, V. Vedanarayanan, M. Warren, and M. Ehrlich. RNA Ploymerase Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Analysis of Transcription from Muscular Dystrophy- Linked Tandem Repeats and Satellite DNA, Biochimica and Biophsica Acta-Gene Structure and Expression, 2007; 1769: 29-40.   17239456  B. Kelley-Clarke*, M. E. Ballestas*, T. Komatsu, and K. M. Kaye. Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus C- terminal LANA concentrates at pericentromeric and peri-telomeric regions of a subset of mitotic chromosomes. Virology, 2007; 357(2) 149-157, (*contributed equally). PMID: .  16979209  J. You, V. Srinivasan, G. Denis, W.J. Harrington Jr, M.E. Ballestas, K.M. Kaye, and P.M. Howley. The Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen Interacts with Bromodomain Protein Brd4 on Host Mitotic Chromosomes, J Virology, 2006; 80(18):8909-19.   16940503  V. Srinivasan, T. Komatsu, M. E. Ballestas, and K. M. Kaye. Definition of sequence requirements for latency-associated nuclear antigen 1 binding to Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus DNA, J Virology, 2004; 78(24):14033-8.   15564510  T. Komatsu, M. E. Ballestas, A. J. Barbera and K. M. Kaye. KSHV LANA1 binds DNA as an oligomer and residues N-terminal to the oligomerization domain are essential for DNA binding, replication and episome persistence, Virology, 2004; 319(2):225-36.   14980483  A. J. Barbera, M. E. Ballestas, and K. M. Kaye. The Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen 1 N-terminus is Critical for Chromosome Association, DNA Replication, and Episome Persistence, J Virology, 2004; 78(1):294-301.  14671111  M. E. Ballestas and K. M. Kaye. The Latency Associated Nuclear Antigen Mediates Episome Persistence Through Cis-acting Terminal Repeat Sequence, J Virol, 2000; 75: 3250-3258   11238851  First Prev   1 2 of  2  Next Last

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