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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 

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