MyBioSource.com's HHV-8 Antibody is a Mouse monoclonal antibody.
Description
Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpes virus is the eighth human herpes virus; its formal name according to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses is HHV-8. This virus causes Kaposi's Sarcoma, a cancer commonly occurring in AIDS patients, as well as Primary Effusion Lymphoma and some types of Multicentric Castleman's Disease.
Latent nuclear antigen (LNA-1, LNA, LANA-1), also known as ORF73, is a 222- or 234 kDa protein that is consistently expressed in HHV-8 infected cells. Anti-HHV-8 labels the latent nuclear antigen protein vial immunohistochemistry