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Shannon C. Kenney is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions to Oncology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Rheumatology. Their work centers on viral-associated cancers and disorders alongside lymphoma diagnosis and treatment.

Their research explores various aspects of viral infections and their link to cancer biology, including immune cell function and interaction as well as the study of viruses like cytomegalovirus, herpesvirus, and parvovirus B19. RNA modifications and their connections to cancer are also among the topics covered in Kenney's publications.

Kenney has published extensively, with key papers including:

  • "Epstein-Barr virus: Biology and clinical disease" (2022) in Cell
  • "B cells infected with Type 2 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) have increased NFATc1/NFATc2 activity and enhanced lytic gene expression in comparison to Type 1 EBV infection" (2020) in PLoS Pathogens
  • "EBNA2-deleted Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) isolate, P3HR1, causes Hodgkin-like lymphomas and diffuse large B cell lymphomas with type II and Wp-restricted latency types in humanized mice" (2020) in PLoS Pathogens
  • "Hippo signaling effectors YAP and TAZ induce Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) lytic reactivation through TEADs in epithelial cells" (2021) in PLoS Pathogens
  • "Epstein-Barr virus LMP1 protein promotes proliferation and inhibits differentiation of epithelial cells via activation of YAP and TAZ" (2023) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Elizabeth Holley-Guthrie, Makoto Ohashi, Eric Johannsen, Jillian A. Bristol, and Scott E. Nelson. These collaborations have contributed to the depth and breadth of knowledge reflected across their joint publications.

Kenney's work is regularly published in several prominent venues, with numerous contributions to UNC Libraries and PLoS Pathogens, as well as publications in Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

The combination of topics addressed in their research spans viral-associated cancers and disorders, lymphoma diagnosis and treatment, eosinophilic disorders and syndromes, immune cell function and interaction, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, parvovirus B19 infection studies, and RNA modifications related to cancer.

Best Publications

  • Immediate-early gene region of human cytomegalovirus trans-activates the promoter of human immunodeficiency virus.

    Michelle G. Davis;Shannon C. Kenney;James Kamine;Joseph S. Pagano

  • Functional and physical interaction between p53 and BZLF1: implications for Epstein-Barr virus latency.

    Qin Zhang;D. Gutsch;S. Kenney

  • Reactivation of Latent Epstein–Barr Virus by Methotrexate: A Potential Contributor to Methotrexate-Associated Lymphomas

    Wen Hai Feng;Jeffrey I. Cohen;Steven Fischer;Li Li

  • Epstein-Barr viral latency is disrupted by the immediate-early BRLF1 protein through a cell-specific mechanism

    Sunita Zalani;Elizabeth Holley-Guthrie;Shannon Kenney

  • Epstein-Barr Virus Immediate-Early Protein BZLF1 Is SUMO-1 Modified and Disrupts Promyelocytic Leukemia Bodies

    Amy L. Adamson;Shannon Kenney

  • A New Model of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection Reveals an Important Role for Early Lytic Viral Protein Expression in the Development of Lymphomas

    Shi Dong Ma;Subramanya Hegde;Ken H. Young;Ruth Sullivan

  • Lytic Induction Therapy for Epstein-Barr Virus-Positive B-Cell Lymphomas

    Wen Hai Feng;Gregory Hong;Henri Jacques Delecluse;Shannon C. Kenney

  • Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Infection Contributes to Lymphoproliferative Disease in a SCID Mouse Model

    Gregory K. Hong;Margaret L. Gulley;Wen Hai Feng;Henri Jacques Delecluse

  • The EBV lytic switch protein, Z, preferentially binds to and activates the methylated viral genome.

    Prasanna M. Bhende;William T. Seaman;Henri Jacques Delecluse;Shannon C. Kenney

  • Regulation of the latent-lytic switch in Epstein–Barr virus

    Shannon C. Kenney;Janet E. Mertz

  • Epstein-Barr Virus Immediate-Early Proteins BZLF1 and BRLF1 Activate the ATF2 Transcription Factor by Increasing the Levels of Phosphorylated p38 and c-Jun N-Terminal Kinases

    Amy L. Adamson;Dayle Darr;Elizabeth Holley-Guthrie;Robert A. Johnson

  • The Epstein-Barr virus BMLF1 promoter contains an enhancer element that is responsive to the BZLF1 and BRLF1 transactivators.

    Shannon Kenney;Elizabeth Holley-Guthrie;Eng-Chun Mar;Marilyn Smith

  • The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) BMRF1 promoter for early antigen (EA-D) is regulated by the EBV transactivators, BRLF1 and BZLF1, in a cell-specific manner.

    E A Holley-Guthrie;E B Quinlivan;E C Mar;S Kenney

  • Chemotherapy induces lytic EBV replication and confers ganciclovir susceptibility to EBV-positive epithelial cell tumors.

    Wen Hai Feng;Bruce Israel;Nancy Raab-Traub;Pierre Busson

  • EBNA-2 transactivates a lymphoid-specific enhancer in the BamHI C promoter of Epstein-Barr virus.

    N S Sung;S Kenney;D Gutsch;J S Pagano

  • Inhibition of IFN-γ Signaling by an Epstein-Barr Virus Immediate-Early Protein

    Thomas E Morrison;Amy Mauser;Athena Wong;Jenny P.-Y Ting

  • The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) BZLF1 immediate-early gene product differentially affects latent versus productive EBV promoters.

    S. Kenney;J. Kamine;E. Holley-Guthrie;Jung-Chung Lin

  • Activation of Lytic Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Infection by Radiation and Sodium Butyrate in Vitro and in Vivo: A Potential Method for Treating EBV-positive Malignancies

    Eva M. Westphal;William Blackstock;Wenhai Feng;Bruce Israel

  • Direct BRLF1 binding is required for cooperative BZLF1/BRLF1 activation of the Epstein-Barr virus early promoter, BMRF1

    E.Byrd Quinlivan;Elizabeth A. Holley-Guthrie;Melanie Norris;David Gutsch

  • The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-Encoded Protein Kinase, EBV-PK, but Not the Thymidine Kinase (EBV-TK), Is Required for Ganciclovir and Acyclovir Inhibition of Lytic Viral Production

    Qiao Meng;Stacy R. Hagemeier;Joyce D. Fingeroth;Edward Gershburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph S. Pagano
Joseph S. Pagano University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Henri Jacques Delecluse
Henri Jacques Delecluse Grenoble Alpes University
Jenny E. Gumperz
Jenny E. Gumperz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Janet E. Mertz
Janet E. Mertz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul F. Lambert
Paul F. Lambert University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas E. Morrison
Thomas E. Morrison University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Nancy Raab-Traub
Nancy Raab-Traub University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gianpietro Dotti
Gianpietro Dotti University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barbara Savoldo
Barbara Savoldo University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William J. Burlingham
William J. Burlingham University of Wisconsin–Madison

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