“…Tax HTLV-1 regulates the expression of several cellular genes, including genes encoding cytokines (interleukin-2 (IL-2)), cytokine receptors (a chain of IL-2 receptor), and proto-oncogenes (c-fos, c-jun, fra-1, c-myc) (Cross et al, 1987;Ballard et al, 1988;Fujii et al, 1988Fujii et al, , 1991Tsuchiya et al, 1993;Semmes et al, 1996). Tax HTLV-1 targets regulators of cell cycle progression and apoptosis such as cyclin D2, cyclin-dependent kinase (cdk) 4, cdk6, the INK4 family of cdk inhibitors, Bcl-x L , Bax, DNA polymerase b, p53, caspase-8, and caspase-3 (Jeang et al, 1990;Suzuki et al, 1996;Brauweiler et al, 1997;Neuveut et al, 1998;Schmitt et al, 1998;Kawakami et al, 1999;Santiago et al, 1999;Pise-Masison et al, 2000;Mori et al, 2001). Mechanistically, Tax HTLV-1 was found to act essentially through CREB/ATF and NFkB signaling pathways (Sun and Ballard, 1999).…”