This work was supported by the National "863" Program (Grant No. G0208070599); the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 990470) ;and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30070697).
The function and usage of vMIPα encoded by K6 gene of herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) which has homology with human macrophage protein (MIP) have not been clearly known. In the present note the K6 gene of HHV8 was cloned and tr...