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List of XMRV Research Studies

Bob

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This list was last refreshed on 1st August 2011.

I've aimed to make this a comprehensive list, hopefully including all of the high profile studies relating to XMRV/CFS, but there maybe studies that I've overlooked.

Any suggestions for additional info, corrections and improvements are very welcome.


Within each category, the papers are listed in order of the date of publication.


Contents:

XMRV in CFS Patients - Published positive studies
PMRV in CFS Patients - Published positive studies
XMRV in CFS Patients - unpublished positive studies abstracts & reports
XMRV in CFS Patients - future studies
Other published positive XMRV studies (Not CFS or Prostate cancer)
Other unpublished positive XMRV & PMRV studies (Not CFS or Prostate cancer)
XMRV/Human DNA integration papers
Conferences - and lists of abstracts
Investigative XMRV studies
XMRV & CFS Patients - Published negative studies
Inconclusive studies & studies that add some knowledge about XMRV
Overviews of XMRV research
Reviews
Letters to Scientific Journals
Blood Related Studies & Reviews
Patents applied for
Positive XMRV Prostate Cancer studies
Unpublished Positive XMRV Prostate Cancer studies
Inconclusive & No Association XMRV Prostate Cancer studies (Some XMRV detected)
Negative XMRV Prostate Cancer Studies (No XMRV detected)
Negative XMRV studies other
Contamination studies and theories
Papers that provide evidence against contamination theories
MLV Recombination Theory studies
Other negative studies (Not CFS or Prostate cancer)
Science Journal editorial Expression of Concern.
Historical research looking at MLV-related viruses associated with human disease
Antiretroviral Research
Related/Relevant HIV Research
Related/Relevant HTLV Research
Other research related to XMRV/CFS
XMRV Sequences in genbank
Other information
Comparison Tables XMRV research studies
Conference Abstracts (A small selection of abstracts)
Student Theses relating to XMRV
Other resources




XMRV in CFS Patients - Published positive studies

Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Vincent C. Lombardi, Francis W. Ruscetti, Jaydip Das Gupta, Max A. Pfost, Kathryn S. Hagen, Daniel L. Peterson, Sandra K. Ruscetti, Rachel K. Bagni, Cari Petrow-Sadowski, Bert Gold, Michael Dean, Robert H. Silverman, and Judy A. Mikovits
Published Online 8 October 2009
Published in Science 23 October 2009
Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5952/585.abstract
Addendum:
http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/virulence/MikovitisVIRU1-5.pdf
Supplementary material:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20842203




PMRV in CFS Patients - Published positive studies

Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors
Shyh-Ching Lo, Natalia Pripuzova, Bingjie Li, Anthony L. Komaroff, Guo-Chiuan Hung, Richard Wang, and Harvey J. Alter
Published online before print August 23, 2010
PNAS
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/08/16/1006901107.full.pdf+html
Results: 86.5% in CFS patients. 6.8% in healthy volunteer blood donors.




XMRV in CFS Patients unpublished positive studies abstracts & reports

Anything other studies to add here?

Detection of infectious XMRV in the peripheral blood of children
M A Pfost et al.
(WPI)
Looking for XMRV in families and testing: adults with ME, FM, Lymme disease; Parents of children with neuroimmune disease; children with ASD; children with Niemann-Pick; and healthy children with sibling who have neuroimmune disease. Positive results obtained.
http://regist2.virology-education.com/abstractbook/2010_8.pdf
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-data-comparison.pdf

Detection of infectious XMRV in the peripheral blood of chronic fatigue syndrome patients in the United Kingdom.

Mikovits et al.
(WPI)
Initial results reported to be about 80% positive for XMRV in UK ME patients, and 6-8% positive in the UK blood supply.
http://regist2.virology-education.com/abstractbook/2010_8.pdf
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-data-comparison.pdf

XMRV detection in a national practice specializing in CFS
P Cheney
Using the VIPdx lab, 74.5% of consecutive ME patients, who went to the Cheney Clinic, tested positive for XMRV.
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-data-comparison.pdf

Detection of MLV-like gag sequences in blood samples from a New York state CFS cohort
Maureen R Hanson, Li L Lee, Lin Lin, David E Bell, David Ruppert and David S Bell
Initial reported results = 80% of 10 patients currently meeting Fukuda criteria tested positive for MLV-related sequences, and 1% of healthy controls. (Reportedly finding PMRV rather than XMRV.)
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-data-comparison.pdf
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-report.pdf
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1742-4690-8-S1-full.pdf
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/S1/A234
An extract from:
Of Mice and Men: A Summary of the First International XMRV Workshop.
by K. Kimberly McCleary with Steven H. Kleinman, BSc, MD, and Suzanne D. Vernon, PhD.
Dr. Hansons study tested samples obtained by David S. Bell from 20 CFS patients, 10 of whom reported having recovered but still demonstrated lower physical activity levels than the 10 healthy control subjects as measured by seven instruments employed by Dr. Bell. Of these 20 CFS patients, 11 (55%) were positive; 8 (80%) of the 10 patients currently meeting Fukuda criteria and 3 (30%) of the individuals who had recovered tested positive, compared to 1 (10%) of the 10 healthy controls. The gag sequences found by Dr. Hanson were more similar to those reported by Lo et al., than to the gag sequences for XMRV, although all are part of the same gammaretrovirus family. Her group is working to sequence the env sequence and the entire virus genome(s) now that they have external funding support from NIH.

http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-report.pdf

Kenny De Meirlier
Blinded study, using the VIPdx to test for XMRV
Initial reported results = XMRV detected in 57% of 84 CFS patients, and in 14% of 50 healthy donors.
http://www.investinme.org/IiME Conf...onal ME Conference 2011 Conference Report.htm

Wilfried Bieger (Germany)
Reported positive study, to be published sometime in 2011.
Detecting XMRV in 20% to 40% of 110 CFS patient samples.
http://www.investinme.org/IiME Conf...onal ME Conference 2011 Conference Report.htm
http://www.facebook.com/notes/xmrv-...-40-of-a-cohort-of-110-peop/10150253684766797




XMRV in CFS Patients - Future studies

The Norwegian study of CFS, NO-CFS, Stage 1: Confirmatory study for the detection on Gamma-retrovirus related Gene Sequences.
http://esme-eu.com/news/the-norwegi...irus-related-gene-sequences-article487-7.html
http://lhkpasientfora.org/wp-conten...krivelse_eng_NO_CFS_stage-one_XMRV-study1.pdf

Blood Working Group
link to info needed

Ian Lipkin
link to info needed

Dr. Frank Maldarelli
NIH - National Cancer Institute
The study will take blood samples from 60 people, divided equally between people who previously tested XMRV-positive and healthy individuals.
The data will be used to help formulate a gold standard for determining positive and negative results.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/blogs/wo...b-7981-56f2-b829-af35a545728e.html?mode=print




Other published positive XMRV studies (Not CFS or Prostate cancer)

Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virusrelated Gammaretrovirus in Respiratory Tract
Nicole Fischer, Claudia Schulz, Kristin Stieler, Oliver Hohn, Christoph Lange, Christian Drosten, and Martin Aepfelbacher
June 2010
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Jun; DOI: 10.3201/eid1606.100066
http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/6/1000.htm
(We detected XMRV in respiratory secretions of immunocompetent patients with and without RTI at a frequency of ?3.2%, which is in good concordance with the recently reported prevalence in the general population of up to 4%)

The Prevalence of XMRV in Healthy Blood Donors in Japan
XMRV reportedly found in 1.7% of random healthy blood donor samples from the blood supply in Japan, testing for antibodies only. (This was a study of blood bank samples and prostate cancer patients, not ME patients.)
"Although our study had a limited sample size, the prevalence among blood donors as determined by identifying XMRV-specific antibodies was found to be 1.7%, while that among prostate cancer patients was found to be 6.3%"
(Publication status unknown to me)
http://www.diagnosesupport.com/heal...ted-virus-in&catid=132:xmrv-research&Itemid=8




Other unpublished positive XMRV & PMRV studies (Not CFS or Prostate cancer)

Detection of infectious XMRV in the peripheral blood of children
M A Pfost et al. (WPI)
Looking for XMRV in families and testing: adults with ME, FM, Lymme disease; Parents of children with neuroimmune disease; children with ASD; children with Niemann-Pick; and healthy children with sibling who have neuroimmune disease. Positive results obtained.
http://regist2.virology-education.com/abstractbook/2010_8.pdf
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-data-comparison.pdf

Compositions And Methods Relating To Xmrv-Related Diseases And Conditions
Singh, Ila Ramnaresh; (US). Thaker, Harshwardhan Manohar; (US). Schlaberg, Robert; (US). Shin, Clifford; (US)
The University Of Utah Research Foundation
(XMRV in breast cancer)
Patent:
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/WO2010132886
Info:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/xmrv-...s-on-xmrv-breast-cancer-prostate/472237776796
XMRV proviral DNA sequences or XMRV proteins were detected in approximately 25% of 178 breast cancer samples.



XMRV/Human DNA integration papers

Integration Site Preference of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus, a New Human Retrovirus Associated with Prostate Cancer
Sanggu Kim, Namshin Kim, Beihua Dong, David Boren, Serena A. Lee, Jaydip Das Gupta, Christina Gaughan, Eric A. Klein, Christopher Lee, Robert H. Silverman, and Samson A. Chow
3 August 2008
Journal Of Virology, Oct. 2008
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/82/20/9964

Multiple Integrated Copies and High-Level Production of the Human Retrovirus XMRV (Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus) from 22Rv1 Prostate Carcinoma Cells
Emily C. Knouf, Michael J. Metzger, Patrick S. Mitchell, Jason D. Arroyo, John R. Chevillet,
Muneesh Tewari, and A. Dusty Miller*
23 April 2009
Journal Of Virology, July 2009,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704771/pdf/0546-09.pdf

Fidelity of target site duplication and sequence preference during integration of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus.
Kim S, Rusmevichientong A, Dong B, Remenyi R, Silverman RH, Chow SA
April 20, 2010
PloS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010255

Deciphering the Code for Retroviral Integration Target Site Selection
Federico Andrea Santoni, Oliver Hartley, Jeremy Luban
November 24, 2010
PLoS Computational Biology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991247/pdf/pcbi.1001008.pdf

Analysis of XMRV integration sites from human prostate cancer tissues suggests PCR contamination rather than genuine human infection.
Garson JA, Kellam P, Towers GJ.
25 February 2011
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/1/13



Conferences - and lists of abstracts

CROI 2010 - 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
February 16-19, 2010
XMRV related abstracts:
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/croi-2010.asp
Program:
http://zika.retroconference.org/croi-2010-pocket-program.pdf

12th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies (ICMAOI)
NCI. NIH. Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy.
26-27 April 2010
http://www.capconcorp.com/meeting/12thICMAOI/agenda.asp
http://oham.cancer.gov/objects/pdf/2010ICMAOI_Program_Book.pdf

1st International Workshop on XMRV
The abstracts of the 1st International Workshop on XMRV are published in Reviews in Antiviral Therapy & Infectious Diseases 2010_8
7-8th September 2010
http://www.virology-education.com/i...erial/vid/1A5D65BD-FB8B-8AE1-5E10829372D080B4
Official Abstract Book:
http://regist2.virology-education.com/abstractbook/2010_8.pdf
List of Abstracts:
http://www.mecfsforums.com/wiki/Abstracts_from_1st_International_Workshop_on_XMRV
Oral and Poster presentations Table of results:
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-data-comparison.pdf

CROI 2011 - 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Feb 27 - 2nd March 2011
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/croi-2011.asp
http://www.retroconference.org/2011/data/files/ProgramAtAGlance_11.pdf

American Urological Association meeting
April 2011
The Journal of Urology
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01618-1/fulltext
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01208-0/fulltext
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)00620-3/fulltext

NIH State Of Knowledge (SOK) Workshop - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Research
April 7-8, 2011
Website:
http://orwh.od.nih.gov/CSF 2011/newsEvents.htm
Agenda:
http://orwh.od.nih.gov/SOK AGENDA - Final.pdf
Video - Day 1
http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?16575
Video - Day 2:
http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?16571

American Urological Association meeting
April 2011
The Journal of Urology
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01618-1/fulltext
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01208-0/fulltext
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)00620-3/fulltext

Invest in ME Conference 2011 (No abstracts presented)
The 6th Invest in ME International ME/CFS Conference 2011
20th May 2011
Conference Report by Rosamund Vallings of the Associated New Zealand ME Society:
http://www.investinme.org/IiME Conf...onal ME Conference 2011 Conference Report.htm

15th International Conference on Human Retrovirology: HTLV and Related Retroviruses
Saturday, June 4, 2011 to Wednesday, June 8, 2011
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/show...ce+on+Human+Retrovirology+-+List+of+Abstracts
http://www.research1st.com/2011/06/08/15th-htlvconf/




Investigative XMRV studies (Just a selection) (Please see conference abstracts for ongoing studies)

An infectious retrovirus susceptible to an IFN antiviral pathway from human prostate tumors
Beihua Dong, Sanggu Kim, Seunghee Hong, Jaydip Das Gupta, Krishnamurthy Malathi, Eric A. Klein, Don Ganem, Joseph L. DeRisi, Samson A. Chow, and Robert H. Silverman
November 27, 2006
PNAS
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1776164/pdf/zpq1655.pdf

Quantification of reverse transcriptase in ALS and elimination of a novel retroviral candidate
A. L. McCormick, PhD, R. H. Brown Jr, MD, DPhil, M. E. Cudkowicz, MD, MSc, A. Al-Chalabi, PhD, FRCP and J. A. Garson, MD, PhD
July 18, 2007.
Neurology January 22, 2008
http://www.neurology.org/content/70/4/278.short

Molecular evolution of the prostate cancer susceptibility locus RNASEL: Evidence for positive selection
Kyle Summers, and Bernard Crespi
May 2008
Infection, Genetics and Evolution
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567134808000075

A Natural Human Retrovirus Efficiently Complements Vectors Based on Murine Leukemia Virus
Beihua Dong, Robert H. Silverman, Eugene S. Kandel
September 4, 2008
PLoS ONE
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2519784/pdf/pone.0003144.pdf

Fibrils of Prostatic Acid Phosphatase Fragments Boost Infections with XMRV (Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus), a Human Retrovirus Associated with Prostate Cancer
Seunghee Hong, Eric A. Klein, Jaydip Das Gupta, Kirsten Hanke, Christopher J. Weight, Carvell Nguyen, Christina Gaughan, Kyeong-Ae Kim, Norbert Bannert, Frank Kirchhoff, Jan Munch, and Robert H. Silverman
21 April 2009
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, July 2009
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704761/pdf/0268-09.pdf

Kyeong-Ae Kim, Norbert Bannert, Frank Kirchhoff, Jan Munch, and Robert H. Silverman
21 April 2009
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, July 2009
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704761/pdf/0268-09.pdf

Six host range variants of the xenotropic/polytropic gammaretroviruses define determinants for entry in the XPR1 cell surface receptor
Yuhe Yan, Qingping Liu and Christine A Kozak
7 October 2009
Retrovirology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2768677/pdf/1742-4690-6-87.pdf

Androgen Stimulates Transcription and Replication of XMRV (Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus)
Beihua Dong and Robert H. Silverman
11 November 2009
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.01763-09v1

The Prostate Cancer-Associated Human Retrovirus XMRV Lacks Direct Transforming Activity but Can Induce Low Rates of Transformation in Cultured Cells
Michael J. Metzger, Christiana J. Holguin, Ramon Mendoza, and A. Dusty Miller
February 2010
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/short/84/4/1874
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812358/pdf/1941-09.pdf

Retroviral infection in vivo requires an immune escape virulence factor encrypted in the envelope protein of oncoretroviruses
Schlecht-Louf G, Renard M, Mangeney M, Letzelter C, Richaud A, Ducos B, Bouallaga I, Heidmann T.
2010 Feb 23
PNAS
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/8/3782.long

Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Establishes an Efficient Spreading Infection and Exhibits Enhanced Transcriptional Activity in Prostate Carcinoma Cells
Jason J. Rodriguez, and Stephen P. Goff
March 2010
Journal of Virology, March 2010, p. 2556-2562, Vol. 84, No. 5
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/84/5/2556

Susceptibility of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) to retroviral restriction factors
Harriet C. T. Groom, Melvyn W. Yap, Rui Pedro Galo, Stuart J. D. Neil, and Kate N. Bishop.
16 March 2010
PNAS , doi: 10.1073/pnas.0913650107
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/11/5166.full

Inhibition of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus by APOBEC3 Proteins and Antiviral Drugs
Tobias Paprotka, Narasimhan J. Venkatachari, Chawaree Chaipan, Ryan Burdick, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Wei-Shau Hu, and Vinay K. Pathak
24 March 2010
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.00134-10v1

Host range and cellular tropism of the human exogenous gammaretrovirus XMRV.
Stieler K, Schulz C, Lavanya M, Aepfelbacher M, Stocking C, Fischer N.
2010 Mar 30
Virology
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682209008137

Raltegravir Is a Potent Inhibitor of XMRV, a Virus Implicated in Prostate Cancer and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Ila R. Singh, John E. Gorzynski, Daria Drobysheva, Leda Bassit, Raymond F. Schinazi
April 1, 2010
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009948

Evaluation of Cellular Determinants Required for In Vitro Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Entry into Human Prostate Cancer and Noncancerous Cells
Sushma Bhosle, Suganthi Suppiah, Ross Molinaro, Yuying Liang, Rebecca Arnold, William Diehl, Natalia Makarova, Jerry Blackwell, John Petros, Dennis Liotta, Eric Hunter, and Hinh Ly
21 April 2010
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full...ld&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

Prostate Cancer and Noncancerous Cells
Sushma Bhosle, Suganthi Suppiah, Ross Molinaro, Yuying Liang, Rebecca Arnold, William Diehl, Natalia Makarova, Jerry Blackwell, John Petros, Dennis Liotta, Eric Hunter, and Hinh Ly
21 April 2010
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full...ld&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

Repeated Detection of Infectious Xenotropic Murine Virus-Related Virus (XMRV) in Human Neoplasia and Neuroimmune Diseases
Francis Ruscetti, Vincent Lombardi, Max Pfost, Kathryn Hagen, Judy Mikovits
26-27 April 2010
Unpublished - Presented at the 12th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies (ICMAOI)
http://oham.cancer.gov/objects/pdf/2010ICMAOI_Program_Book.pdf

Characterization of retroviral and lentiviral vectors pseudotyped with xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus envelope glycoprotein
Sakuma T, De Ravin SS, Tonne JM, Thatava T, Ohmine S, Takeuchi Y, Malech HL, Ikeda Y.
May 27, 2010
Human Gene Therapy
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/hum.2010.063

Apobec 3G Efficiently Reduces Infectivity of the Human Exogenous Gammaretrovirus XMRV
Kristin Stieler, Nicole Fischer
July 23, 2010
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011738

Acutely transforming retrovirus expressing Nras generated from HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cells infected with the human retrovirus XMRV
Metzger MJ, Miller AD.
August 2010
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/84/15/7908?view=long&pmid=20504941

Characterization of antibodies elicited by XMRV infection and development of immunoassays useful for epidemiologic studies
Xiaoxing Qiu, Priscilla Swanson, Ka-Cheung Luk, Bailin Tu, Francois Villinger, Jaydip Das Gupta, Robert H Silverman, Eric A Klein, Sushil Devare, Gerald Schochetman, John Hackett Jr
17 August 2010
Retrovirology 2010
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-68.pdf

Evolution of Functional and Sequence Variants of the Mammalian XPR1 Receptor for Mouse Xenotropic Gammaretroviruses and the Human-Derived Retrovirus XMRV
Yuhe Yan, Qingping Liu, Kurt Wollenberg, Carrie Martin, Alicia Buckler-White, and Christine A. Kozak
1 September 2010
Journal of Virology, Nov. 2010
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/84/22/11970

Common Inbred Strains of the Laboratory Mouse That Are Susceptible to Infection by Mouse Xenotropic Gammaretroviruses and the Human-Derived Retrovirus XMRV
Surendranath Baliji, Qingping Liu,, and Christine A. Kozak
December 2010
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/84/24/12841?view=long&pmid=20943975

Characterization of retroviral and lentiviral vectors pseudotyped with xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus envelope glycoprotein
Sakuma T, De Ravin SS, Tonne JM, Thatava T, Ohmine S, Takeuchi Y, Malech HL, Ikeda Y.
December 10, 2010
Human Gene Therapy
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/hum.2010.063

Severe Restriction of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Replication and Spread in Cultured Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
Chawaree Chaipan, Kari A. Dilley, Tobias Paprotka, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Narasimhan J. Venkatachari, Wei-Shau Hu, and Vinay K. Pathak*
2011 J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.00046-11
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.00046-11v1

Infection, viral dissemination and antibody responses of Rhesus macaques exposed to the human gammaretrovirus XMRV
Nattawat Onlamoon, Jaydip Das Gupta, Prachi Sharma, Kenneth Rogers, Suganthi Suppiah, Jeanne Rhea, Ross J. Molinaro, Christina Gaughan, Beihua Dong, Eric A. Klein, Xiaoxing Qiu, Sushil Devare, Gerald Schochetman, John Hackett Jr., Robert H Silverman, and Franois Villinger
2011 J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.02411-10
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.02411-10v1

NF-kB Activation Stimulates Transcription and Replication of Retrovirus XMRV in Human B-Lineage and Prostate Carcinoma Cells
Shuhei Sakakibara, Kaori Sakakibara,, and Giovanna Tosato
26 January 2011
Journal of Virology, April 2011, p. 3179-3186, Vol. 85, No. 7
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/short/85/7/3179

Human APOBEC3 proteins can inhibit xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus infectivity
Hal P. Bogerd, Fengwen Zhang, Paul D. Bieniasz and Bryan R. Cullen
5 February 2011
Virology
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682210007270

Purify First: Rapid expression and purification of proteins from XMRV
William K. Gillette, Dominic Esposito, Troy E. Taylor, Ralph F. Hopkins, Rachel K. Bagni and James L. Hartley
April 2011
Protein Expression and Purification
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1046592810003414

Xmrv Infection Induces Host Genes That Regulate Inflammation And Cellular Physiology
Michael Lee, Elona Gusho, Jaydip Das Gupta, Eric Klein, Robert Silverman
April 2011
The Journal of Urology
(Unpublished abstract - presented at the American Urological Association meeting)
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)00620-3/fulltext

Antibody Responses against Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus Envelope in a Murine Model
Natalia Makarova, Chunxia Zhao, Yuanyuan Zhang, Sushma Bhosle, Suganthi Suppiah, Jeanne M. Rhea, Natalia Kozyr, Rebecca S. Arnold, Hinh Ly, Ross J. Molinaro, Tristram G. Parslow, Eric Hunter, Dennis Liotta, John Petros, Jerry L. Blackwell
April 6, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info...onid=159E155669BA4FC9765C02D8E1CDCFD3.ambra01

Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related Virus-associated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Reveals a Distinct Inflammatory Signature
VINCENT C LOMBARDI, KATHRYN S HAGEN, KENNETH W HUNTER, JOHN W DIAMOND, JULIE SMITH-GAGEN, WEI YANG, and JUDY A. MIKOVITS
May-June 2011
in vivo 25: 307-314 (2011
http://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/25/3/307.abstract?etoc

Sexual transmission of XMRV:a potential infection route
Prachi Sharma, Kenneth Rogers, Suganthi Suppiah, Ross Ross Molinaro Ross J. Molinaro, Nattawat Onlamoon, J. Hackett Jr., G. Schochetman, Eric A. Klein, Robert Silverman, and F. Villinger
25 May 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/965689/

Naturally occurring polymorphisms of the mouse gammaretrovirus receptors CAT-1 and XPR1 alter virus tropism and pathogenicity
Christine A. Kozak
12 July 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/975801/

Frequent detection of infectious xenotropic murine leukemia virus (XMLV) in human cultures established from mouse xenografts
Yu-An Zhang, Anirban Maitra, Jer-Tsong Hsieh, Charles M. Rudin, Craig Peacock, Collins Karikari, Rolf A. Brekken, Victor Stastny, Boning Gao, Luc Girard, Ignacio Wistuba, Eugene Frenkel, John D. Minna and Adi F. Gazdar
October 1, 2011
Cancer Biology & Therapy Volume 12, Issue 7
https://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/5/article/15955/
https://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/cbt/ZhangCBT12-7.pdf





XMRV & CFS Patients - Published negative studies

Failure to Detect the Novel Retrovirus XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Otto Erlwein, Steve Kaye, Myra O. McClure, Jonathan Weber, Gillian Wills, David Collier, Simon Wessely, Anthony Cleare
January 6, 2010
PloS One
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008519

Absence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in UK patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
Harriet CT Groom, Virginie C Boucherit, Kerry Makinson, Edward Randal, Sarah Baptista, Suzanne Hagan, John W Gow, Frank M Mattes, Judith Breuer, Jonathan R Kerr, Jonathan P Stoye, Kate N Bishop
15 February 2010
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/7/1/10

Prevalence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Netherlands: retrospective analysis of samples from an established cohort
Frank J M van Kuppeveld, Arjan S de Jong, Kjerstin H Lanke, Gerald W Verhaegh, Willem J G Melchers, Caroline M A Swanink, Gijs Bleijenberg, Mihai G Netea, Jochem M D Galama, Jos W M van der Meer
25 February 2010
BMJ
http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1018.full

Absence of evidence of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related virus infection in persons with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and healthy controls in the United States
William M Switzer, Hongwei Jia, Oliver Hohn, HaoQiang Zheng, Shaohua Tang, Anupama Shankar, Norbert Bannert, Graham Simmons, R Michael Hendry, Virginia R Falkenberg, William C Reeves and Walid Heneine
1 July 2010
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/7/1/57

Failure to detect Xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in Chinese patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
Ping Hong, Jinming Li, Yongzhe Li
13 September 2010
Virology Journal
http://www.virologyj.com/content/pdf/1743-422x-7-224.pdf

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus prevalence in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome or chronic immunomodulatory conditions
Henrich TJ, Li JZ, Felsenstein D, Kotton CN, Plenge RM, Pereyra F, Marty FM, Lin NH, Grazioso P, Crochiere DM, Eggers D, Kuritzkes DR, Tsibris AM.
2010 Nov 15
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20936980

No Evidence for XMRV in German CFS and MS Patients with Fatigue Despite the Ability of the Virus to Infect Human Blood Cells In Vitro
Oliver Hohn, Kristin Strohschein, Alexander U. Brandt, Sandra Seeher, Sandra Klein, Reinhard Kurth, Friedemann Paul, Christian Meisel, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Norbert Bannert
December 22, 2010
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0015632

Serologic and PCR testing of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome in the United States shows no association with xenotropic or polytropic murine leukemia virus-related viruses
Brent C Satterfield, Rebecca A Garcia, Hongwei Jia, Shaohua Tang, HaoQiang Zheng, and William M Switzer
22 February 2011
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/1/12

Investigation into the Presence of and Serological Response to XMRV in CFS Patients
Otto Erlwein, Mark J. Robinson, Steve Kaye, Gillian Wills, Shozo Izui, Simon Wessely, Jonathan Weber, Anthony Cleare, David Collier, Myra O. McClure
March 9, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info...onid=D53FC24B8C7988B2019B952378A8CB06.ambra02

No association of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus with prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome in Japan
Rika A Furuta, Takayuki Miyazawa, Takeki Sugiyama, Hirohiko Kuratsune, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Eiji Sato, Naoko Misawa, Yasuhito Nakatomi, Ryuta Sakuma, Kazuta Yasui, Kouzi Yamaguti, and Fumiya Hirayama
17 March 2011
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/1/20

Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid from chronic fatigue syndrome patients for multiple human ubiquitous viruses and xenotropic murine leukemia-related virus
Steven E Schutzer MD, Megan A Rounds M, Benjamin H Natelson MD, David J Ecker PhD, Mark W Eshoo PhD
6 April 2011
Annals of Neurology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.22389/abstract

Absence of XMRV and other MLV-related viruses in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Clifford H. Shin, Lucinda Bateman, Robert Schlaberg, Ashley M. Bunker, Christopher J. Leonard, Ronald W. Hughen, Alan R. Light, Kathleen C. Light, and Ila R. Singh
4 May 2011
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.00693-11v1

No Evidence of Murine-Like Gammaretroviruses in CFS Patients Previously
Identified as XMRV-Infected

Konstance Knox, Donald Carrigan, Graham Simmons, Fernando Teque,Yanchen Zhou, John Hackett Jr.,Xiaoxing Qiu, Ka-Cheung Luk, Gerald Schochetman, Allyn Knox, Andreas M. Kogelnik, Jay A. Levy
31 May 2011
Sciencexpress
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/05/31/science.1204963.full.pdf

Failure to detect XMRV-specific antibodies in the plasma of CFS patients using Highly Sensitive Chemiluminescence Immunoassays
Brendan Oakes, Xiaoxing Qiu, Susan Levine, J. Hackett Jr., and Brigitte Huber
10 June 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/854540/

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in monozygotic twins discordant for chronic fatigue syndrome
Jerome KR, Diem K, Huang ML, Selke S, Corey L, Buchwald D.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.06.003
26 July 2011
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21795004





Inconclusive studies & studies that add some knowledge about XMRV

No Association of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses with Prostate Cancer
William M. Switzer, Hongwei Jia, HaoQiang Zheng, Shaohua Tang, Walid Heneine
May 4, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019065#abstract0
("Also, the finding of a viral strain in three prostate cancer patients that is distinct from the XMRV seen in previous studies is significant and demonstrates a broader viral diversity. This would be an expected result consistent with virus evolution during spread and persistence.")



Overviews of XMRV Research

A Scientific Journey Through the 2-5A/RNase L System
Robert H. Silverman
2007
Cytokine Growth Factor Rev. 2007
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2075094/pdf/nihms30420.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17681844

Implications for XMRV Infections In Prostate Cancer
Seunghee Hong
January, 2010
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Molecular Virology Program
Case Western Reserve University
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Hong Seunghee.pdf?case1251739728

The human retrovirus XMRV in prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome
Robert H. Silverman, Carvell Nguyen, Christopher J. Weight & Eric A. Klein
1 June 2010
Nature Reviews Urology
http://www.nature.com/nrurol/journal/v7/n7/abs/nrurol.2010.77.html

Biology and pathophysiology of the new human retrovirus XMRV and its association with human disease
Alice Rusmevichientong and Samson A. Chow
August 18, 2010
Immunological Research
http://www.springerlink.com/content/w07qx0236q801q39/

The mouse xenotropic gammaretroviruses and their XPR1 receptor
Christine A Kozak
30 November 2010
Retrovirology 2010
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-101.pdf

Of mice and men: on the origin of XMRV (Article)
Antoinette Cornelia van der Kuyl, Marion Cornelissen and Ben Berkhout
17 January 2011
Frontier in Virology
http://www.frontiersin.org/virology/10.3389/fmicb.2010.00147/full

XMRV Discovery and Prostate Cancer Related Research
David Kang, Michael Lee, Jaydip Das Gupta, Eric A. Klein, and R. H. Silverman
25 May 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/432837/
http://downloads.mts.hindawi.com/MTS-Files/AV/papers/XMLV/432837.v2.pdf

Human infection or lab artifact: will the real XMRV please stand up? (Abstract only)
Silverman
6 June 2011
Presentation from the "15th International Conference on Human Retroviruses: HTLV and Related Viruses"
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/S1/A241
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-8-S1-A241.pdf

Testing Strategies for Detection of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus Related Virus (XMRV) Infection
Shixing Tang and Indira K. Hewlett
10 June 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/281425/

Phylogeny-directed search for murine leukemia virus - like retroviruses in vertebrate genomes, and in patients suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Prostate Cancer
J. Blomberg, Ali Sheikholvaezin, Amal Elfaitouri, Fredrik Blomberg, Anna Sjsten, Johan Mattson Ulfstedt, Rudiger Pipkorn, Klas Kllander, Christina hrmalm, and Gran Sperber.
22 June 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/341294/




Reviews

Distribution of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus (XMRV) Infection in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Prostate Cancer
Judy A.Mikovits, Ying Huang, Max A.Pfost, Vincent C.Lombardi, Daniel C.Bertolette, Kathryn S.Hagen, and Francis W.Ruscetti.
2010
AIDS Review
http://www.aidsreviews.com/files/2010_12_3_149-152.pdf

Detecting Retroviral Sequences in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Ila R. Singh
3 November 2010
Viruses 2010
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/2/11/2404/pdf

Endogenous Murine Leukemia Viruses: Relationship to XMRV and Related Sequences Detected in Human DNA Samples
J. M. Coffin and Oya Cingz
Advances in Virology
7 July 2011
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/940210/




Letters to Scientific Journals

Mouse viruses and human disease (Letter)
Gkikas Magiorkinis
April 2011 doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70081-0
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...lsca1=TLID-290311&elsca2=email&elsca3=segment

Mouse viruses and human disease (Letter)
Alexandre FR Stewart, D William Cameron
April 2011 doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70082-2
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70082-2/fulltext




Blood Related Studies & Reviews

Xenotropic murine leukemia virusrelated virus (XMRV) and blood transfusion: report of the AABB interorganizational XMRV task force
Harvey G. Klein, Roger Y. Dodd, F. Blaine Hollinger, Louis M. Katz, Steven Kleinman,
K. Kimberly McCleary, Robert H. Silverman, and Susan L. Stramer
- for the AABB Interorganizational Task Force on XMRV
51, March 2011
Transfusion
http://www.aabb.org/pressroom/Documents/xmrvcommrpt011811.pdf

The Blood Xenotropic Murine Leukemia VirusRelated Virus Scientific Research Working Group: mission, progress, and plans
Graham Simmons, Simone A. Glynn, Jerry A. Holmberg, John M. Coffin, Indira K. Hewlett, Shyh-Ching Lo, Judy A. Mikovits, William M. Switzer, Jeffrey M. Linnen, Michael P. Busch
- for the Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working Group
1 March 2011
Transfusion
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03063.x/abstract

XMRV, Q fever and other emerging infections: impact on management of blood safety
R. Y. Dodd
2011
2011 International Society of Blood Transfusion,
ISBT Science Series (2011) 6, 11912
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-2824.2011.01454.x/pdf

AABB XMRV information sheet:
http://www.aabb.org/resources/bct/eid/Documents/xmrvfactsheet.pdf

PCR Master Mixes Harbour Murine DNA Sequences. Caveat Emptor!
Philip W. Tuke, Kate I. Tettmar, Asif Tamuri, Jonathan P. Stoye, Richard S. Tedder.
May 25, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetc...icleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019953

No Evidence of XMRV or MuLV Sequences in Prostate Cancer, Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, or the UK Blood Donor Population
Mark James Robinson, Philip William Tuke, Otto Erlwein, Kate I. Tettmar, Steve Kaye, Kikkeri N. Naresh, Anup Patel, Marjorie M. Walker, Takahiro Kimura, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Richard S. Tedder, and Myra O. McClure
31 March 2011
Advances in Virology doi:10.1155/2012/782353
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/2011/782353/



Patents applied for

Compositions And Methods Relating To Xmrv-Related Diseases And Conditions
Singh, Ila Ramnaresh; (US). Thaker, Harshwardhan Manohar; (US). Schlaberg, Robert; (US). Shin, Clifford; (US)
The University Of Utah Research Foundation
(XMRV in breast cancer)
Patent:
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/WO2010132886
Info:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/xmrv-...s-on-xmrv-breast-cancer-prostate/472237776796

Diagnosis And Treatment Of Diseases Or Disorders Associated With Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus
MIKOVITS, Judy, A.; (US). LOMBARDI, Vincent, C.; (US). RUSCETTI, Sandra, K.; (US). RUSCETTI, Francis, W.; (US)
WPI
Methods of detecting XMRV, and diagnosing XMRV-related illnesses etc.
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/sea...lter=&sortOption=&queryString=&tab=PCT+Biblio

Detection Of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus
Mikovits; Judy A.; (Reno, NV) ; Lombardi; Vincent; (Reno, NV) ; Ruscetti; Sandra; (New Market, MD) ; Ruscetti; Francis; (New Market, MD) ; Silverman; Robert; (Beachwood, OH)
WPI
"Methods of detecting, diagnosing, monitoring or managing an XMRV-related neuroimmune disease such as chronic fatigue syndrome or XMRV-related lymphoma such as mantle cell lymphoma in a subject are disclosed."
June 23, 2011
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2011/0151431.html
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...ND&d=PG01&s1=mikovits&OS=mikovits&RS=mikovits





Positive XMRV Prostate Cancer studies

Identification of a novel Gammaretrovirus in prostate tumors of patients homozygous for R462Q RNASEL variant.
Urisman A, Molinaro RJ, Fischer N, Plummer SJ, Casey G, Klein EA, Malathi K, Magi-Galluzzi C, Tubbs RR, Ganem D, Silverman RH, DeRisi JL.
31st March 2006
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16609730?dopt=Abstract&holding=f1000,f1000m,isrctn
(XMRV was first discovered in 2006 in prostate cancer patients. This is the original XMRV paper)
(Results: XMRV in QQ genotype = 40%, XMRV in RQ + RR genotypes = 1.5%, Healthy controls = not tested.)

XMRV is present in malignant prostatic epithelium and is associated with prostate cancer, especially high-grade tumors
Robert Schlaberga, Daniel J. Choeb, Kristy R. Browna, Harshwardhan M. Thakerb and Ila R. Singh,
September 8, 2009
PNAS
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/09/04/0906922106.abstract
(Results: XMRV in prostate cancer tissue by IHC = 23%. XMRV in benign tissue controls by IHC = 4%)

XMRV infection in patients with prostate cancer: novel serologic assay and correlation with PCR and FISH.
Arnold RS, Makarova NV, Osunkoya AO, Suppiah S, Scott TA, Johnson NA, Bhosle SM, Liotta D, Hunter E, Marshall FF, Ly H, Molinaro RJ, Blackwell JL, Petros JA.
April 2010
Urology
http://www.goldjournal.net/article/S0090-4295(10)00117-2/abstract
(Results: XMRV in QQ genotype tested for XMRV antibodies = 40%, XMRV in either RQ or RR genotype = 15%, Healthy controls = not tested.)

Detection of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in normal and tumor tissue of patients from the southern United States with prostate cancer is dependent on specific polymerase chain reaction conditions
Danielson BP, Ayala GE, Kimata JT.
Nov 2010.
The Journal of Infection Diseases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20936978
(Results: XMRV detected in 22% of prostate cancer patients, in normal and tumour prostate tissue, independent of genotype. Healthy controls not tested.)




Unpublished Positive XMRV Prostate Cancer studies

Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus Related Virus (Xmrv) Is Present In Malignant Prostate Tissue But Does Not Affect Pathological Or Clinical Outcome
Chad Ritch, Ruslan Korets, Mireia Castillo-Martin, Josep Domingo-Domenech, Mitchell Benson, Carlos Cordon-Cardo
April 2011
The Journal of Urology (Abstract presented at the American Urological Association meeting)
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01618-1/fulltext
Immunofluorescence: XMRV detected in 33/65 (51%) of malignant samples, and in only 5/42 benign samples (12%).
PCR: XMRV detected 14/65 (21%) of prostate cancer samples, and 2/42 (5%) in benign tissue
Combined PCR and IF: XMRV was detected in at least 17% of malignant samples and rarely found in benign tissue.

A Preliminary Screening Of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus In Japanese Prostate Cancer Patients
Tsukasa Igawa, Yoshinao Kubo, Katsura Kakoki, Naoki Yamamoto, Hideki Sakai
April 2011
The Journal of Urology (Abstract presented at the American Urological Association meeting)
http://www.jurology.com/article/S0022-5347(11)01208-0/fulltext
(MLV sequences were detected in four out of sixty one patients (6.7%))




Inconclusive & No Association XMRV Prostate Cancer studies (Some XMRV detected)

Prevalence of human gammaretrovirus XMRV in sporadic prostate cancer.
Fischer N, Hellwinkel O, Schulz C, Chun FK, Huland H, Aepfelbacher M, Schlomm T.
2008 Nov (published online 29 September 2008)
J Clin Virol. 2008 Nov;43(3):277-83. Epub 2008 Sep 27.
http://www.journalofclinicalvirology.com/article/S1386-6532(08)00301-6/abstract
(Results: XMRV in prostate cancer = 0.95% XMRV in healthy controls = 1.4%)

Identification of viral infections in the prostate and evaluation of their association with cancer
Martinez-Fierro ML, Leach RJ, Gomez-Guerra LS, Garza-Guajardo R, Johnson-Pais T, Beuten J, Morales-Rodriguez IB, Hernandez-Ordoez MA, Calderon-Cardenas G, Ortiz-Lopez R, Rivas-Estilla AM, Ancer-Rodriguez J, Rojas-Martinez A.
24 June 2010
BMC Cancer
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/10/326/
(Results: XMRV in prostate cancer tissue=0. XMRV in normal controls = 1.3%)

Prevalence of human xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related gammaretrovirus (XMRV) in Dutch prostate cancer patients.
Verhaegh GW, de Jong AS, Smit FP, Jannink SA, Melchers WJ, Schalken JA.
March 2011
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20878949
(Results: XMRV sequences were detected in 3 out of 74 (i.e., 4%) PrCa specimens.)

No association of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus with prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome in Japan
Furuta RA, Miyazawa T, Sugiyama T, Kuratsune H, Ikeda Y, Sato E, Misawa N, Nakatomi Y, Sakuma R, Yasui K, Yamaguti K, Hirayama F.
17th March 2011
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065418/

No evidence of XMRV in prostate cancer cohorts in the Midwestern United States
Toshie Sakuma, Stphane Hu , Karen A Squillace , Jason M Tonne , Patrick R Blackburn , Seiga Ohmine , Tayaramma Thatava , Greg J Towers and Yasuhiro Ikeda.
29 March 2011
Retrovirology 2011, 8:23doi:10.1186/1742-4690-8-23
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/1/23

No Association of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses with Prostate Cancer
William M. Switzer, Hongwei Jia, HaoQiang Zheng, Shaohua Tang, Walid Heneine
May 4, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019065#abstract0
(Results: XMRV in prostate cancer = 1.9%)












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Negative XMRV Prostate Cancer Studies (No XMRV detected)

Lack of evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus(XMRV) in German prostate cancer patients
Oliver Hohn, Hans Krause, Pia Barbarotto, Lars Niederstadt, Nadine Beimforde, Joachim Denner, Kurt Miller, Reinhard Kurth and Norbert Bannert
16 October 2009
Retrovirology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770519/pdf/1742-4690-6-92.pdf

No difference in antibody titers against xenotropic MLV related virus in prostate cancer cases and cancer-free controls.
Sabunciyan S, Mandelberg N, Rabkin CS, Yolken R, Viscidi R.
31 January 2011
Molecular and Cellular Probes - doi:10.1016/j.mcp.2011.01.005
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890850811000065

No association of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus with prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome in Japan
Rika A Furuta, Takayuki Miyazawa, Takeki Sugiyama, Hirohiko Kuratsune, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Eiji Sato, Naoko Misawa, Yasuhito Nakatomi, Ryuta Sakuma, Kazuta Yasui, Kouzi Yamaguti, and Fumiya Hirayama
17 March 2011
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/1/20

No evidence of XMRV in prostate cancer cohorts in the Midwestern United States
Toshie Sakuma, Stphane Hu , Karen A Squillace , Jason M Tonne , Patrick R Blackburn , Seiga Ohmine , Tayaramma Thatava , Greg J Towers and Yasuhiro Ikeda.
29 March 2011
Retrovirology 2011, 8:23doi:10.1186/1742-4690-8-23
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/1/23

No Evidence of XMRV or MuLV Sequences in Prostate Cancer, Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, or the UK Blood Donor Population
Mark James Robinson, Philip William Tuke, Otto Erlwein, Kate I. Tettmar, Steve Kaye, Kikkeri N. Naresh, Anup Patel, Marjorie M. Walker, Takahiro Kimura, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Richard S. Tedder, and Myra O. McClure
31 March 2011
Advances in Virology doi:10.1155/2012/782353
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/2011/782353/

No Association of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses with Prostate Cancer
William M. Switzer, Hongwei Jia, HaoQiang Zheng, Shaohua Tang, Walid Heneine
May 4, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019065#abstract0




Negative XMRV studies other

No Evidence of XMRV or Related Retroviruses in a London HIV-1-Positive Patient Cohort
Eleanor R. Gray, Jeremy A. Garson, Judith Breuer, Simon Edwards, Paul Kellam1, Deenan Pillay, Greg J. Towers
March 23, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info...osone/PLoSONE+(PLoS+ONE+Alerts:+New+Articles)

Xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus is not found in peripheral blood cells from treatment-naive human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients
F. Maggi1, D. Focosi, L. Lanini, S. Sbranti, P. Mazzetti, L. Macera, S. Davini, M. De Donno, M. L. Mariotti, G. Antonelli, F. Scatena, M. Pistello.
14 June 2011
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03580.x/abstract

PCR Master Mixes Harbour Murine DNA Sequences. Caveat Emptor!
Philip W. Tuke, Kate I. Tettmar, Asif Tamuri, Jonathan P. Stoye, Richard S. Tedder.
May 25, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetc...icleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019953

No Evidence of XMRV or MuLV Sequences in Prostate Cancer, Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, or the UK Blood Donor Population
Mark James Robinson, Philip William Tuke, Otto Erlwein, Kate I. Tettmar, Steve Kaye, Kikkeri N. Naresh, Anup Patel, Marjorie M. Walker, Takahiro Kimura, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Richard S. Tedder, and Myra O. McClure
31 March 2011
Advances in Virology doi:10.1155/2012/782353
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/2011/782353/





Contamination studies and theories

Human RNA "Rumor" Viruses: the Search for Novel Human Retroviruses in Chronic Disease
Ccile Voisset, Robin A. Weiss, and David J. Griffiths
March 2008
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
http://mmbr.asm.org/cgi/content/full/72/1/157

A cautionary tale of virus and disease (opinion)
Robin A Weiss
27 September 2010
BMC Biology
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/124

Disease-associated XMRV sequences are consistent with laboratory contamination
Stphane Hu, Eleanor R Gray, Astrid Gall, Aris Katzourakis, Choon Ping Tan, Charlotte J Houldcroft, Stuart McLaren, Deenan Pillay, Andrew Futreal, Jeremy A Garson, Oliver G Pybus, Paul Kellam, Greg J Towers
20 December 2010
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-111.pdf

An Endogenous Murine Leukemia Viral Genome Contaminant in a Commercial RT-PCR Kit is Amplified Using Standard Primers for XMRV
Eiji Sato, Rika A Furuta, Takayuki Miyazawa
20 December 2010
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-110.pdf

Contamination of human DNA samples with mouse DNA can lead to false detection of XMRV-like sequences
Brendan Oakes, Albert K Tai, Oya Cingz, Madeleine H Henefield, Susan Levine, John M Coffin, Brigitte T Huber
20 December 2010
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-109.pdf

Mouse DNA contamination in human tissue tested for XMRV
Mark J Robinson, Otto W Erlwein, Steve Kaye, Jonathan Weber, Oya Cingoz, Anup Patel, Marjorie M Walker, Wun-Jae Kim, Mongkol Uiprasertkul, John M Coffin, Myra O McClure
20 December 2010
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-108.pdf

Contamination of clinical specimens with MLVencoding nucleic acids: implications for XMRV and other candidate human retroviruses
Robert A Smith
20 December 2010
Viewpoints,
Retrovirology 2010
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-112.pdf

Analysis of XMRV integration sites from human prostate cancer tissues suggests PCR contamination rather than genuine human infection.
Garson JA, Kellam P, Towers GJ.
25 February 2011
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/1/13

PCR Master Mixes Harbour Murine DNA Sequences. Caveat Emptor!
Philip W. Tuke, Kate I. Tettmar, Asif Tamuri, Jonathan P. Stoye, Richard S. Tedder.
May 25, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetc...icleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019953

Recombinant Origin of the Retrovirus XMRV
Tobias Paprotka, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Oya Cingz, Anthony Martinez, Hsing-Jien Kung, Clifford G. Tepper, Wei-Shau Hu, Matthew J. Fivash Jr., John M. Coffin, Vinay K. Pathak
31 May 2011
Ssciencexpress
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/05/31/science.1205292.full.pdf
Supporting material:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2011/05/31/science.1205292.DC1/1205292s.pdf

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) in prostate cancer cells likely represents a laboratory artifact
Jiawen Yang, Partho Battacharya, Ruchi Singhal, Eugene S. Kandel
June 2, 2011
Impact Journals - Oncotarget
http://impactjournals.com/oncotarge...et&page=article&op=view&path[]=287&path[]=438

Identification of Replication Competent Murine Gammaretroviruses in Commonly Used Prostate Cancer Cell Lines
Karen Sandell Sfanos, Amanda L. Aloia, Jessica L. Hicks, David M. Esopi, Jared P. Steranka, Wei Shao, Silvia Sanchez-Martinez, Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, Kathleen H. Burns, Alan Rein, Angelo M. De Marzo.
June 17, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020874

The left half of XMRV is present in an endogenous retrovirus of NIH/3T3 Swiss mouse cells
Ramon Mendoza, Andrew E. Vaughan, and A. Dusty Miller
22 June 2011
Journal of Virology J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.05137-11
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.05137-11v1?forumid=331851

Endogenous Murine Leukemia Viruses: Relationship to XMRV and MLVs Detected in Human DNA Samples
J. M. Coffin and Oya Cingz
7 July 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/940210/

Phylogenetic analysis of MLV sequences from longitudinally sampled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients suggests PCR contamination rather than viral evolution
Aris Katzourakis, Stphane Hu, Paul Kellam, and Greg J. Towers.
Journal of Virology
17 August 2011
J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.00827-11
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abst...id=1&usestrictdates=yes&resourcetype=HWCIT&ct

Frequent detection of infectious xenotropic murine leukemia virus (XMLV) in human cultures established from mouse xenografts
Yu-An Zhang, Anirban Maitra, Jer-Tsong Hsieh, Charles M. Rudin, Craig Peacock, Collins Karikari, Rolf A. Brekken, Victor Stastny, Boning Gao, Luc Girard, Ignacio Wistuba, Eugene Frenkel, John D. Minna and Adi F. Gazdar
October 1, 2011
Cancer Biology & Therapy Volume 12, Issue 7
https://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/5/article/15955/
https://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/cbt/ZhangCBT12-7.pdf




Papers that provide evidence against contamination theories

This list has only just been started - more to come

No Association of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Viruses with Prostate Cancer
William M. Switzer, Hongwei Jia, HaoQiang Zheng, Shaohua Tang, Walid Heneine
May 4, 2011
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0019065#abstract0
"Also, the finding of a viral strain in three prostate cancer patients that is distinct from the XMRV seen in previous studies is significant and demonstrates a broader viral diversity. This would be an expected result consistent with virus evolution during spread and persistence."

Murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) and Xenotropic MuLV-related viruses exhibit inter-tropic complex recombination patterns
Mattia C F Prosperi , William M Switzer, Walid Heneine and Marco Salemi
6 June 2011
Unpublished abstract presented to the '15th International Conference on Human Retroviruses: HTLV and Related Viruses'
Retrovirology 2011, 8(Suppl 1):A235doi:10.1186/1742-4690-8-S1-A235
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/S1/A235
Conclusion:
"Given the evidence of inter-tropic recombination in MuLV, detection and classification of recombination in XMRV using different MuLV tropism prototypes should be interpreted with caution ... These results suggest that identification of parental strains of the potential recombinants is difficult and that recombination in the highly genetically related MuLV have been occurring for some time."


Frequent detection of infectious xenotropic murine leukemia virus (XMLV) in human cultures established from mouse xenografts
Yu-An Zhang, Anirban Maitra, Jer-Tsong Hsieh, Charles M. Rudin, Craig Peacock, Collins Karikari, Rolf A. Brekken, Victor Stastny, Boning Gao, Luc Girard, Ignacio Wistuba, Eugene Frenkel, John D. Minna and Adi F. Gazdar
October 1, 2011
Cancer Biology & Therapy Volume 12, Issue 7
https://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/5/article/15955/
https://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/cbt/ZhangCBT12-7.pdf




MLV Recombination Theory Studies

Recombinant Origin of the Retrovirus XMRV
Tobias Paprotka, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Oya Cingz, Anthony Martinez, Hsing-Jien Kung, Clifford G. Tepper, Wei-Shau Hu, Matthew J. Fivash Jr., John M. Coffin, Vinay K. Pathak
31 May 2011
Sciencexpress
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/05/31/science.1205292.full.pdf
Supporting material:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2011/05/31/science.1205292.DC1/1205292s.pdf

The left half of XMRV is present in an endogenous retrovirus of NIH/3T3 Swiss mouse cells
Ramon Mendoza, Andrew E. Vaughan, and A. Dusty Miller
22 June 2011
Journal of Virology J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.05137-11
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.05137-11v1?forumid=331851

Murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) and Xenotropic MuLV-related viruses exhibit inter-tropic complex recombination patterns
Mattia C F Prosperi , William M Switzer, Walid Heneine and Marco Salemi
6 June 2011
Unpublished abstract presented to the '15th International Conference on Human Retroviruses: HTLV and Related Viruses'
Retrovirology 2011, 8(Suppl 1):A235doi:10.1186/1742-4690-8-S1-A235
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/S1/A235




Other negative studies (Not CFS or Prostate cancer)

Absence of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in blood cells of men at risk for and infected with HIV.
Kunstman KJ, Bhattacharya T, Flaherty J, Phair JP, Wolinsky SM.
17 July 2010
AIDS
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20597166

No evidence for XMRV association in pediatric idiopathic diseases in France
Eric Jeziorski, Vincent Foulongne, Catherine Ludwig, Djamel Louhaem, Gilles Chiocchia, Michel Segondy, Michel Rodire, Marc Sitbon, and Valrie Courgnaud
2 August 2010
Retrovirology
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/7/1/63

Lack of Detection of XMRV in Seminal Plasma from HIV-1 Infected Men in The Netherlands
Marion Cornelissen, Fokla Zorgdrager, Petra Blom, Suzanne Jurriaans, Sjoerd Repping, Elisabeth van Leeuwen, Margreet Bakker, Ben Berkhout, Antoinette C. van der Kuyl
August 10, 2010
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012040

PCR and serology find no association between xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) and autism
Brent C Satterfield (Cooperative Diagnostics), Rebecca A Garcia, Fiorella Gurrieri and Charles E Schwartz
14 October 2010
Molecular Autism 2010, 1:14 doi:10.1186/2040-2392-1-14
http://www.molecularautism.com/content/1/1/14

Failure to detect xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus in blood of individuals at high risk of blood-borne viral infections
Barnes E, Flanagan P, Brown A, Robinson N, Brown H, McClure M, Oxenius A, Collier J, Weber J, Gnthard HF, Hirschel B, Fidler S, Phillips R, Frater J.
2010 Nov 15
Journal of Infectious Diseases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20936982

Lack of Infection with XMRV or Other MLV-Related Viruses in Blood, Post-Mortem Brains and Paternal Gametes of Autistic Individuals
Carla Lintas1,2, Francesco Guidi3, Barbara Manzi4, Antonio Mancini5, Paolo Curatolo4, Antonio M. Persico1,2
February 23, 2011
PLoS ONE 6(2): e16609. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016609
http://www.plosone.org/article/info...onid=6F4016946515F29A53051C40E29FE56E.ambra02

No Evidence of XMRV or Related Retroviruses in a London HIV-1-Positive Patient Cohort
Eleanor R. Gray, Jeremy A. Garson, Judith Breuer, Simon Edwards, Paul Kellam, Deenan Pillay, Greg J. Towers
March 23, 2011
PLoS ONE 6(3): e18096. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018096
http://www.plosone.org/article/info...osone/PLoSONE+(PLoS+ONE+Alerts:+New+Articles)

Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus (XMRV) in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Balada E, Castro-Marrero J, Felip L, Vilardell-Tarrs M, Ordi-Ros J.
April 21, 2011
Journal Of Clinical Immunology
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h711880401653u48/




Science Journal editorial Editorial Expression of Concern

Editorial Expression of Concern
Bruce Alberts
31 May 2011
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/05/31/science.1208542.full.pdf

Dr. Mikovits' response to the Editorial Expression of Concern
http://files.me.com/jdj88/keednw

Annette Whittemore's response to the Editorial Expression of Concern
http://files.me.com/jdj88/tnmi0f

Response from the WPI's Clinical Advisory Board to the Editorial Expression of Concern
http://files.me.com/jdj88/hok3p2

A Comparison of Methods for the Detection and Association of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Replication Analysis.
WPI
June 2011
http://files.me.com/jdj88/tzgfod
http://treatingxmrv.blogspot.com/2011/06/comparison-of-methods-for-detection-and.html




Historical research looking at MLV-related viruses associated with human disease

Viral-Related RNA in Hodgkins' Disease and Other Human Lymphomas
R. Hehlmann, D. Kufe, and S. Spiegelman
July 1972
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1972 July; 69(7): 17271731.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC426788/?tool=pubmed

RNA in Human Leukemic Cells Related to the RNA of a Mouse Leukemia Virus
R. Hehlmann, D. Kufe, and S. Spiegelman
Feb 1972
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1972 February; 69(2): 435439
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC426474/?tool=pubmed

Human sarcomas contain RNA related to the RNA of a mouse leukemia virus.
Kufe D, Hehlmann R, Spiegelman S.
Jan 1972
Science. 1972 Jan 14;175(18):182-5.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4332759

Burkitt's Tumors Contain Particles Encapsulating RNA-Instructed DNA Polymerase and High Molecular Weight Virus-Related RNA
D. Kufe,* I. T. Magrath, J. L. Ziegler, and S. Spiegelman
March 1973
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1973 March; 70(3): 737741.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC433347/?tool=pubmed

Sequences Present in Both Human Leukemic Cell Nuclear DNA and Rauscher Leukemia Virus
William G. Baxt
July 1974
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1974 July; 71(7): 28532857.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC388570/?tool=pubmed

Rauscher-leukemia-virus-related sequences in human DNA: presence in some tissues of some patients with hemotopoietic neoplasias and absence in DNA from other tissues.
G S Aulakh and R C Gallo
Jan 1977
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1977 January; 74(1): 353357.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC393258/?tool=pubmed

Retroviral sequences related to human T-lymphotropic virus type II in patients with chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome
Elaine Defreitas, Brendan Hilliard, Paul R. Cheney, David S. Bell, Edward Kiggundu, Diane Sankey, Zofia Wroblewska, Maria Palladino, John P. Woodward, And Hilary Koprowski
November 13, 1990
Medical Sciences April 1991
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC51352/pdf/pnas01057-0319.pdf

Inability of retroviral tests to identify persons with chronic fatigue syndrome, 1992
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
1993 Mar
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8446093
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00019881.htm

Detection of mammary tumor virus env gene-like sequences in human breast cancer.
Wang Y, Holland JF, Bleiweiss IJ, Melana S, Liu X, Pelisson I, Cantarella A, Stellrecht K, Mani S, Pogo BG.
1995 Nov 15
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/55/22/5173.long

Breast cancer incidence highest in the range of one species of house mouse, Mus domesticus.
Stewart TH, Sage RD, Stewart AF, Cameron DW.
17 December 1999
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v82/n2/full/6690941a.html

Mouse mammary tumor virus-like ENV gene sequences in human breast tumors and in a lymphoma of a breast cancer patient.
Etkind P, Du J, Khan A, Pillitteri J, Wiernik PH.
2000 April
http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/6/4/1273.long

High prevalence of an IgG response against murine leukemia virus (MLV) in patients with psoriasis
Mols JP, Hadi JC, Guilhou JJ.
Aug 2003
Virus Research
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168170203001370



Antiretroviral Research

Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus is susceptible to AZT
Sakuma R, Sakuma T, Ohmine S, Silverman RH, Ikeda Y.
2010 Feb 5
Virology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19959199

Inhibition of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus by APOBEC3 Proteins and Antiviral Drugs
Tobias Paprotka, Narasimhan J. Venkatachari, Chawaree Chaipan, Ryan Burdick, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Wei-Shau Hu, and Vinay K. Pathak
24 March 2010
Journal of Virology
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.00134-10v1

Raltegravir Is a Potent Inhibitor of XMRV, a Virus Implicated in Prostate Cancer and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Ila R. Singh, John E. Gorzynski, Daria Drobysheva, Leda Bassit, Raymond F. Schinazi
April 1, 2010
PLoS ONE
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009948

Susceptibility of the human retrovirus XMRV to antiretroviral inhibitors
Robert A Smith, Geoffrey S Gottlieb, A Dusty Miller
31 August 2010
Retrovirology 2010
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-7-70.pdf




Related/Relevant HIV Research

Incidence of cancers in people with HIV/AIDS compared with immunosuppressed transplant recipients: a meta-analysis
Prof Andrew E Grulich PhD, Marina T van Leeuwen MPH, Michael O Falster BPsych[Hons], Claire M Vajdic PhD
7 July 2007
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61050-2/fulltext

Spectrum of cancer risk late after AIDS onset in the United States.
Simard EP, Pfeiffer RM, Engels EA.
2010 Aug 9
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20696958

Lack of Detection of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus in HIV-1 Lymphoma Patients
Krista Delviks-Frankenberry, Chawaree Chaipan, Rachel Bagni, Kathleen Wyvill, R. Yarchoan, and Vinay Pathak
11 July 2011
Advances in Virology
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/av/aip/797820/




Related/Relevant HTLV Research

Low Degree of Human T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma Virus Type I Genetic Drift In Vivo as a Means of Monitoring Viral Transmission and Movement of Ancient Human Populations
Antoine Gessain, Robert C. Gallo, and Genoveffa Franchini
21 October 1991
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/66/4/2288

Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a Highly Divergent Human T-Cell Leukemia (Lymphotropic) Virus Type I (HTLV-I) Variant from Melanesia: Genetic and Phylogenetic Relationship to HTLV-I Strains from Other Geographical Regions
Antoine Gessain, Enzo Boeri, Richard Yanagihara, Robert C. Gallo, and Genoveffa Franchini
12 November 1992
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/67/2/1015.pdf

The Low Evolutionary Rate of Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-1 Confirmed by Analysis of Vertical Transmission Chains
S. Van Dooren, O. G. Pybus, M. Salemi, H.-F. Liu, P. Goubau, C. Remondegui, A. Talarmin, E. Gotuzzo, L. C. J. Alcantara, B. Galvo-Castro, and A.-M. Vandamme
January 22, 2004
Molecular Biology and Evolution
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/603.full




Other research related to XMRV/CFS

Avian leukemias and lymphomas : Interplay between retroviruses and herpesviruses
Robinson D, Liu JL, Jones D, Brunovskis P, Qian Z, Isfort R, Tillotson JK, Lee L, Witter R, Salter D, Crittenden L, Hughes S, Kung HJ.
1997 Apr
Leukemia.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9209335

Precise identification of endogenous proviruses of NFS/N mice participating in recombination with moloney ecotropic murine leukemia virus (MuLV) to generate polytropic MuLVs.
Alamgir AS, Owens N, Lavignon M, Malik F, Evans LH.
April 2005
Journal of Virology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15795252

RNase L, a crucial mediator of innate immunity and other cell functions
Catherine Bisbal and Tamim Salehzada
15 Octobre 2008
Medecine/Sciences
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18950583
http://www.medecinesciences.org/ind...doi&doi=10.1051/medsci/20082410859&Itemid=129

Unintended spread of a biosafety level 2 recombinant retrovirus
Alexander Stang, Elisabeth Petrasch-Parwez, Sabine Brandt, Rolf Dermietzel, Helmut E Meyer, Kai Sthler, Sven-T Liffers,
Klaus berl, and Thomas Grunwald
22 September 2009
Retrovirology
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760500/pdf/1742-4690-6-86.pdf

Endogenous retroviruses as potential hazards for vaccines
Takayuki Miyazawa
12 March 2010
Biologicals
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/~mettu/ece597m/papers/Leung/sdarticle-1.pdf





XMRV Sequences in genbank (This section is a not completed its not a full list)

Some information:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/showthread.php?11714-New-WPI-and-CDC-XMRV-sequences-in-genbank



Other information

A Comparison of Methods for the Detection and Association of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
WPI
http://files.me.com/jdj88/tzgfod
http://treatingxmrv.blogspot.com/2011/06/comparison-of-methods-for-detection-and.html

Sandra K. Ruscetti website:
http://ccr.cancer.gov/staff/staff.asp?profileid=5518

Microbe Hunting
W. Ian Lipkin
Sept. 2010
Microbiology And Molecular Biology Reviews
http://cii.columbia.edu/news/documents/MicrobeHunting_MMBR.pdf

Trans-NIH ME/CFS Research Working Group Website
NIH Website
http://orwh.od.nih.gov/CSF 2011/CFS_home.htm

Primer set list for each XMRV study:
http://www.mecfsforums.com/wiki/Primer_set_list_for_each_XMRV_study

Investigating Viruses in Cells Used to Make Vaccines; and Evaluating the Potential Threat Posed by Transmission of Viruses to Humans
Arifa S. Khan, PhD
FDA Website - ongoing research project
http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/scienceresearch/biologicsresearchareas/ucm127327.htm


Comparison Tables XMRV research studies

Prevalence Studies on XMRV and MLV-related Virus Infection in Human Diseases and General Populations
FDA
3rd March 2010
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Adviso.../BloodProductsAdvisoryCommittee/UCM234925.pdf

Studies of the Prevalence of Evidence of Murine Leukemia Virus(es) in Patients with CFS
1st International XMRV Workshop: Oral and Poster Presentations

CFIDS Association of America
7-8th September 2010
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/wrkshp-data-comparison.pdf

Published Studies on XMRV and MLRV Findings in Human Diseases and the General Population
(Table adapted from Gubernot D and Hewlett I, FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee Meeting, December 2010)
AABB
December 2010
http://www.aabb.org/resources/bct/eid/Documents/xmrvtable.pdf

Comparison of Published Studies of XMRV and Sequences of Other Murine Leukemia Viruses in Patients with CFS (ME/CFS)
CFIDS Association of America
May 4, 2011 (updated as of May 4, 2011)
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/data-comparison-082410.pdf

A Comparison of Methods for the Detection and Association of XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Replication Analysis.
WPI
June 2011
http://files.me.com/jdj88/tzgfod
http://treatingxmrv.blogspot.com/2011/06/comparison-of-methods-for-detection-and.html





Conference Abstracts (A small selection of abstracts)

Detection of XMRV sequences in EBV-transformed B cell lines
Pilot study by J Blanco et al:
"Envelope amplification yielded positive bands in 4 out of 21 individuals tested, 3 CFS affected individuals and 1 healthy donor.However, gag amplification yielded only 3 positive samples (1 CFS affected individual, 1 healthy donor and one HIV+ patient).In contrast, Real-time PCR of Pol fragment detected 7 positives samples in 14 individuals tested (4 SFC , 2 donors and 1 HIV+ individuals)."
http://regist2.virology-education.com/abstractbook/2010_8.pdf

Organ and Cell Lineage Dissemination of XMRV in Rhesus Macaques during Acute and Chronic Infection
Prachi Sharma, S Supplah, R Molinaro, K Rogers, J Das Gupta, R Silverman, J Hackett, Jr., S Devare, G Schochetman and F Villanger
Presented at the The 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
(CROI 2010)
Feb 2010
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/croi-2010.asp

Repeated Detection of Infectious Xenotropic Murine Virus-Related Virus (XMRV) in Human Neoplasia and Neuroimmune Diseases
Francis Ruscetti, Vincent Lombardi, Max Pfost, Kathryn Hagen, Judy Mikovits
26-27 April 2010
Unpublished - Presented at the 12th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies (ICMAOI)
http://oham.cancer.gov/objects/pdf/2010ICMAOI_Program_Book.pdf

Is the mechanism of systemic immune activation in XMRV positive CFS patients similar to that observed in HIV?
Kenny De Meirlier
Unpublished poster presentation from the 1st International Workshop on XMRV, 7-8th September 2010
http://esme-eu.com/xmrv/is-the-mech...r-to-that-observed-in-hiv-article419-191.html
http://esme-eu.com/getfile.php/Files/de Meirleir, K., poster for XMRV workshop[1](1).pdf
http://regist2.virology-education.com/abstractbook/2010_8.pdf

Murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) and Xenotropic MuLV-related viruses exhibit inter-tropic complex recombination patterns
Mattia C F Prosperi , William M Switzer, Walid Heneine and Marco Salemi
6 June 2011
Unpublished abstract presented to the '15th International Conference on Human Retroviruses: HTLV and Related Viruses'
Retrovirology 2011, 8(Suppl 1):A235doi:10.1186/1742-4690-8-S1-A235
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/S1/A235

Murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) and Xenotropic MuLV-related viruses exhibit inter-tropic complex recombination patterns
Mattia C F Prosperi , William M Switzer, Walid Heneine and Marco Salemi
6 June 2011
Unpublished abstract presented to the '15th International Conference on Human Retroviruses: HTLV and Related Viruses'
Retrovirology 2011, 8(Suppl 1):A235doi:10.1186/1742-4690-8-S1-A235
http://www.retrovirology.com/content/8/S1/A235
Conclusion:
"Given the evidence of inter-tropic recombination in MuLV, detection and classification of recombination in XMRV using different MuLV tropism prototypes should be interpreted with caution ... These results suggest that identification of parental strains of the potential recombinants is difficult and that recombination in the highly genetically related MuLV have been occurring for some time."





Student Theses relating to XMRV

Implications for XMRV Infections In Prostate Cancer
Seunghee Hong
January, 2010
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Molecular Virology Program
Case Western Reserve University
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Hong Seunghee.pdf?case1251739728

Evaluating XMRV As An Indicator Of Prostate Cancer Risk
Maria Barton
August, 2011
Thesis
A thesis submitted to Kent State University in collaboration with the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE
(Thesis approved by Dr. R.H. Silverman, Dr. R.V. Dorman, Dr. John Stalvey.)
http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=kent1309619878




Other resources

CFIDS Association of America (CAA)
XMRV Resources Listed by Date of Posting
http://www.cfids.org/xmrv/resource-listing.asp
 

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:Sign Good Job: Great work, Bob! Thanks a million. Do we have permission to repost elsewhere?

Hi jace,
Thank you,
Yes, anyone can repost it anywhere, preferably with a link to this thread so that people can check for updated versions.
It's not quite finished yet, so there maybe some tidying up, corrections and additional info.
 

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Bob,
Nice list.

You left out the key WPI patent: http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/sea...lter=&sortOption=&queryString=&tab=PCT+Biblio

This is a very broad provisional patent, I can't tell from the listing whether a permanent patent has been granted, this may still be provisional (although that usually only lasts for one year so they must be extending somehow). The WPI has patented all their original XMRV assays and even patented treatment of XMRV with any antivirals.
 

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Bob,
Nice list.

You left out the key WPI patent: http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/sea...lter=&sortOption=&queryString=&tab=PCT+Biblio

This is a very broad provisional patent, I can't tell from the listing whether a permanent patent has been granted, this may still be provisional (although that usually only lasts for one year so they must be extending somehow). The WPI has patented all their original XMRV assays and even patented treatment of XMRV with any antivirals.

Thanks for that Kurt... I've added it.

And there's also a new patent application here, which I've also added:
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...ND&d=PG01&s1=mikovits&OS=mikovits&RS=mikovits
 

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2 upcoming studies...

Yes, great list, thanks for compiling and posting it Bob.

I was wondering what are the two 'big' studies that folks keep talking about that aren't finished yet? One I guess is due at the end of the year, and then the other in 2012?

thanks.
 

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Yes, great list, thanks for compiling and posting it Bob.

I was wondering what are the two 'big' studies that folks keep talking about that aren't finished yet? One I guess is due at the end of the year, and then the other in 2012?

thanks.

The BWG (Blood Working Group) study, results expected this summer.
The Lipkin study, results expected by the end of 2011.

So both should appear this year, though I wouldn't be surprised they are delayed. Such things happen a lot.
 

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I added a large number of studies yesterday, added some categories, renamed some categories, and updated the PDF file.

If anyone spots anything obvious that is missing from the list, then I'd be really grateful for any feedback.
 

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Looks like a ton of work! You want feed back? ut-oh you asked for it!

It might be nice to have a clean thread, pdf or whatever, that outlines all the flawed logic, arguments, and unanswered questions around XMRV? All in plain english? Bob's effort at an unbiased view anyways...

I know you addressed many of those recently on various threads, but they kind of got buried in a very long thread towards the end. Everybody has such a lowsy memory it could also serve as a good reference.

Just a thought. It might be asking too much considering all you have done already.

And then when you are done with all that! A magazine, journal,TV station would be nice...
 

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Looks like a ton of work! You want feed back? ut-oh you asked for it!

It might be nice to have a clean thread, pdf or whatever, that outlines all the flawed logic, arguments, and unanswered questions around XMRV? All in plain english? Bob's effort at an unbiased view anyways...

I know you addressed many of those recently on various threads, but they kind of got buried in a very long thread towards the end. Everybody has such a lowsy memory it could also serve as a good reference.

Just a thought. It might be asking too much considering all you have done already.

And then when you are done with all that! A magazine, journal,TV station would be nice...

Hmm.... well, yes, you're right, I did ask for suggestions! :eek:

I have been thinking about writing a blog/discussion about all the aspects of XMRV contamination, and this list was compiled in part to help me with that.

I don't know if it will ever get done, because I've got to prioritise my list of things to do, but in the mean time, I suppose I could collate all of my recent posts re contamination, and post them in new blog or a new thread, in case helpful...

That could be a good idea. Thanks for the suggestions mark!
 

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It might be nice to have a clean thread, pdf or whatever, that outlines all the flawed logic, arguments, and unanswered questions around XMRV? All in plain english? Bob's effort at an unbiased view anyways...

How would you determine which arguments are flawed? There is conflicting evidence, which I think muddies the water for determining which logic or arguments are flawed. Maybe better to outline the conflicting arguments without passing judgment as to which are flawed.