Human T-cell leukemia virus kind 1 (HTLV-1) is the etiological agent of grownup T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), and the neurological illness HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP).
RAS genes encode signaling proteins, which, in mammalian cells, act as molecular switches regulating important mobile processes as proliferation, development, differentiation, survival, motility, and metabolism in