Nishani Wijesekera

Specific Akt Family Members Impair Stress-Mediated Transactivation of Viral Promoters and Enhance Neuronal Differentiation: Important Functions for Maintaining Latency

Jing Zhao, Liqian Zhu, Nishani Wijesekera et al. · Journal of Virology · 2020 · 20 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Independent Cis-Regulatory Modules within the Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Infected Cell Protein 0 (ICP0) Promoter Are Transactivated by Krüppel-like Factor 15 and Glucocorticoid Receptor

Nishani Wijesekera, Nicholas C. Hazell, Clinton Jones · Viruses · 2022 · 17 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology +17

Impaired glucocorticoid receptor function attenuates herpes simplex virus 1 production during explant-induced reactivation from latency in female mice

Kelly S. Harrison, Nishani Wijesekera, Anastasia G.J. Robinson et al. · Journal of Virology · 2023 · 15 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience +16

Progesterone increases the incidence of bovine herpesvirus 1 reactivation from latency and stimulates productive infection

Fouad S. El-mayet, Laximan Sawant, Nishani Wijesekera et al. · Virus Research · 2019 · 12 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Immunology, Veterinary Microbiology +13

Pioneer transcription factors, progesterone receptor and Krüppel like transcription factor 4, cooperatively stimulate the bovine herpesvirus 1 ICP0 early promoter and productive late protein expression

Laximan Sawant, Nishani Wijesekera, Clinton Jones · Virus Research · 2020 · 10 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +17