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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 80, Issue 3, Pages 1110-1120Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.80.3.1110-1120.2006
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 71933-07] Funding Source: Medline
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Herpes simplex virus mutants lacking the gamma(1)34.5 gene are not destructive to normal tissues but are potent cytolytic agents in human tumor cells in which the activation of double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) is suppressed. Thus, replication of a Delta gamma(1)34.5 mutant (R3616) in 12 genetically defined cancer cell lines correlates with suppression of PKR but not with the genotype of RAS. Extensive analyses of two cell lines transduced with either dominant negative MEK (dnMEK) or constitutively active MEK (caMEK) indicated that in R3616 mutant-infected cells dnMEK enabled PKR activation and decreased virus yields, whereas caMEK suppressed PKR and enabled better viral replication and cell destruction in transduced cells in vitro or in mouse xenografts. The results indicate that activated MEK mediates the suppression of PKR and that the status of MEK predicts the ability of Delta gamma(1)3 4.5 mutant viruses to replicate in and destroy tumor cells.
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