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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 79, Issue 11, Pages 7068-7076Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.11.7068-7076.2005
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Human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7), which belongs to the betaherpesvirus subfamily and infects mainly CD4(+) T cells in vitro, infects children during infancy. HHV-7 contains two genes, U12 and U51, that encode putative homologs of cellular G-protein-coupled receptors. To analyze the biological function of the U12 and U51 genes, we cloned these genes and expressed the proteins in cells. U12 and U51 encoded functional calcium-mobilizing receptors for beta-chemokines, which include thymus and activation-regulated chemokine (TARC), macrophage-derived chemokine (MDC), EBI1-ligand chemokine (ELC), and secondary lymphoid-tissue chemokine (SLC), but not for other chemokines, suggesting that the chemokine selectivities of the U12 and U51 products were distinct from those of the known mammalian chemokine receptors. ELC and SLC induced migration in Jurkat cells stably expressing U12, but TARC and MDC did not. In contrast, none of these chemokines induced migration in Jurkat cells stably expressing U51. Together, these data indicate that the products of U12 and U51 may play important and different roles in the pathogenesis of HHV-7 through transmembrane signaling.
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