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VIROLOGY
Volume 316, Issue 2, Pages 256-266Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.08.014
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herpesvirus; Marek's disease; HVT; Nr-13; bcl-2; apoptosis
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The Bcl-2 family, including antiapoptotic and proapoptotic members, plays key regulating roles in programmed cell death. We report the characterization of a new, member of the bcl-2 family, encoded by herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT). The product of this gene shares 80% homology with Nr-13, an apoptosis inhibitor, which is overexpressed in avian cells transformed by the v-src oncogene. This new gene, that,we propose to call vnr-13, is the first member of the bcl-2 family to be isolated among alpha-herpesviruses, Results from cells expressing the HVT-vnr-13 gene product show that the encoded protein inhibits apoptosis and also reduces the rate of cellular proliferation. Contrary to all bel-2 homologues found in gamma-herpesvirus, which are intronless, vnr-13 has the same organization as the cellular nr-13 gene. Hence, the HVT vnr-13 gene may have been acquired from a reverse transcriptase product of an unspliced precursor RNA, or via direct recombination with the host chromosomal DNA. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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