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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
Volume 84, Issue -, Pages 41-49Publisher
SOC GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.18633-0
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- MRC [G9202171] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G9202171] Funding Source: Medline
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The repression of human cytomegalovirus immediate-early (IE) lytic gene expression is crucial for the maintenance of the latent viral state. By using conditionally permissive cell lines, which provide a good model for the differentiation state-dependent repression of IE gene expression, we have identified several cellular factors that bind to the major immediate-early promoter (MIEP) and whose expression is down-regulated after differentiation to a permissive phenotype. Here we show that the cellular protein Ets-2 Repressor Factor (ERF) physically interacts with the MIEP and represses MIEP activity in undifferentiated non-permissive T2 embryonal carcinoma cells. This factor binds to the dyad element and the 21 bp repeats within the MIEP - regions known to be important for the negative regulation of MIEP activity. Finally, we show that following differentiation to a permissive phenotype ERF's repressive effects are severely abrogated.
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