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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
卷 89, 期 -, 页码 2788-2798出版社
SOC GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.2008/003699-0
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [GR 1224/3-1]
- Wilhelm Sander Stiftung [2006.087.1]
- EU [LSHC-CT-2005-018704]
The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax oncoprotein transforms human lymphocytes and is critical for the pathogenesis of HTLV-1-induced adult T-cell leukaemia, In HTLV-transformed cells, Tax upregulates interleukin (IL)-13, a cytokine with proliferative and antiapoptotic functions that is linked to leukaemogenesis. Tax-stimulated IL-13 is thought to result in autocrine stimulation of HTLV-infected cells and thus may be relevant to their growth. The causal transactivation of the IL-13 promoter by Tax is predominantly dependent on a nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)-binding P element. Here, it was shown that the isolated IL-13 Tax-responsive element (IL13TaxRE) was sufficient to mediate IL-13 transactivation by Tax and NFAT1. However, cyclosporin A, a specific NFAT inhibitor, revealed that Tax transactivation of IL13TaxRE or wild-type IL-13 promoter was independent of NFAT and that NFAT did not contribute to IL-13 upregulation in HTLV-transformed cells. By contrast, Tax stimulation was repressible by an efficient nuclear factor (NF)-kappa B inhibitor (IkBaDN), indicating the requirement for NF-kappa B. The capacity of NF-kappa B to stimulate IL13TaxRE was demonstrated by a strong response to NF-kappa B in reporter assays and by direct binding of NF-kappa B to IL13TaxRE. Thus, IL13TaxRE in the IL-13 promoter represents a dually active promoter element responsive to NF-kappa B and NFAT. Together, these results indicate that Tax causes IL-13 upregulation in HTLV-1-infected cells via NF-kappa B.
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