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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 88, 期 9, 页码 5001-5013出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03642-13
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- Health Research Board, Ireland [HRB RP2005/212]
- Cancer Research Ireland [CRI02WAL]
- Program for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI)
- European Union
- Cancer Research UK [15032] Funding Source: researchfish
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) establishes a lifelong latent infection in humans. EBV infection of primary B cells causes cell activation and proliferation, a process driven by the viral latency III gene expression program, which includes EBV nuclear proteins (EBNAs), latent membrane proteins, and untranslated RNAs, including microRNAs. Some latently infected cells enter the long-lived memory B-cell compartment and express only EBNA1 transiently (Lat I) or no EBV protein at all (Lat 0). Targeting the molecular machinery that controls B-cell fate decisions, including the Bcl-2 family of apoptosis-regulating proteins, is crucial to the EBV cycle of infection. Here, we show that BIK (also known asNBK), which encodes a proapoptotic sensitizer protein, is repressed by the EBNA2-driven Lat III program but not the Lat I program. BIK repression occurred soon after infection of primary B cells by EBV but not by a recombinant EBV in which the EBNA2 gene had been knocked out. Ectopic BIK induced apoptosis in Lat III cells by a mechanism dependent on its BH3 domain and the activation of caspases. Weshow that EBNA2 represses BIK in EBV-negative B-cell lymphoma-derived cell lines and that this host-virus interaction can inhibit the proapoptotic effect of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1), a key physiological mediator of B-cell homeostasis. Reduced levels of TGF-beta 1-associated regulatory SMAD proteins were bound to the BIK promoter in response to EBV Lat III or ectopic EBNA2. These data are evidence of an additional mechanism used by EBV to promote B-cell survival, namely, the transcriptional repression of the BH3-only sensitizer BIK.
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