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Sin SH, Eason AB, Kim Y, Schneider JW, Damania B, Dittmer DP. The complete Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus genome induces early-onset, metastatic angiosarcoma in transgenic mice. Cell Host Microbe 2024; 32:755-767.e4. [PMID: 38653242 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
Abstract
Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the most common cancer in persons living with HIV. It is caused by KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). There exists no animal model for KS. Pronuclear injection of the 170,000-bp viral genome induces early-onset, aggressive angiosarcoma in transgenic mice. The tumors are histopathologically indistinguishable from human KS. As in human KS, all tumor cells express the viral latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA). The tumors transcribe most viral genes, whereas endothelial cells in other organs only transcribe the viral latent genes. The tumor cells are of endothelial lineage and exhibit the same molecular pattern of pathway activation as KS, namely phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mTOR, interleukin-10 (IL-10), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). The KSHV-induced tumors are more aggressive than Ha-ras-induced angiosarcomas. Overall survival is increased by prophylactic ganciclovir. Thus, whole-virus KSHV-transgenic mice represent an accurate model for KS and open the door for the genetic dissection of KS pathogenesis and evaluation of therapies, including vaccines.
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- Sang-Hoon Sin
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Laboratory of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- National Health Laboratory Service, Division of Anatomical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Hospital, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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Emilius L, Bremm F, Binder AK, Schaft N, Dörrie J. Tumor Antigens beyond the Human Exome. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:4673. [PMID: 38731892 PMCID: PMC11083240 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25094673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2024] [Revised: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024] Open
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With the advent of immunotherapeutics, a new era in the combat against cancer has begun. Particularly promising are neo-epitope-targeted therapies as the expression of neo-antigens is tumor-specific. In turn, this allows the selective targeting and killing of cancer cells whilst healthy cells remain largely unaffected. So far, many advances have been made in the development of treatment options which are tailored to the individual neo-epitope repertoire. The next big step is the achievement of efficacious "off-the-shelf" immunotherapies. For this, shared neo-epitopes propose an optimal target. Given the tremendous potential, a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms which lead to the formation of neo-antigens is of fundamental importance. Here, we review the various processes which result in the formation of neo-epitopes. Broadly, the origin of neo-epitopes can be categorized into three groups: canonical, noncanonical, and viral neo-epitopes. For the canonical neo-antigens that arise in direct consequence of somatic mutations, we summarize past and recent findings. Beyond that, our main focus is put on the discussion of noncanonical and viral neo-epitopes as we believe that targeting those provides an encouraging perspective to shape the future of cancer immunotherapeutics.
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- Lisabeth Emilius
- Department of Dermatology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (L.E.); (F.B.); (A.K.B.); (J.D.)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen European Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg (CCC ER-EMN), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (L.E.); (F.B.); (A.K.B.); (J.D.)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen European Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg (CCC ER-EMN), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (L.E.); (F.B.); (A.K.B.); (J.D.)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen European Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg (CCC ER-EMN), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (L.E.); (F.B.); (A.K.B.); (J.D.)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen European Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg (CCC ER-EMN), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; (L.E.); (F.B.); (A.K.B.); (J.D.)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen European Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg (CCC ER-EMN), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie (DZI), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
- Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF), 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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Li S, Wang M, Van Sciver N, Szymula A, Tumuluri VS, George A, Ramachandran A, Raina K, Costa CN, Zhao B, Kazemian M, Simas JP, Kaye KM. Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus latency-associated nuclear antigen broadly regulates viral gene expression and is essential for lytic infection. PLoS Pathog 2024; 20:e1011907. [PMID: 38232124 PMCID: PMC10793894 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is a leading cause of malignancy in AIDS and current therapies are limited. Like all herpesviruses, KSHV infection can be latent or lytic. KSHV latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) is essential for viral genome persistence during latent infection. LANA also maintains latency by antagonizing expression and function of the KSHV lytic switch protein, RTA. Here, we find LANA null KSHV is not capable of lytic replication, indicating a requirement for LANA. While LANA promoted both lytic and latent gene expression in cells partially permissive for lytic infection, it repressed expression in non-permissive cells. Importantly, forced RTA expression in non-permissive cells led to induction of lytic infection and LANA switched to promote, rather than repress, most lytic viral gene expression. When basal viral gene expression levels were high, LANA promoted expression, but repressed expression at low basal levels unless RTA expression was forcibly induced. LANA's effects were broad, but virus gene specific, extending to an engineered, recombinant viral GFP under control of host EF1α promoter, but not to host EF1α. Together, these results demonstrate that, in addition to its essential role in genome maintenance, LANA broadly regulates viral gene expression, and is required for high levels of lytic gene expression during lytic infection. Strategies that target LANA are expected to abolish KSHV infection.
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- Shijun Li
- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Medical School, Católica Biomedical Research, Palma de Cima, Portugal
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Medical School, Católica Biomedical Research, Palma de Cima, Portugal
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Broad Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Schulz TF, Freise A, Stein SC. Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus latency-associated nuclear antigen: more than a key mediator of viral persistence. Curr Opin Virol 2023; 61:101336. [PMID: 37331160 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2023.101336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023]
Abstract
Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), or human herpesvirus-8, is an oncogenic herpesvirus. Its latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) is essential for the persistence of KSHV in latently infected cells. LANA mediates replication of the latent viral genome during the S phase of a dividing cell and partitions episomes to daughter cells by attaching them to mitotic chromosomes. It also mediates the establishment of latency in newly infected cells through epigenetic mechanisms and suppresses the activation of the productive replication cycle. Furthermore, LANA promotes the proliferation of infected cell by acting as a transcriptional regulator and by modulating the cellular proteome through the recruitment of several cellular ubiquitin ligases. Finally, LANA interferes with the innate and adaptive immune system to facilitate the immune escape of infected cells.
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- Thomas F Schulz
- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Germany; Cluster of Excellence 2155 RESIST, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany.
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Germany; Cluster of Excellence 2155 RESIST, Germany
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Tan M, Li S, Juillard F, Chitas R, Custódio TF, Xue H, Szymula A, Sun Q, Liu B, Álvarez ÁL, Chen S, Huang J, Simas JP, McVey CE, Kaye KM. MLL1 is regulated by KSHV LANA and is important for virus latency. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:12895-12911. [PMID: 34850113 PMCID: PMC8682764 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab1094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Mixed lineage leukemia 1 (MLL1) is a histone methyltransferase. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a leading cause of malignancy in AIDS. KSHV latently infects tumor cells and its genome is decorated with epigenetic marks. Here, we show that KSHV latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) recruits MLL1 to viral DNA where it establishes H3K4me3 modifications at the extensive KSHV terminal repeat elements during primary infection. LANA interacts with MLL1 complex members, including WDR5, integrates into the MLL1 complex, and regulates MLL1 activity. We describe the 1.5-Å crystal structure of N-terminal LANA peptide complexed with MLL1 complex member WDR5, which reveals a potential regulatory mechanism. Disruption of MLL1 expression rendered KSHV latency establishment highly deficient. This deficiency was rescued by MLL1 but not by catalytically inactive MLL1. Therefore, MLL1 is LANA regulable and exerts a central role in virus infection. These results suggest broad potential for MLL1 regulation, including by non-host factors.
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- Min Tan
- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras 2780-157, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras 2780-157, Portugal
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200031 Shanghai, China
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Cardiology, Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Proteomics Center, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Institute of Precision Medicine, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine 200125 Shanghai, China
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.,Católica Biomedical Research, Católica Medical School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, 1649-023 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras 2780-157, Portugal
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Toptan T, Cantrell PS, Zeng X, Liu Y, Sun M, Yates NA, Chang Y, Moore PS. Proteomic approach to discover human cancer viruses from formalin-fixed tissues. JCI Insight 2020; 5:143003. [PMID: 33055416 PMCID: PMC7710300 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.143003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
The challenge of discovering a completely new human tumor virus of unknown phylogeny or sequence depends on detecting viral molecules and differentiating them from host molecules in the virus-associated neoplasm. We developed differential peptide subtraction (DPS) using differential mass spectrometry (dMS) followed by targeted analysis to facilitate this discovery. We validated this approach by analyzing Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), an aggressive human neoplasm, in which ~80% of cases are caused by the human Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV). Approximately 20% of MCC have a high mutational burden and are negative for MCV, but are microscopically indistinguishable from virus positive cases. Using 23 (12 MCV+, 11 MCV–) formalin-fixed MCC, DPS identified both viral and human biomarkers (MCV large T antigen, CDKN2AIP, SERPINB5, and TRIM29) that discriminate MCV+ and MCV– MCC. Statistical analysis of 498,131 dMS features not matching the human proteome by DPS revealed 562 (0.11%) to be upregulated in virus-infected samples. Remarkably, 4 (20%) of the top 20 candidate MS spectra originated from MCV T oncoprotein peptides and confirmed by reverse translation degenerate oligonucleotide sequencing. DPS is a robust proteomic approach to identify potentially novel viral sequences in infectious tumors when nucleic acid–based methods are not feasible. Differential peptide subtraction (DPS) is an application of differential mass-spectrometry followed by targeted analysis that can facilitate tumor virus and biomarker discovery.
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- Tuna Toptan
- Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Institute of Medical Virology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Center and
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- Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Center and
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- Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Center and.,Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Golas G, Jang SJ, Naik NG, Alonso JD, Papp B, Toth Z. Comparative analysis of the viral interferon regulatory factors of KSHV for their requisite for virus production and inhibition of the type I interferon pathway. Virology 2019; 541:160-173. [PMID: 32056714 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
Abstract
Unique among human viruses, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) encodes several homologs of cellular interferon regulatory factors (vIRFs). Since KSHV expresses multiple factors that can inhibit interferon (IFN) signaling to promote virus production, it is still unclear to what extent vIRFs contribute to these specific processes during KSHV infection. To study the function of vIRFs during viral infection, we engineered 3xFLAG-tagged-vIRF and vIRF-knockout recombinant KSHV clones, which were utilized to test vIRF expression, as well as their requirement for viral replication, virus production, and inhibition of the type I IFN pathway in different models of lytic KSHV infection. Our data show that all vIRFs can be expressed as lytic viral proteins, yet were dispensable for KSHV production and inhibition of type I IFN. Nevertheless, as vIRFs were able to suppress IFN-stimulated antiviral genes, vIRFs may still promote the KSHV lytic cycle in the presence of an ongoing antiviral response.
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- Gavin Golas
- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, 1395 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, 1395 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, 1395 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, 1395 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, 1395 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA; UF Genetics Institute, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA; UF Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA; UF Informatics Institute, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, 1395 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA; UF Genetics Institute, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA; UF Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA.
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The Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Protein ORF42 Is Required for Efficient Virion Production and Expression of Viral Proteins. Viruses 2019; 11:v11080711. [PMID: 31382485 PMCID: PMC6722526 DOI: 10.3390/v11080711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2019] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the etiologic agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma and other aggressive AIDS-associated malignancies, encodes over 90 genes, most of which are expressed only during the lytic replication cycle. The role of many of the KSHV lytic proteins in the KSHV replication cycle remains unknown, and many proteins are annotated based on known functions of homologs in other herpesviruses. Here we investigate the role of the previously uncharacterized KSHV lytic protein ORF42, a presumed tegument protein. We find that ORF42 is dispensable for reactivation from latency but is required for efficient production of viral particles. Like its alpha- and beta-herpesviral homologs, ORF42 is a late protein that accumulates in the viral particles. However, unlike its homologs, ORF42 appears to be required for efficient expression of at least some viral proteins and may potentiate post-transcriptional stages of gene expression. These results demonstrate that ORF42 has an important role in KSHV replication and may contribute to shaping viral gene expression.
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Bielefeldt-Ohmann H, Bruce AG, Howard K, Ikoma M, Thouless ME, Rose TM. Macaque homologs of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) infect germinal center lymphoid cells, epithelial cells in skin and gastrointestinal tract and gonadal germ cells in naturally infected macaques. Virology 2018; 519:106-120. [PMID: 29689462 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2018.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2018] [Revised: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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We developed a set of rabbit antisera to characterize infections by the macaque RV2 rhadinovirus homologs of KSHV. We analyzed tissues from rhesus and pig-tailed macaques naturally infected with rhesus rhadinovirus (RRV) or Macaca nemestrina rhadinovirus 2 (MneRV2). Our study demonstrates that RV2 rhadinoviruses have a tropism for epithelial cells, lymphocytes and gonadal germ cells in vivo. We observed latent infections in both undifferentiated and differentiated epithelial cells with expression of the latency marker, LANA. Expression of the early (ORF59) and late (glycoprotein B) lytic markers were detected in highly differentiated cells in epithelial ducts in oral, renal, dermal and gastric mucosal tissue as well as differentiated germ cells in male and female gonads. Our data provides evidence that epithelial and germ cell differentiation in vivo induces rhadinovirus reactivation and suggests that infected epithelial and germ cells play a role in transmission and dissemination of RV2 rhadinovirus infections in vivo.
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- Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Mariggiò G, Koch S, Schulz TF. Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus pathogenesis. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2018; 372:rstb.2016.0275. [PMID: 28893942 PMCID: PMC5597742 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), taxonomical name human gammaherpesvirus 8, is a phylogenetically old human virus that co-evolved with human populations, but is now only common (seroprevalence greater than 10%) in sub-Saharan Africa, around the Mediterranean Sea, parts of South America and in a few ethnic communities. KSHV causes three human malignancies, Kaposi sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma, and many cases of the plasmablastic form of multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) as well as occasional cases of plasmablastic lymphoma arising from MCD; it has also been linked to rare cases of bone marrow failure and hepatitis. As it has colonized humans physiologically for many thousand years, cofactors are needed to allow it to unfold its pathogenic potential. In most cases, these include immune defects of genetic, iatrogenic or infectious origin, and inflammation appears to play an important role in disease development. Our much improved understanding of its life cycle and its role in pathogenesis should now allow us to develop new therapeutic strategies directed against key viral proteins or intracellular pathways that are crucial for virus replication or persistence. Likewise, its limited (for a herpesvirus) distribution and transmission should offer an opportunity for the development and use of a vaccine to prevent transmission. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Human oncogenic viruses’.
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- Giuseppe Mariggiò
- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Carl Neuberg Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.,German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig site, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Carl Neuberg Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.,German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig site, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Carl Neuberg Strasse 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany .,German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig site, Hannover, Germany
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Superresolution microscopy reveals structural mechanisms driving the nanoarchitecture of a viral chromatin tether. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:4992-4997. [PMID: 29610353 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1721638115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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By tethering their circular genomes (episomes) to host chromatin, DNA tumor viruses ensure retention and segregation of their genetic material during cell divisions. Despite functional genetic and crystallographic studies, there is little information addressing the 3D structure of these tethers in cells, issues critical for understanding persistent infection by these viruses. Here, we have applied direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM) to establish the nanoarchitecture of tethers within cells latently infected with the oncogenic human pathogen, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Each KSHV tether comprises a series of homodimers of the latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) that bind with their C termini to the tandem array of episomal terminal repeats (TRs) and with their N termini to host chromatin. Superresolution imaging revealed that individual KSHV tethers possess similar overall dimensions and, in aggregate, fold to occupy the volume of a prolate ellipsoid. Using plasmids with increasing numbers of TRs, we found that tethers display polymer power law scaling behavior with a scaling exponent characteristic of active chromatin. For plasmids containing a two-TR tether, we determined the size, separation, and relative orientation of two distinct clusters of bound LANA, each corresponding to a single TR. From these data, we have generated a 3D model of the episomal half of the tether that integrates and extends previously established findings from epifluorescent, crystallographic, and epigenetic approaches. Our findings also validate the use of dSTORM in establishing novel structural insights into the physical basis of molecular connections linking host and pathogen genomes.
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Full-Length Isoforms of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen Accumulate in the Cytoplasm of Cells Undergoing the Lytic Cycle of Replication. J Virol 2017; 91:JVI.01532-17. [PMID: 28978712 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01532-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) performs a variety of functions to establish and maintain KSHV latency. During latency, LANA localizes to discrete punctate spots in the nucleus, where it tethers viral episomes to cellular chromatin and interacts with nuclear components to regulate cellular and viral gene expression. Using highly sensitive tyramide signal amplification, we determined that LANA localizes to the cytoplasm in different cell types undergoing the lytic cycle of replication after de novo primary infection and after spontaneous, tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate-, or open reading frame 50 (ORF50)/replication transactivator (RTA)-induced activation. We confirmed the presence of cytoplasmic LANA in a subset of cells in lytically active multicentric Castleman disease lesions. The induction of cellular migration by scratch-wounding confluent cell cultures, culturing under subconfluent conditions, or induction of cell differentiation in primary cultures upregulated the number of cells permissive for primary lytic KSHV infection. The induction of lytic replication was characterized by high-level expression of cytoplasmic LANA and nuclear ORF59, a marker of lytic replication. Subcellular fractionation studies revealed the presence of multiple isoforms of LANA in the cytoplasm of ORF50/RTA-activated Vero cells undergoing primary infection. Mass spectrometry analysis demonstrated that cytoplasmic LANA isoforms were full length, containing the N-terminal nuclear localization signal. These results suggest that trafficking of LANA to different subcellular locations is a regulated phenomenon, which allows LANA to interact with cellular components in different compartments during both the latent and the replicative stages of the KSHV life cycle.IMPORTANCE Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) causes AIDS-related malignancies, including lymphomas and Kaposi's sarcoma. KSHV establishes lifelong infections using its latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA). During latency, LANA localizes to the nucleus, where it connects viral and cellular DNA complexes and regulates gene expression, allowing the virus to maintain long-term infections. Our research shows that intact LANA traffics to the cytoplasm of cells undergoing permissive lytic infections and latently infected cells in which the virus is induced to replicate. This suggests that LANA plays important roles in the cytoplasm and nuclear compartments of the cell during different stages of the KSHV life cycle. Determining cytoplasmic function and mechanism for regulation of the nuclear localization of LANA will enhance our understanding of the biology of this virus, leading to therapeutic approaches to eliminate infection and block its pathological effects.
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Sorel O, Chen T, Myster F, Javaux J, Vanderplasschen A, Dewals BG. Macavirus latency-associated protein evades immune detection through regulation of protein synthesis in cis depending upon its glycin/glutamate-rich domain. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006691. [PMID: 29059246 PMCID: PMC5695634 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2017] [Revised: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 10/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) is a γ-herpesvirus (γ-HV) belonging to the macavirus genus that persistently infects its natural host, the wildebeest, without inducing any clinical sign. However, cross-transmission to other ruminant species causes a deadly lymphoproliferative disease named malignant catarrhal fever (MCF). AlHV-1 ORF73 encodes the latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA)-homolog protein (aLANA). Recently, aLANA has been shown to be essential for viral persistence in vivo and induction of MCF, suggesting that aLANA shares key properties of other γ-HV genome maintenance proteins. Here we have investigated the evasion of the immune response by aLANA. We found that a glycin/glutamate (GE)-rich repeat domain was sufficient to inhibit in cis the presentation of an epitope linked to aLANA. Although antigen presentation in absence of GE was dependent upon proteasomal degradation of aLANA, a lack of GE did not affect protein turnover. However, protein self-synthesis de novo was downregulated by aLANA GE, a mechanism directly associated with reduced antigen presentation in vitro. Importantly, codon-modification of aLANA GE resulted in increased antigen presentation in vitro and enhanced induction of antigen-specific CD8+ T cell responses in vivo, indicating that mRNA constraints in GE rather than peptidic sequence are responsible for cis-limitation of antigen presentation. Nonetheless, GE-mediated limitation of antigen presentation in cis of aLANA was dispensable during MCF as rabbits developed the disease after virus infection irrespective of the expression of full-length or GE-deficient aLANA. Altogether, we provide evidence that inhibition in cis of protein synthesis through GE is likely involved in long-term immune evasion of AlHV-1 latent persistence in the wildebeest natural host, but dispensable in MCF pathogenesis.
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- Océane Sorel
- Immunology-Vaccinology, Department of infectious and parasitic diseases, Faculty of Veterinary medicine–FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Immunology-Vaccinology, Department of infectious and parasitic diseases, Faculty of Veterinary medicine–FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Immunology-Vaccinology, Department of infectious and parasitic diseases, Faculty of Veterinary medicine–FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Immunology-Vaccinology, Department of infectious and parasitic diseases, Faculty of Veterinary medicine–FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Immunology-Vaccinology, Department of infectious and parasitic diseases, Faculty of Veterinary medicine–FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Immunology-Vaccinology, Department of infectious and parasitic diseases, Faculty of Veterinary medicine–FARAH, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Habison AC, de Miranda MP, Beauchemin C, Tan M, Cerqueira SA, Correia B, Ponnusamy R, Usherwood EJ, McVey CE, Simas JP, Kaye KM. Cross-species conservation of episome maintenance provides a basis for in vivo investigation of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus LANA. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006555. [PMID: 28910389 PMCID: PMC5599060 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Many pathogens, including Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), lack tractable small animal models. KSHV persists as a multi-copy, nuclear episome in latently infected cells. KSHV latency-associated nuclear antigen (kLANA) binds viral terminal repeat (kTR) DNA to mediate episome persistence. Model pathogen murine gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV68) mLANA acts analogously on mTR DNA. kLANA and mLANA differ substantially in size and kTR and mTR show little sequence conservation. Here, we find kLANA and mLANA act reciprocally to mediate episome persistence of TR DNA. Further, kLANA rescued mLANA deficient MHV68, enabling a chimeric virus to establish latent infection in vivo in germinal center B cells. The level of chimeric virus in vivo latency was moderately reduced compared to WT infection, but WT or chimeric MHV68 infected cells had similar viral genome copy numbers as assessed by immunofluorescence of LANA intranuclear dots or qPCR. Thus, despite more than 60 Ma of evolutionary divergence, mLANA and kLANA act reciprocally on TR DNA, and kLANA functionally substitutes for mLANA, allowing kLANA investigation in vivo. Analogous chimeras may allow in vivo investigation of genes of other human pathogens.
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- Aline C. Habison
- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Bioliogica Antonio Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Bioliogica Antonio Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Bioliogica Antonio Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- * E-mail: (KMK); (JPS)
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (KMK); (JPS)
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Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen: Replicating and Shielding Viral DNA during Viral Persistence. J Virol 2017; 91:JVI.01083-16. [PMID: 28446671 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01083-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) establishes lifelong latency. The viral latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) promotes viral persistence by tethering the viral genome to cellular chromosomes and by participating in latent DNA replication. Recently, the structure of the LANA C-terminal DNA binding domain was solved and new cytoplasmic variants of LANA were discovered. We discuss how these findings contribute to our current view of LANA structure and assembly and of its role during viral persistence.
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Mariggiò G, Koch S, Zhang G, Weidner-Glunde M, Rückert J, Kati S, Santag S, Schulz TF. Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV) Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen (LANA) recruits components of the MRN (Mre11-Rad50-NBS1) repair complex to modulate an innate immune signaling pathway and viral latency. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006335. [PMID: 28430817 PMCID: PMC5415203 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2016] [Revised: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV), a γ2-herpesvirus and class 1 carcinogen, is responsible for at least three human malignancies: Kaposi Sarcoma (KS), Primary Effusion Lymphoma (PEL) and Multicentric Castleman's Disease (MCD). Its major nuclear latency protein, LANA, is indispensable for the maintenance and replication of latent viral DNA in infected cells. Although LANA is mainly a nuclear protein, cytoplasmic isoforms of LANA exist and can act as antagonists of the cytoplasmic DNA sensor, cGAS. Here, we show that cytosolic LANA also recruits members of the MRN (Mre11-Rad50-NBS1) repair complex in the cytosol and thereby inhibits their recently reported role in the sensing of cytoplasmic DNA and activation of the NF-κB pathway. Inhibition of NF-κB activation by cytoplasmic LANA is accompanied by increased lytic replication in KSHV-infected cells, suggesting that MRN-dependent NF-κB activation contributes to KSHV latency. Cytoplasmic LANA may therefore support the activation of KSHV lytic replication in part by counteracting the activation of NF-κB in response to cytoplasmic DNA. This would complement the recently described role of cytoplasmic LANA in blocking an interferon response triggered by cGAS and thereby promoting lytic reactivation. Our findings highlight a second point at which cytoplasmic LANA interferes with the innate immune response, as well as the importance of the recently discovered role of cytoplasmic MRN complex members as innate sensors of cytoplasmic DNA for the control of KSHV replication.
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MESH Headings
- Acid Anhydride Hydrolases
- Antigens, Viral/genetics
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Antigens, Viral/metabolism
- Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics
- Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism
- Cytoplasm/metabolism
- DNA Repair Enzymes/genetics
- DNA Repair Enzymes/metabolism
- DNA Replication
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- HEK293 Cells
- Herpesvirus 8, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 8, Human/immunology
- Herpesvirus 8, Human/physiology
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate
- MRE11 Homologue Protein
- Models, Biological
- NF-kappa B/genetics
- NF-kappa B/metabolism
- Nuclear Proteins/genetics
- Nuclear Proteins/immunology
- Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
- Protein Isoforms
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/immunology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/virology
- Signal Transduction
- Virus Latency
- Virus Replication
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- Giuseppe Mariggiò
- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research, Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany
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Long and Short Isoforms of the Human Cytomegalovirus UL138 Protein Silence IE Transcription and Promote Latency. J Virol 2016; 90:9483-94. [PMID: 27512069 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01547-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Accepted: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED The UL133-138 locus present in clinical strains of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) encodes proteins required for latency and reactivation in CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitor cells and virion maturation in endothelial cells. The encoded proteins form multiple homo- and hetero-interactions and localize within secretory membranes. One of these genes, UL136 gene, is expressed as at least five different protein isoforms with overlapping and unique functions. Here we show that another gene from this locus, the UL138 gene, also generates more than one protein isoform. A long form of UL138 (pUL138-L) initiates translation from codon 1, possesses an amino-terminal signal sequence, and is a type one integral membrane protein. Here we identify a short protein isoform (pUL138-S) initiating from codon 16 that displays a subcellular localization similar to that of pUL138-L. Reporter, short-term transcription, and long-term virus production assays revealed that both pUL138-L and pUL138-S are able to suppress major immediate early (IE) gene transcription and the generation of infectious virions in cells in which HCMV latency is studied. The long form appears to be more potent at silencing IE transcription shortly after infection, while the short form seems more potent at restricting progeny virion production at later times, indicating that both isoforms of UL138 likely cooperate to promote HCMV latency. IMPORTANCE Latency allows herpesviruses to persist for the lives of their hosts in the face of effective immune control measures for productively infected cells. Controlling latent reservoirs is an attractive antiviral approach complicated by knowledge deficits for how latently infected cells are established, maintained, and reactivated. This is especially true for betaherpesviruses. The functional consequences of HCMV UL138 protein expression during latency include repression of viral IE1 transcription and suppression of virus replication. Here we show that short and long isoforms of UL138 exist and can themselves support latency but may do so in temporally distinct manners. Understanding the complexity of gene expression and its impact on latency is important for considering potential antivirals targeting latent reservoirs.
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Atkins JF, Loughran G, Bhatt PR, Firth AE, Baranov PV. Ribosomal frameshifting and transcriptional slippage: From genetic steganography and cryptography to adventitious use. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:7007-78. [PMID: 27436286 PMCID: PMC5009743 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Genetic decoding is not ‘frozen’ as was earlier thought, but dynamic. One facet of this is frameshifting that often results in synthesis of a C-terminal region encoded by a new frame. Ribosomal frameshifting is utilized for the synthesis of additional products, for regulatory purposes and for translational ‘correction’ of problem or ‘savior’ indels. Utilization for synthesis of additional products occurs prominently in the decoding of mobile chromosomal element and viral genomes. One class of regulatory frameshifting of stable chromosomal genes governs cellular polyamine levels from yeasts to humans. In many cases of productively utilized frameshifting, the proportion of ribosomes that frameshift at a shift-prone site is enhanced by specific nascent peptide or mRNA context features. Such mRNA signals, which can be 5′ or 3′ of the shift site or both, can act by pairing with ribosomal RNA or as stem loops or pseudoknots even with one component being 4 kb 3′ from the shift site. Transcriptional realignment at slippage-prone sequences also generates productively utilized products encoded trans-frame with respect to the genomic sequence. This too can be enhanced by nucleic acid structure. Together with dynamic codon redefinition, frameshifting is one of the forms of recoding that enriches gene expression.
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- John F Atkins
- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Division of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Caviness K, Bughio F, Crawford LB, Streblow DN, Nelson JA, Caposio P, Goodrum F. Complex Interplay of the UL136 Isoforms Balances Cytomegalovirus Replication and Latency. mBio 2016; 7:e01986. [PMID: 26933055 PMCID: PMC4810493 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01986-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2015] [Accepted: 01/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a betaherpesvirus, persists indefinitely in the human host through poorly understood mechanisms. The UL136 gene is carried within a genetic locus important to HCMV latency termed the UL133/8 locus, which also carries UL133, UL135, and UL138. Previously, we demonstrated that UL136 is expressed as five protein isoforms ranging from 33-kDa to 19-kDa, arising from alternative transcription and, likely, translation initiation mechanisms. We previously showed that the UL136 isoforms are largely dispensable for virus infection in fibroblasts, a model for productive virus replication. In our current work, UL136 has emerged as a complex regulator of HCMV infection in multiple contexts of infection relevant to HCMV persistence: in an endothelial cell (EC) model of chronic infection, in a CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) model of latency, and in an in vivo NOD-scid IL2Rγc (null) humanized (huNSG) mouse model for latency. The 33- and 26-kDa isoforms promote replication, while the 23- and 19-kDa isoforms suppress replication in ECs, in CD34(+) HPCs, and in huNSG mice. The role of the 25-kDa isoform is context dependent and influences the activity of the other isoforms. These isoforms localize throughout the secretory pathway, and loss of the 33- and 26-kDa UL136 isoforms results in virus maturation defects in ECs. This work reveals an intriguing functional interplay between protein isoforms that impacts virus replication, latency, and dissemination, contributing to the overall role of the UL133/8 locus in HCMV infection. IMPORTANCE The persistence of DNA viruses, and particularly of herpesviruses, remains an enigma because we have not completely defined the viral and host factors important to persistence. Human cytomegalovirus, a herpesvirus, persists in the absence of disease in immunocompetent individuals but poses a serious disease threat to transplant patients and the developing fetus. There is no vaccine, and current therapies do not target latent reservoirs. In an effort to define the viral factors important to persistence, we have studied viral genes with no known viral replication function in contexts important to HCMV persistence. Using models relevant to viral persistence, we demonstrate opposing roles of protein isoforms encoded by the UL136 gene in regulating latent and replicative states of infection. Our findings reveal an intriguing interplay between UL136 protein isoforms and define UL136 as an important regulator of HCMV persistence.
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- Katie Caviness
- Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
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- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
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- Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Cytoplasmic isoforms of Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus LANA recruit and antagonize the innate immune DNA sensor cGAS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:E1034-43. [PMID: 26811480 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516812113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) of Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is mainly localized and functions in the nucleus of latently infected cells, playing a pivotal role in the replication and maintenance of latent viral episomal DNA. In addition, N-terminally truncated cytoplasmic isoforms of LANA, resulting from internal translation initiation, have been reported, but their function is unknown. Using coimmunoprecipitation and MS, we found the cGMP-AMP synthase (cGAS), an innate immune DNA sensor, to be a cellular interaction partner of cytoplasmic LANA isoforms. By directly binding to cGAS, LANA, and particularly, a cytoplasmic isoform, inhibit the cGAS-STING-dependent phosphorylation of TBK1 and IRF3 and thereby antagonize the cGAS-mediated restriction of KSHV lytic replication. We hypothesize that cytoplasmic forms of LANA, whose expression increases during lytic replication, inhibit cGAS to promote the reactivation of the KSHV from latency. This observation points to a novel function of the cytoplasmic isoforms of LANA during lytic replication and extends the function of LANA from its role during latency to the lytic replication cycle.
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Li S, Tan M, Juillard F, Ponnusamy R, Correia B, Simas JP, Carrondo MA, McVey CE, Kaye KM. The Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus Latency-associated Nuclear Antigen DNA Binding Domain Dorsal Positive Electrostatic Patch Facilitates DNA Replication and Episome Persistence. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:28084-28096. [PMID: 26420481 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.674622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) has a causative role in several human malignancies. KSHV latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) mediates persistence of viral episomes in latently infected cells. LANA mediates KSHV DNA replication and segregates episomes to progeny nuclei. The structure of the LANA DNA binding domain was recently solved, revealing a positive electrostatic patch opposite the DNA binding surface, which is the site of BET protein binding. Here we investigate the functional role of the positive patch in LANA-mediated episome persistence. As expected, LANA mutants with alanine or glutamate substitutions in the central, peripheral, or lateral portions of the positive patch maintained the ability to bind DNA by EMSA. However, all of the substitution mutants were deficient for LANA DNA replication and episome maintenance. Mutation of the peripheral region generated the largest deficiencies. Despite these deficiencies, all positive patch mutants concentrated to dots along mitotic chromosomes in cells containing episomes, similar to LANA. The central and peripheral mutants, but not the lateral mutants, were reduced for BET protein interaction as assessed by co-immunoprecipitation. However, defects in BET protein binding were independent of episome maintenance function. Overall, the reductions in episome maintenance closely correlated with DNA replication deficiencies, suggesting that the replication defects account for the reduced episome persistence. Therefore, the electrostatic patch exerts a key role in LANA-mediated DNA replication and episome persistence and may act through a host cell partner(s) other than a BET protein or by inducing specific structures or complexes.
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- Shijun Li
- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115.
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Identification of Caspase Cleavage Sites in KSHV Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen and Their Effects on Caspase-Related Host Defense Responses. PLoS Pathog 2015. [PMID: 26218605 PMCID: PMC4517896 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), also known as human herpesvirus-8, is the causative agent of three hyperproliferative disorders: Kaposi’s sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and multicentric Castleman’s disease. During viral latency a small subset of viral genes are produced, including KSHV latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA), which help the virus thwart cellular defense responses. We found that exposure of KSHV-infected cells to oxidative stress, or other inducers of apoptosis and caspase activation, led to processing of LANA and that this processing could be inhibited with the pan-caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-FMK. Using sequence, peptide, and mutational analysis, two caspase cleavage sites within LANA were identified: a site for caspase-3 type caspases at the N-terminus and a site for caspase-1 and-3 type caspases at the C-terminus. Using LANA expression plasmids, we demonstrated that mutation of these cleavage sites prevents caspase-1 and caspase-3 processing of LANA. This indicates that these are the principal sites that are susceptible to caspase cleavage. Using peptides spanning the identified LANA cleavage sites, we show that caspase activity can be inhibited in vitro and that a cell-permeable peptide spanning the C-terminal cleavage site could inhibit cleavage of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase and increase viability in cells undergoing etoposide-induced apoptosis. The C-terminal peptide of LANA also inhibited interleukin-1beta (IL-1β) production from lipopolysaccharide-treated THP-1 cells by more than 50%. Furthermore, mutation of the two cleavage sites in LANA led to a significant increase in IL-1β production in transfected THP-1 cells; this provides evidence that these sites function to blunt the inflammasome, which is known to be activated in latently infected PEL cells. These results suggest that specific caspase cleavage sites in KSHV LANA function to blunt apoptosis as well as interfere with the caspase-1-mediated inflammasome, thus thwarting key cellular defense mechanisms. Upon infecting a target cell, viruses must be able to overcome cellular defense responses to survive. Two of the most important cellular defense responses against viruses are apoptosis and the inflammasome, a component of the innate immune response. Apoptosis, a programmed cell death, functions to limit the spread of viruses by destroying the infected cell while innate immune responses control viral infections through other means. Both apoptosis and the inflammasome are mediated by caspases. However, many viruses are known to encode proteins that block, suppress or delay caspase activity following cellular infection in order to block cell death and interfere with the inflammasome. We show that LANA undergoes caspase-dependent cleavage in Kaposi’s sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV)-infected cells, especially when exposed to oxidative stress. Through peptide, sequence and mutational analysis, we identified two sites for caspase cleavage in KSHV LANA, one in the N-terminal region and the other in the C-terminal region. Using synthetic peptides of these cleavage sites, we show that the C-terminal site can inhibit cleavage of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase and enhance cellular survival. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this synthetic peptide inhibits the inflammasome response as evidenced by decreased interleukin-1beta (IL-1β) production. Mutation of these cleavage sites in LANA leads to a significant increase in the inflammasome response indicated by increased IL-1β production compared to wild-type LANA. Taken in total, these results provide evidence that these cleavage sites in LANA participate both in delaying apoptosis and blunting aspects of the innate immune response. These studies provide new insights into the mechanisms by which KSHV obviates the cellular defense responses that are activated following virus infection.
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Herpesviral mRNAs are produced and translated by cellular machinery, rendering them susceptible to the network of regulatory events that impact translation. In response, these viruses have evolved to infiltrate and hijack translational control pathways as well as to integrate specialized host translation strategies into their own repertoire. They are robust systems to dissect mechanisms of mammalian translational regulation and continue to offer insight into cis-acting mRNA features that impact assembly and activity of the translation apparatus. Here, I discuss recent advances revealing the extent to which the three herpesvirus subfamilies regulate both host and viral translation, thereby dramatically impacting the landscape of protein synthesis in infected cells.
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- Britt A Glaunsinger
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720;
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Complex expression of the UL136 gene of human cytomegalovirus results in multiple protein isoforms with unique roles in replication. J Virol 2014; 88:14412-25. [PMID: 25297993 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02711-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a complex DNA virus with a 230-kb genome encoding 170 and up to 750 proteins. The upper limit of this coding capacity suggests the evolution of complex mechanisms to substantially increase the coding potential from the 230-kb genome. Our work examines the complexity of one gene, UL136, encoded within the ULb' region of the genome that is lost during serial passage of HCMV in cultured fibroblasts. UL136 is expressed as five protein isoforms. We mapped these isoforms and demonstrate that they originate from both a complex transcriptional profile and, possibly, the usage of multiple translation initiation sites. Intriguingly, the pUL136 isoforms exhibited distinct subcellular distributions with varying association with the Golgi apparatus. The subcellular localization of membrane-bound isoforms of UL136 differed between when they were expressed exogenously and when they were expressed in the context of viral infection, suggesting that the trafficking of these isoforms is mediated by infection-specific factors. While UL136, like most ULb' genes, was dispensable for replication in fibroblasts, the soluble 23- and 19-kDa isoforms suppressed virus replication. In CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) infected in vitro, disruption of the 23- and 19-kDa isoforms resulted in increased replication and a loss of the latency phenotype, similar to the effects of the UL138 latency determinant encoded within the same genetic locus. Our work suggests a complex interplay between the UL136 isoforms which balances viral replication in multiple cell types and likely contributes to the cell type-dependent phenotypes of the UL133/8 locus and the outcome of HCMV infection. IMPORTANCE HCMV is a significant cause of morbidity in immunocompromised individuals, including transplant patients. The lifelong persistence of the virus results in a high seroprevalence worldwide and may contribute to age-related pathologies, such as atherosclerosis. The mechanisms of viral persistence are poorly understood; however, understanding the molecular basis of persistence is imperative for the development of new treatments. In this work, we characterize a complex HCMV gene, UL136, which is expressed as five protein isoforms. These isoforms arise predominantly from complex transcriptional mechanisms, which contribute to an increased coding capacity of the virus. Further, the UL136 isoforms oppose the activity of one another to balance HCMV replication in multiple cell types. We identify soluble isoforms of UL136 that function to suppress virus replication in fibroblasts and in CD34(+) HPCs for latency.
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Human DNA tumor viruses generate alternative reading frame proteins through repeat sequence recoding. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:E4342-9. [PMID: 25271323 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416122111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are human DNA tumor viruses that express nuclear antigens [latency-associated nuclear antigen 1 (LANA1) and Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA1)] necessary to maintain and replicate the viral genome. We report here that both LANA1 and EBNA1 undergo highly efficient +1/-2 programmed ribosomal frameshifting to generate previously undescribed alternative reading frame (ARF) proteins in their repeat regions. EBNA1(ARF) encodes a KSHV LANA-like glutamine- and glutamic acid-rich protein, whereas KSHV LANA1(ARF) encodes a serine/arginine-like protein. Repeat sequence recoding has not been described previously for human DNA viruses. Programmed frameshifting (recoding) to generate multiple proteins from one RNA sequence can increase the coding capacity of a virus, without incurring a selective penalty against increased capsid size. The presence of similar repeat sequences in cellular genes, such as huntingtin, suggests that a comparison of repeat recoding in virus and human systems may provide functional and mechanistic insights for both systems.
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Downregulation of IRF4 induces lytic reactivation of KSHV in primary effusion lymphoma cells. Virology 2014; 458-459:4-10. [PMID: 24928034 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2013] [Revised: 01/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), associated with the latent infection by KSHV, constitutively expresses interferon-regulatory factor 4 (IRF4). We recently showed that IRF4 differentially regulates expression of cellular interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) and viral genes (Forero et al., 2013). Here, using inducible IRF4 knockdown, we demonstrate that IRF4 silencing results in enhanced transcription of KSHV replication transactivator RTA. As a result viral transcription is increased leading to virus reactivation. Taken together, our results show that IRF4 helps maintain the balance between latency and KSHV reactivation in PEL cells.
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Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Subversion of the Anti-Inflammatory Response in Human Skin Cells Reveals Correlates of Latency and Disease Pathogenesis. J Skin Cancer 2014; 2014:246076. [PMID: 24701351 PMCID: PMC3951102 DOI: 10.1155/2014/246076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Revised: 12/14/2013] [Accepted: 12/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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KSHV is the etiologic agent for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), a neoplasm that manifests most aggressively as multifocal lesions on parts of human skin with a propensity for inflammatory reactivity. However, mechanisms that control evolution of KS from a benign hyperplasia to the histologically complex cutaneous lesion remain unknown. In this study, we found that KSHV induces proteomic and morphological changes in melanocytes and melanoma-derived cell lines, accompanied by deregulation of the endogenous anti-inflammatory responses anchored by the MC1-R/α-MSH signaling axis. We also identified two skin-derived cell lines that displayed differences in ability to support long-term KSHV infection and mapped this dichotomy to differences in (a) NF-κB activation status, (b) processing and expression of KSHV latency-associated nuclear antigen isoforms putatively associated with the viral lytic cycle, and (c) susceptibility to virus-induced changes in expression of key anti-inflammatory response genes that antagonize NF-κB, including MC1-R, POMC, TRP-1, and xCT. Viral subversion of molecules that control the balance between latency and lytic replication represents a novel correlate of KSHV pathogenesis and tropism in skin and underscores the potential benefit of harnessing the endogenous anti-inflammatory processes as a therapeutic option for attenuating cutaneous KS and other proinflammatory outcomes of KSHV infection in high-risk individuals.
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Liao H, Lee JH, Kondo R, Katata M, Imadome KI, Miyado K, Inoue N, Fujiwara S, Nakamura H. The highly conserved human cytomegalovirus UL136 ORF generates multiple Golgi-localizing protein isoforms through differential translation initiation. Virus Res 2013; 179:241-6. [PMID: 24269349 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2013] [Revised: 11/03/2013] [Accepted: 11/04/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The UL133-UL138 locus in the unique long b' (ULb') region of the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) genome is considered to play certain roles in viral replication, dissemination and latency in a host cell type-dependent manner. Here we characterized the proteins encoded by UL136, one of the open reading frames (ORFs) in the locus. Comparative sequence analysis of UL136 among clinical isolates and laboratory strains indicates that its predicted amino-acid sequence is highly conserved. A polyclonal antibody against UL136 proteins (pUL136s) was raised against its carboxy-terminal region and this antibody specifically recognized at least five UL136-encoded protein isoforms of 29-17 kDa both in HCMV-infected cells and in cells transfected with a construct expressing pUL136. Immunofluorescence analysis with this antibody revealed localization of pUL136 in the Golgi apparatus. Analysis of several pUL136 mutants indicated that the putative transmembrane domain of pUL136 is required for its Golgi localization. Mutational analysis of multiple AUG codons in UL136 demonstrated that translation initiation from these AUG codons contributes in the generation of pUL136 isoforms.
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- Huanan Liao
- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan
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- Department of Reproductive Biology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan
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- Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Japan.
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Forero A, Moore PS, Sarkar SN. Role of IRF4 in IFN-stimulated gene induction and maintenance of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus latency in primary effusion lymphoma cells. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2013; 191:1476-85. [PMID: 23804715 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1202514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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IFN regulatory factor (IRF) 4 is a hematopoietic cell-specific transcription factor that regulates the maturation and differentiation of immune cells. Using an inducible expression system, we found that IRF4 directly induced a specific subset of IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs) in a type I IFN-independent manner in both epithelial and B cell lines. Moreover, Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV)-encoded viral FLICE inhibitory protein (vFLIP) enhances IRF4-mediated gene induction. Coexpression of IRF4 with vFLIP significantly increased ISG60 (IFIT3) and Cig5 (RSAD2) transcription that was dependent on the ability of vFLIP to activate NF-κB. A vFLIP mutant (A57L) defective in NF-κB activation failed to enhance IRF4-mediated ISG induction. Thus, we provide a physiologically relevant mechanism by which viral protein-mediated NF-κB activation modulates specific ISG induction by IRF4. In contrast, IRF4 also acted as a negative regulator of KSHV replication and transcription activator expression after induction of KSHV lytic reactivation in KSHV-positive primary effusion lymphoma cells. Taken together, these results suggest a dual role for IRF4 in regulating ISG induction and KSHV lytic reactivation in primary effusion lymphoma cells.
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- Adriana Forero
- Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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