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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was the first human cancer-causing virus to be discovered over fifty years ago. Given its relatively large genome size for a virus and hence the capacity to store more than mere protein-coding information, EBV also harbours genetic material for producing an array of distinct noncoding (nc)RNAs. The double-stranded nature of its DNA genome allows the utilization of the whole gamut of ncRNA types, including both RNA polymerase II and III transcripts, in devising a sophisticated strategy to ensure its replication upon infection in host cells and evasion of host immune responses. Owing to the development of sensitive technologies in recent years, mostly entailing next-generation sequencing, the list of ncRNA types generated by EBV has expanded now to include two RNAs (EBER1 and EBER2) best categorized as long ncRNAs, dozens of microRNAs, one small nucleolar RNA, stable intronic sequence RNAs, and the most recently discovered circular RNAs. With the application of cutting-edge technology, the molecular mechanisms of some of these noncoding transcripts are beginning to emerge, while others remain yet to be elucidated. As viruses often take advantage of existing molecular pathways established by the host, it is likely that further novel concepts of the greatly unexplored noncoding world can be learned from studying the many EBV ncRNAs.
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- Nara Lee
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Terminal Repeat Analysis of EBV Genomes. Methods Mol Biol 2016. [PMID: 27873275 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6655-4_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was the first human virus associated directly with human malignancies. During EBV infection of various host cells the double-stranded linear EBV DNA carried by the virions undergoes circularization. Since there are variable numbers of terminal repetitions (TRs) at the ends of the linear EBV genome, the resulting circular episomes enclose a variable number of TRs. Thus, in cells carrying viral episomes, the sizes of the terminal restriction enzyme fragments of EBV is affected by the number of TRs (Raab-Traub and Flynn Cell 47:883-889, 1986). Southern blot analysis revealed that in monoclonal proliferations, arising from a single cell, there was only a single band representing the joined EBV termini, whereas multiple terminal restriction enzyme fragments that differ in size were characteristic for oligoclonal or polyclonal proliferations. Using suitable probes, one can distinguish the episomal form from the linear EBV genomes that are formed during lytic EBV replication or during integration into the host genome. TR analysis is a useful tool for the determination of EBV clonality in different clinical samples and in cell lines carrying EBV genomes. A single terminal restriction enzyme fragment may indicate EBV infection at an early phase of clonal cell proliferation, whereas polyclonal EBV genomes may derive from multiple infections of proliferating cells.
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Lee N, Steitz JA. Noncoding RNA-guided recruitment of transcription factors: A prevalent but undocumented mechanism? Bioessays 2015; 37:936-41. [PMID: 26200477 PMCID: PMC4721591 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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High-fidelity binding of transcription factors (TFs) to DNA target sites is fundamental for proper regulation of cellular processes, as well as for the maintenance of cell identity. Recognition of cognate binding motifs in the genome is attributed by and large to the DNA binding domains of TFs. As an additional mode of conferring binding specificity, noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been proposed to assist associated TFs in finding their binding sites by interacting with either DNA or RNA in the vicinity of their target loci. However, a well-documented example of such a mechanism was lacking until we recently reported that a ncRNA made by Epstein-Barr virus uses an RNA-RNA interaction with nascent transcripts generated from the viral genome to facilitate the recruitment of an interacting TF, PAX5, to viral DNA. This proof-of-principle finding suggests that cellular ncRNAs may likewise function in guiding interacting TFs to chromatin target sites.
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- Nara Lee
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Lee N, Moss WN, Yario TA, Steitz JA. EBV noncoding RNA binds nascent RNA to drive host PAX5 to viral DNA. Cell 2015; 160:607-618. [PMID: 25662012 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2014] [Revised: 11/14/2014] [Accepted: 01/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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EBER2 is an abundant nuclear noncoding RNA expressed by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Probing its possible chromatin localization by CHART revealed EBER2's presence at the terminal repeats (TRs) of the latent EBV genome, overlapping previously identified binding sites for the B cell transcription factor PAX5. EBER2 interacts with PAX5 and is required for the localization of PAX5 to the TRs. EBER2 knockdown phenocopies PAX5 depletion in upregulating the expression of LMP2A/B and LMP1, genes nearest the TRs. Knockdown of EBER2 also decreases EBV lytic replication, underscoring the essential role of the TRs in viral replication. Recruitment of the EBER2-PAX5 complex is mediated by base-pairing between EBER2 and nascent transcripts from the TR locus. The interaction is evolutionarily conserved in the related primate herpesvirus CeHV15 despite great sequence divergence. Using base-pairing with nascent RNA to guide an interacting transcription factor to its DNA target site is a previously undescribed function for a trans-acting noncoding RNA.
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- Nara Lee
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.
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Palermo RD, Webb HM, West MJ. RNA polymerase II stalling promotes nucleosome occlusion and pTEFb recruitment to drive immortalization by Epstein-Barr virus. PLoS Pathog 2011; 7:e1002334. [PMID: 22046134 PMCID: PMC3203192 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2011] [Accepted: 09/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immortalizes resting B-cells and is a key etiologic agent in the development of numerous cancers. The essential EBV-encoded protein EBNA 2 activates the viral C promoter (Cp) producing a message of ~120 kb that is differentially spliced to encode all EBNAs required for immortalization. We have previously shown that EBNA 2-activated transcription is dependent on the activity of the RNA polymerase II (pol II) C-terminal domain (CTD) kinase pTEFb (CDK9/cyclin T1). We now demonstrate that Cp, in contrast to two shorter EBNA 2-activated viral genes (LMP 1 and 2A), displays high levels of promoter-proximally stalled pol II despite being constitutively active. Consistent with pol II stalling, we detect considerable pausing complex (NELF/DSIF) association with Cp. Significantly, we observe substantial Cp-specific pTEFb recruitment that stimulates high-level pol II CTD serine 2 phosphorylation at distal regions (up to +75 kb), promoting elongation. We reveal that Cp-specific pol II accumulation is directed by DNA sequences unfavourable for nucleosome assembly that increase TBP access and pol II recruitment. Stalled pol II then maintains Cp nucleosome depletion. Our data indicate that pTEFb is recruited to Cp by the bromodomain protein Brd4, with polymerase stalling facilitating stable association of pTEFb. The Brd4 inhibitor JQ1 and the pTEFb inhibitors DRB and Flavopiridol significantly reduce Cp, but not LMP1 transcript production indicating that Brd4 and pTEFb are required for Cp transcription. Taken together our data indicate that pol II stalling at Cp promotes transcription of essential immortalizing genes during EBV infection by (i) preventing promoter-proximal nucleosome assembly and ii) necessitating the recruitment of pTEFb thereby maintaining serine 2 CTD phosphorylation at distal regions.
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- Richard D. Palermo
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Augmented latent membrane protein 1 expression from Epstein-Barr virus episomes with minimal terminal repeats. J Virol 2009; 84:2236-44. [PMID: 20015988 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01972-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The major oncogene of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1), can be expressed from either of two promoters, ED-L1 or L1-TR, producing mRNAs of 2.8 kb or 3.5 kb, respectively. L1-TR, active in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma, is located within the first of a highly variable reiteration of terminal repeat (TR) sequences that are joined by random recombination upon circularization of the linear genome at entry into cells. To determine whether the resultant TR number affects LMP1 promoter activity, we isolated single-cell clones bearing episomes of distinct TR numbers (6TR to 12TR) from epithelial cells newly infected with EBV. LMP1 mRNA levels correlated directly with the quantity of LMP1 protein expressed but varied inversely to TR number. Unexpectedly, the 3.5-kb transcript predominated only at lower TR reiterations. Diminished L1-TR activity in the context of a higher TR count was confirmed with a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter construct driven by L1-TR. Various levels of LMP1, expressed from virus isogenic in all but TR number, produced divergent morphological and growth phenotypes in each cell clone. Abundant LMP1 in 6TR cells yielded a relatively cytostatic state compared to the proliferative one produced by intermediate and smaller amounts in 8TR and 12TR clones. These findings suggest that the diversification of TR number, inherent in a round of EBV reactivation and reinfection, may itself be a component of the oncogenic process. The replicative burst preceding onset of many EBV-linked cancers may increase the likelihood that LMP1 levels compatible with clonal outgrowth are achieved in a subset of infected cells.
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Moody CA, Scott RS, Amirghahari N, Nathan CA, Young LS, Dawson CW, Sixbey JW. Modulation of the cell growth regulator mTOR by Epstein-Barr virus-encoded LMP2A. J Virol 2005; 79:5499-506. [PMID: 15827164 PMCID: PMC1082717 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.9.5499-5506.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Control of translation initiation is one means by which cells regulate growth and proliferation, with components of the protein-synthesizing machinery having oncogenic potential. Expression of latency protein LMP2A by the human tumor virus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) activates phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt located upstream of an essential mediator of growth signals, mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin). We show that mTOR is activated by expression of LMP2A in carcinoma cells, leading to wortmannin- and rapamycin-sensitive inhibition of the negative regulator of translation, eukaryotic initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1, and increased c-Myc protein translation. Intervention by this DNA tumor virus in cellular translational controls is likely to be an integral component of EBV tumorigenesis.
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- Cary A Moody
- Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA
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Lit LCW, Chan KCA, Leung SF, Lei KIK, Chan LYS, Chow KCK, Chan ATC, Lo YMD. Distribution of Cell-Free and Cell-Associated Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) DNA in the Blood of Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and EBV-Associated Lymphoma. Clin Chem 2004; 50:1842-5. [PMID: 15319320 DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.036640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Lydia C W Lit
- Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
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Walling DM, Andritsos LA, Etienne W, Payne DA, Aronson JF, Flaitz CM, Nichols CM. Molecular markers of clonality and identity in epstein-barr virus-associated B-cell lymphoproliferative disease. J Med Virol 2004; 74:94-101. [PMID: 15258974 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated B-cell lymphoproliferative disease may be polyclonal, oligoclonal, or monoclonal. The degree of tumor clonality reflects the disease pathogenesis and may have implications for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. In this study, specimens of EBV-associated B-cell lymphoproliferative disease obtained from immunocompromised hosts were analyzed for molecular markers of cellular and virologic clonality and virologic identity. Each tumor specimen was assessed for immunoglobulin gene JH region rearrangement, the structure of the EBV genome termini, and the EBV genotype(s) present using a new EBV genotyping assay based upon LMP-1 gene sequence variation. The results of the JH rearrangement and EBV termini assays were generally concordant in their assessment of tumor specimen clonality, and both assays contributed to establishing clonal identity between different tumor specimens. The EBV genotyping assay did not significantly contribute to the assessment of tumor clonality but did established clear virologic identity between different tumor specimens obtained from the same individual. In one individual, these three assays together characterized a multi-focal, monoclonal tumor that may have arisen through clonal selection after sequential infections with two different EBV genotypes. In summary, the JH rearrangement and EBV termini assays each provided different but complementary information on tumor clonality, while the EBV genotyping assay proved most useful for establishing virologic identity among tumors. Utilization of these three assays together may provide new insight into the pathogenesis of EBV-associated B-cell lymphoproliferative disease.
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- Dennis M Walling
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 77555-0435, USA.
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Moody CA, Scott RS, Su T, Sixbey JW. Length of Epstein-Barr virus termini as a determinant of epithelial cell clonal emergence. J Virol 2003; 77:8555-61. [PMID: 12857925 PMCID: PMC165260 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.15.8555-8561.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Reiterated terminal sequences of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA are numerically heterogeneous among infectious virions, providing a viral measure of clonality in infected cells. After in vitro infection, carcinoma cells bearing EBV episomes with fewer terminal repeats (TRs) proliferated faster. In single-cell clones, TR number varied inversely to the quantity of latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) transcripts whose unspliced precursors cross joined TRs. Thus, EBV clonality may reflect selection for a TR number that optimizes LMP2A-enhanced tumor progression, with infection occurring after epithelial cell transformation.
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- Cary A Moody
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71130, USA
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Terasawa T, Ohashi H, Utsumi M, Tsushita K, Kinoshita T, Nakamura S, Saito H. Case of Epstein-Barr virus-associated transformation of mantle cell lymphoma. Am J Hematol 2003; 73:194-9. [PMID: 12827658 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.10343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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We report here a case of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) in a patient who, following Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, developed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). A 47-year-old woman was diagnosed as having MCL with clinical stage IIIA in July 1990. After treatment with a third-generation chemotherapy without response, she was kept under observation for 8 years. In January 1999, fever and night sweats appeared with laboratory evidence for EBV infection, and acute swelling of lymph nodes and hepatosplenomegaly developed in May 1999. Histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of DLBCL. Sequence analysis of the complementarity-determining region (CDR)-III of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene demonstrated clonal identity between the initial MCL and the subsequent DLBCL. Immunohistochemistry revealed that cyclin D1, CD5, and CD20 were expressed in the MCL but lost in the DLBCL cells, and EBER-ISH confirmed that EBV infection was absent in the former but present in the latter. Southern hybridization with the EBV terminal repeat probe showed a clear monoclonal pattern in the DLBCL specimen. All these results suggest that EBV infection may have been the molecular event that caused transformation of MCL cell(s) to DLBCL in this case. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first well-documented case of EBV-associated transformation of MCL.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, CD/blood
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Neoplasm/blood
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/complications
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/genetics
- Epstein-Barr Virus Infections/pathology
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/complications
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell/virology
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Pseudogenes
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- Teruhiko Terasawa
- Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases and Department of Hematology, Nagoya National Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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Human B lymphocytes infected with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) express 11 viral genes, of which six are essential for efficient transformation. The protein products of these genes appear to cause cell growth by modifying cell signal transduction pathways. For example, EBNA-2 mimics the Notch 1 pathway and LMP-1 interacts with the signalling from CD40/CD40-L, which promotes growth in normal B cells. In the human cancers linked to EBV, most of the viral transforming genes are not expressed. It is likely that growth of these cells is controlled by a combination of the EBV genes whose expression continues with altered cell proto-oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes, but other explanations of the role of EBV in cancer cells are also possible. The presence of the virus in the tumour cells of EBV-associated cancers constitutes a potentially useful tumour specific marker that might be used to direct therapy to the tumour cells.
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- P J Farrell
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's, London, UK
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Laytragoon-Lewin N, Chen F, Avila-Carino J, Klein G, Mellstedt H. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) gene expression in lymphoid B cells during acute infectious mononucleosis (IM) and clonality of the directly growing cell lines. Int J Cancer 1997; 71:345-9. [PMID: 9139865 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19970502)71:3<345::aid-ijc6>3.0.co;2-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We examined the patterns of viral gene expression in acute infectious mononucleosis (IM) patients and the clonality of the directly growing EBV-carrying cell lines. Both low- and high-density EBV-carrying B cells obtained from the patients' tonsils expressed EBNA1, EBNA2 and LMP1. Like LCLs and immunoblastic B-cell lymphomas, the in vivo EBV-carrying low-density cells used only the latency III program for viral gene expression. The in vivo EBV-carrying high-density B cells used both the latency I program, as indicated by the QUK-, and the latency III program, as indicated by the YUK-EBNA1. This suggests that the lymphoid tissues contained not only proliferating immunoblasts but also cells programmed for latent viral persistence in vivo. EBV-carrying cells that grew directly into permanent cell lines in the presence of virus-neutralizing antibody and a late viral inhibitor were polyclonal, as indicated by JH rearrangement. Two of the high-density-derived lines had identical JH and TR patterns, indicating a common parental origin. Our investigation indicates that EBV-carrying cells divide and survive in a fully competent immune system during the outbreak of acute IM.
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- N Laytragoon-Lewin
- Department of Oncology, Radiumhemmet, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Harabuchi Y, Imai S, Wakashima J, Hirao M, Kataura A, Osato T, Kon S. Nasal T-cell lymphoma causally associated with Epstein-Barr virus: clinicopathologic, phenotypic, and genotypic studies. Cancer 1996; 77:2137-49. [PMID: 8640683 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19960515)77:10<2137::aid-cncr27>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND The authors have previously demonstrated nasal T-cell lymphoma (NTL) associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The detailed clinical, phenotypic, and genotypic features and the role of EBV in lymphomagenesis remain to be clarified. METHODS The study group consisted of 18 patients with NTL. The phenotype was determined by immunoperoxidase staining with various monoclonal antibodies. Genotypic study was done using Southern blot hybridization. The presence of EBV-encoded small nuclear early region (EBER) RNA and EBV DNA were determined by in situ hybridization. The expression of EBV-encoded nuclear antigen (EBNA) and latent membrane protein (LMP1) were identified by immunohistologic methods. Clonotypic analysis of EBV genomes was performed by Southern blot hybridization with EBV termini fragment probe. RESULTS The clinical features of NTL were characterized as prolonged fever (16 patients), widespread dissemination into distant sites (13 patients), and poor prognosis with a median survival of only 6 months. EBER transcripts were identified in 16 of 18 patients. Monoclonal EBV genomes EBNA1 and LMP1 were also detected in all EBER-positive cases tested. All 18 patients expressed pan-T antigens such as MT1, CD45RO, and/or CD2. The rearrangements of T-cell receptor (TCR)-beta, -gamma, and/or -delta genes were shown in all 11 patients tested. The natural killer (NK) cell phenotype CD56 was expressed in all EBV-positive cases tested, and was not detected in EBV-negative cases. Seven EBV-positive cases expressed a TCR-delta chain with rearranged TCR-gamma or -delta genes whereas both EBV-negative cases corresponded to alpha beta T-cell lymphoma, which expressed a TCR-beta chain with a rearranged TCR-beta gene. CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that EBV-positive NTL may be derived from the lineage of NK-like T-cells or gamma delta T-cells, and that EBV may play a role in lymphomagenesis. Therefore, we propose that NTL which has peculiar clinical and histologic features could be classified as a new lymphoma entity.
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- Y Harabuchi
- Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, Japan
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Chadburn A, Cesarman E, Liu YF, Addonizio L, Hsu D, Michler RE, Knowles DM. Molecular genetic analysis demonstrates that multiple posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders occurring in one anatomic site in a single patient represent distinct primary lymphoid neoplasms. Cancer 1995; 75:2747-56. [PMID: 7743481 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19950601)75:11<2747::aid-cncr2820751119>3.0.co;2-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders (PT-LPDs) are a clinicopathologically heterogeneous group of lymphoid proliferations of varied clonal composition, the majority of which are associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. The clonal content and clonal relatedness of 24 separate PT-LPD lesions occurring synchronously in one organ in a single patient were investigated. METHODS Twenty-four separate PT-LPD lesions from the colon and mesentery of a 15-year-old male, developing 4 months after cardiac transplantation, were studied for clonality based on immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene rearrangements for the presence, clonality, and type of EBV infection and for the presence of c-myc, ras, and p53 gene alterations. Southern blot hybridization, polymerase chain reaction, and single strand conformation polymorphism assays were employed. RESULTS All 24 lesions were histologically similar (polymorphic B-cell lymphomas) but exhibited varied clonality and were clonally distinct with respect to both IgH gene rearrangements and EBV infection. All lesions were infected with EBV type A. Structural alterations of oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes were not identified. CONCLUSIONS Separate PT-LPD lesions occurring synchronously in a single organ or patient may be clonally distinct, suggesting that they represent multiple distinct primary lymphoid proliferations rather than metastatic disease as in conventional malignant lymphomas. This may explain partially the rapid development in some patients of a large PT-LPD tumor burden that may regress rapidly after reduction of immunosuppression.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Codon/genetics
- Colonic Neoplasms/genetics
- Colonic Neoplasms/pathology
- Colonic Neoplasms/virology
- DNA, Neoplasm/analysis
- Exons/genetics
- Fatal Outcome
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain/genetics
- Genes, myc/genetics
- Genes, ras/genetics
- Heart Transplantation
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Humans
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/pathology
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- Postoperative Complications/pathology
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- A Chadburn
- Department of Pathology, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York 10021, USA
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- G Gaidano
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Oncologia Umana, Università di Torino, Ospedale San Luigi Gonzaga, Turin, Italy
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Flamand L, Stefanescu I, Ablashi DV, Menezes J. Activation of the Epstein-Barr virus replicative cycle by human herpesvirus 6. J Virol 1993; 67:6768-77. [PMID: 8411380 PMCID: PMC238118 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.11.6768-6777.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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One common attribute of herpesviruses is the ability to establish latent, life-long infections. The role of virus-virus interaction in viral reactivation between or among herpesviruses has not been studied. Preliminary experiments in our laboratory had indicated that infection of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome-positive human lymphoid cell lines with human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) results in EBV reactivation in these cells. To further our knowledge of this complex phenomenon, we investigated the effect of HHV-6 infection on expression of the viral lytic cycle proteins of EBV. Our results indicate that HHV-6 upregulates, by up to 10-fold, expression of the immediate-early Zebra antigen and the diffuse and restricted (85 kDa) early antigens (EA-D and EA-R, respectively) in both EBV producer and nonproducer cell lines (i.e., P3HR1, Akata, and Raji). Maximal EA-D induction was observed at 72 h post-HHV-6 infection. Furthermore, expression of late EBV gene products, namely, the viral capsid antigen (125 kDa) and viral membrane glycoprotein gp350, was also increased in EBV producer cells (P3HR1 and Akata) following infection by HHV-6. By using dual-color membrane immunofluorescence, it was found that most of the cells expressing viral membrane glycoprotein gp350 were also positive for HHV-6 antigens, suggesting a direct effect of HHV-6 replication on induction of the EBV replicative cycle. No expression of late EBV antigens was observed in Raji cells following infection by HHV-6, implying a lack of functional complementation between the deleted form of EBV found in Raji cells and the superinfecting HHV-6. The susceptibility of the cell lines to infection by HHV-6 correlated with increased expression of various EBV proteins in that B95-8 cells, which are not susceptible to HHV-6 infection, did not show an increase in expression of EBV antigens following treatment with HHV-6. Moreover, UV light-irradiated or heat-inactivated HHV-6 had no upregulating effect on the Zebra antigen or EA-D in Raji cells, indicating that infectious virus is required for the observed effects of HHV-6 on these EBV products. These results show that HHV-6, another lymphotropic human herpesvirus, can activate EBV replication and may thus contribute to the pathogenesis of EBV-associated diseases.
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- L Flamand
- Laboratory of Immunovirology, Ste-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Canada
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Nakanishi M, Kikuta H, Tomizawa K, Kojima K, Ishizaka A, Okano M, Sakiyama Y, Matsumoto S. Distinct clonotypic Epstein-Barr virus-induced fatal lymphoproliferative disorder in a patient with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Cancer 1993; 72:1376-81. [PMID: 8393374 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19930815)72:4<1376::aid-cncr2820720437>3.0.co;2-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Recently, reports of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced lymphoproliferative disorders (LPD) have increased in number among immunosuppressed recipients of organ transplants. The importance of analyzing both the immunoglobulin gene and EBV termini is advocated for the investigation of pathogenetic mechanisms for clonal proliferation in EBV-induced LPD; however, the oncogenic mechanisms of EBV-induced LPD remain unclear. Furthermore, there are very few clonotypic studies of EBV-induced LPD in patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases. The authors studied the clonality of an EBV-induced fatal LPD in a 20-year-old patient with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), an X-linked recessive primary immunodeficiency disease. METHODS AND RESULTS An autopsy showed non-Hodgkin lymphoma of B-cell origin with diffuse large cells in both systemic lymph nodes and extranodal organs. Immunohistochemical and Southern blot analyses showed polyclonal rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes in most of the lesions except for the pulmonary hilar lymph node. Furthermore, the analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism with several fragments from EBV genome indicated that EBV genomes in all lesions were identical; however, a single but different-sized EBV termini was detected in every EBV-positive lesion when probed with the EcoRI-Dhet spanning terminal repeat region of EBV. CONCLUSIONS The EBV-induced fatal LPD in a patient with WAS showed the characteristic clonotype, polyclonal immunoglobulin gene rearrangement, and monoclonal EBV terminal configuration. Furthermore, EBV termini in each lesion varied in size. This particular clonotype implicates several unique pathogenetic mechanisms for clonal proliferation of EBV-induced LPD.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Light Chain
- Genes, myc/genetics
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Humans
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/microbiology
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/genetics
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/microbiology
- Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/pathology
- Male
- Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome/complications
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- M Nakanishi
- Department of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Roncella S, Di Celle PF, Cutrona G, Carbone A, Sessarego M, Landonio G, Foà R, Rowe M, Ferrarini M. Cytogenetic rearrangement of C-MYC oncogene occurs prior to infection with Epstein-Barr virus in the monoclonal malignant B cells from an AIDS patient. Leuk Lymphoma 1993; 9:157-64. [PMID: 8386576 DOI: 10.3109/10428199309148520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Two cell lines were originated from the peripheral blood (PB-LAM) and bone-marrow (BM-LAM) of a patient with Burkitt-type acute lymphoblastic leukemia and AIDS. 26 and 7 clones were isolated from PB-LAM and BM-LAM respectively by limiting dilution. All of these had surface IgM lambda and the CD10 marker with low to absent CD23, CD30, CD39 and surface adhesion molecules. Furthermore, they shared the same chromosomal abnormalities (trisomy 7 and t(8;14) translocation) and the same rearrangements of immunoglobulin L and H chain and of c-myc gene loci. These features are those most frequently found in Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) cells and were different from those of the parental cell lines, which, besides cells identical to those of the malignant clones, also contained normal lymphoblastoid cells. Therefore, the cloning procedure used selected for the growth of cells with malignant features. EBV latent antigens were detected in all clones by Western blotting and their pattern of expression resembled that usually observed in BL cells. All the clones were positive for the EBV genome by Southern blotting and had monomorphic EBV-fused termini as determined by using cDNA probes specific for sequences at either end of the viral genome. However, the clones derived from PB-LAM had EBV fused termini of a different size from that of the clones derived from BM-LAM. The presence of different EBV-fused termini in otherwise monoclonal malignant cells indicate that EBV infection was possibly a late event in lymphomagenesis following rearrangement of the c-myc and the Ig gene loci.
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MESH Headings
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/complications
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, Neoplasm/analysis
- B-Lymphocytes/microbiology
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- Burkitt Lymphoma/complications
- Burkitt Lymphoma/genetics
- Burkitt Lymphoma/microbiology
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14/ultrastructure
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8/ultrastructure
- Clone Cells
- DNA, Neoplasm/analysis
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genes, myc
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/isolation & purification
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/pathogenicity
- Humans
- Lymphoma, AIDS-Related/complications
- Lymphoma, AIDS-Related/genetics
- Lymphoma, AIDS-Related/microbiology
- Neoplastic Stem Cells/microbiology
- Time Factors
- Translocation, Genetic
- Trisomy
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Tumor Virus Infections/complications
- Tumor Virus Infections/microbiology
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- S Roncella
- Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, IST, Laboratorio di Immunologia Clinica, Genova, Italy
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Novello AC. The HIV/AIDS epidemic: a current picture. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1992; 8:695-707. [PMID: 1515219 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1992.8.695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- A C Novello
- Surgeon General, Public Health Service, Washington, D.C. 20201
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Raab-Traub N, Rajadurai P, Flynn K, Lanier AP. Epstein-Barr virus infection in carcinoma of the salivary gland. J Virol 1991; 65:7032-6. [PMID: 1658395 PMCID: PMC250822 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.12.7032-7036.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Undifferentiated carcinoma of the parotid gland contains clonal Epstein-Barr virus episomes without ladder arrays of restriction enzyme fragments representing virion DNA. Analysis of Epstein-Barr virus transcription in situ in parotid carcinoma specimens revealed that the EBER RNAs, latent membrane protein mRNA, and the BamHI-A rightward reading frame, BARF0, are expressed in the malignant epithelial cells.
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- N Raab-Traub
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7295
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Lewin N, Minarovits J, Weber G, Ehlin-Henriksson B, Wen T, Mellstedt H, Klein G, Klein E. Clonality and methylation status of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genomes in in vivo-infected EBV-carrying chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cell lines. Int J Cancer 1991; 48:62-6. [PMID: 1850384 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910480112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Directly growing Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-carrying cell lines were established from a chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patient (PG) on repeated occasions. The lines carried the same ring chromosome 15 as the leukemia cells in vivo and were similarly trisomic for chromosome 12. They all showed the same JH rearrangement, indicating that they had arisen from the same B-cell progenitor. They also had the same single EBV-terminal repeat (TR), indicating that they had been generated by a single EBV infection event. It may be surmised that a single CLL cell had been infected by EBV in vivo and established itself subsequently as a subclone within the CLL population. This subpopulation persists in vivo but does not appear to expand with time. After explantation, it transforms into lymphoblastoid cells and proliferates selectively as immortalized lines. The leukemia-representative CLL lines were phenotypically indistinguishable from the B95-8 virus-transformed normal diploid cells of the patient, established in parallel by in vitro infection. They grew as typical LCL clusters and expressed the same B-cell activation markers. The methylation status of EBV-DNA was different in the CLL lines and the B95-8-virus-transformed LCLs. When Hpall- and Mspl- digested DNA was probed with BamHI C, E, H and W fragments, the CLL lines showed a mixture of methylated and unmethylated restriction fragments as in certain EBV-carrying Burkitt lymphoma (BL) lines. In contrast, the EBV-DNA of B95-8 virus-transformed normal diploid cells was completely unmethylated, as in other LCLs.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, Viral/analysis
- Cell Line
- Cloning, Molecular/methods
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- DNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear Antigens
- Genes, Viral
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology
- Humans
- Lymphocytes/immunology
- Lymphocytes/microbiology
- Methylation
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/genetics
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/microbiology
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Restriction Mapping
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- N Lewin
- Dept. of Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Sato H, Takimoto T, Tanaka S, Tanaka J, Raab-Traub N. Concatameric replication of Epstein-Barr virus: structure of the termini in virus-producer and newly transformed cell lines. J Virol 1990; 64:5295-300. [PMID: 2170673 PMCID: PMC248575 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.11.5295-5300.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The linear form of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA has homologous direct tandem repeats of approximately 500 bp at each terminus (TR). After infection, EBV DNA circularizes via the TR to form the intracellular episomal DNA. To analyze the mechanism of the synthesis of linear DNA through possible replicative intermediates, the terminal fragments were identified in the total intracellular DNA and the covalently closed circular DNA from a productively infected cell line after induction of replication or after treatment with an inhibitor of viral DNA synthesis. These studies indicate that some of the fused terminal fragments detected in the total intracellular DNA are replication-dependent forms which are selectively excluded from the covalently closed circular fraction and are eliminated after treatment with acyclovir. The EBV terminal restriction enzyme fragments were identified in three producer cell lines, each with a characteristic number of TR in the intracellular episomal DNA. Identification of the termini in cell lines established with the three virus strains revealed that the newly transformed cell lines had a greater number of TR than did the template DNA in the producer cell line. The increase in the number of TR in progeny episomes indicates that linear DNA is produced from concatameric replicative intermediates rather than from amplified catenated circular intermediates.
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- H Sato
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7295
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Gilligan K, Rajadurai P, Resnick L, Raab-Traub N. Epstein-Barr virus small nuclear RNAs are not expressed in permissively infected cells in AIDS-associated leukoplakia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:8790-4. [PMID: 2174165 PMCID: PMC55045 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.22.8790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA structure and gene expression were analyzed in tissue specimens from oral hairy leukoplakia (HLP), a mucocutaneous lesion that develops in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The structure of the terminal restriction enzyme fragments of EBV revealed that HLP is a permissive infection without a predominant, detectable population of EBV episomal DNA. In RNA preparations from this uniquely permissive infection, EBV replicative mRNAs could be identified by Northern analysis; however, the virally encoded small nuclear RNAs, the EBERs, were not detected in most HLP RNA preparations. In situ hybridization detected EBER expression in very rare cells. These data indicate that unlike other viral small nuclear RNAs, the EBERs are not expressed during viral replication and must participate in the complex maintenance of latent EBV infection.
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- K Gilligan
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599
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Locker J, Nalesnik M. Molecular genetic analysis of lymphoid tumors arising after organ transplantation. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 1989; 135:977-87. [PMID: 2556930 PMCID: PMC1880507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A variety of gene analyses were performed on lymphoid tumors from transplant patients who received cyclosporine A for immunosuppression. Epstein-Barr virus DNA was detected in the tumors, and the structure of circular episomal virus DNA was used as a measure of cell clonality. This analysis was correlated with clonality determined by study of immunoglobulin gene rearrangement. Some of the tumors had DNA rearrangements near the c-myc gene. Analysis suggested the pathogenesis of the tumors and indicated four categories of lymphoproliferation, three neoplastic and one reactive.
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- J Locker
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Presbyterian-University Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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Kawa-Ha K, Ishihara S, Ninomiya T, Yumura-Yagi K, Hara J, Murayama F, Tawa A, Hirai K. CD3-negative lymphoproliferative disease of granular lymphocytes containing Epstein-Barr viral DNA. J Clin Invest 1989; 84:51-5. [PMID: 2544630 PMCID: PMC303951 DOI: 10.1172/jci114168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Lymphoproliferative disease of granular lymphocytes (LDGL) is a heterogeneous disorder and the pathogenesis is likely to be complex. Some patients with chronic active EBV (CAEBV) infection also have LDGL. To investigate the relationship between EBV infection and the pathogenesis of LDGL, we conducted a survey for EBV DNA sequences by Southern blot analysis of DNA obtained from the peripheral blood of seven patients with LDGL, including one with CAEBV infection. Interestingly, EBV DNA was detected in the sample from the patient with CAEBV infection, and in the samples from four other patients with CD3-LDGL. Moreover, a single band for the joined termini of the EBV genome was demonstrated in two samples, suggesting a clonal disorder of those LDGL. These findings strongly suggest that EBV may play a pathogenic role in some cases of LDGL.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Antigens, Viral/immunology
- Blotting, Southern
- CD3 Complex
- Capsid/immunology
- Child
- Chronic Disease
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Female
- Granulocytes/immunology
- Granulocytes/microbiology
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/genetics
- Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology
- Humans
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders/immunology
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders/microbiology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology
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- K Kawa-Ha
- Department of Pediatrics, Osaka University Hospital, Japan
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