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Akkawi C, Feuillard J, Diaz FL, Belkhir K, Godefroy N, Peloponese JM, Mougel M, Laine S. Murine leukemia virus (MLV) P50 protein induces cell transformation via transcriptional regulatory function. Retrovirology 2023; 20:16. [PMID: 37700325 PMCID: PMC10496198 DOI: 10.1186/s12977-023-00631-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The murine leukemia virus (MLV) has been a powerful model of pathogenesis for the discovery of genes involved in cancer. Its splice donor (SD')-associated retroelement (SDARE) is important for infectivity and tumorigenesis, but the mechanism remains poorly characterized. Here, we show for the first time that P50 protein, which is produced from SDARE, acts as an accessory protein that transregulates transcription and induces cell transformation. RESULTS By infecting cells with MLV particles containing SDARE transcript alone (lacking genomic RNA), we show that SDARE can spread to neighbouring cells as shown by the presence of P50 in infected cells. Furthermore, a role for P50 in cell transformation was demonstrated by CCK8, TUNEL and anchorage-independent growth assays. We identified the integrase domain of P50 as being responsible for transregulation of the MLV promoter using luciferase assay and RTqPCR with P50 deleted mutants. Transcriptomic analysis furthermore revealed that the expression of hundreds of cellular RNAs involved in cancerogenesis were deregulated in the presence of P50, suggesting that P50 induces carcinogenic processes via its transcriptional regulatory function. CONCLUSION We propose a novel SDARE-mediated mode of propagation of the P50 accessory protein in surrounding cells. Moreover, due to its transforming properties, P50 expression could lead to a cellular and tissue microenvironment that is conducive to cancer development.
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- Charbel Akkawi
- Team R2D2: Retroviral RNA Dynamics and Delivery, IRIM, UMR9004, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Team R2D2: Retroviral RNA Dynamics and Delivery, IRIM, UMR9004, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Team R2D2: Retroviral RNA Dynamics and Delivery, IRIM, UMR9004, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, Université Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, CNRS, EPHE, Université Montpellier, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Team R2D2: Retroviral RNA Dynamics and Delivery, IRIM, UMR9004, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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- Team R2D2: Retroviral RNA Dynamics and Delivery, IRIM, UMR9004, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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Kaminski S, Adjali O, Jacquet C, Garaude J, Keriel A, Lassaux A, Hipskind R, Sitbon M, Taylor N, Villalba M. The protooncogene Vav1 regulates murine leukemia virus-induced T-cell leukemogenesis. Oncoimmunology 2021; 1:600-608. [PMID: 22934252 PMCID: PMC3429564 DOI: 10.4161/onci.20225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Vav1 is expressed exclusively in hematopoietic cells and is required for T cell development and activation. Vav1-deficient mice show thymic hypocellularity due to a partial block during thymocyte development at the DN3 stage and between the double positive (DP) and single positive (SP) transition. Vav1 has been shown to play a significant role in several non-hematopoietic tumors but its role in leukemogenesis is unknown. To address this question, we investigated the role of Vav1 in retrovirus-induced T cell leukemogenesis. Infection of Vav1-deficient mice with the Moloney strain of murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV) significantly affected tumor phenotype without modulating tumor incidence or latency. M-MuLV-infected Vav1-deficient mice showed reduced splenomegaly, higher hematocrit levels and hypertrophic thymi. Notably, Vav1-deficient mice with M-MuLV leukemias presented with markedly lower TCRβ/CD3 levels, indicating that transformation occurred at an earlier stage of T cell development than in WT mice. Thus, impaired T cell development modulates the outcome of retrovirus-induced T cell leukemias, demonstrating a link between T cell development and T cell leukemogenesis.
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- Sandra Kaminski
- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier; UMR 5535; CNRS; Montpellier, France
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Murine Leukemia Virus P50 Protein Counteracts APOBEC3 by Blocking Its Packaging. J Virol 2020; 94:JVI.00032-20. [PMID: 32641479 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00032-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Apolipoprotein B editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide 3 (APOBEC3) family members are cytidine deaminases that play important roles in intrinsic responses to retrovirus infection. Complex retroviruses like human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) encode the viral infectivity factor (Vif) protein to counteract APOBEC3 proteins. Vif induces degradation of APOBEC3G and other APOBEC3 proteins and thereby prevents their packaging into virions. It is not known if murine leukemia virus (MLV) encodes a Vif-like protein. Here, we show that the MLV P50 protein, produced from an alternatively spliced gag RNA, interacts with the C terminus of mouse APOBEC3 and prevents its packaging without causing its degradation. By infecting APOBEC3 knockout (KO) and wild-type (WT) mice with Friend or Moloney MLV P50-deficient viruses, we found that APOBEC3 restricts the mutant viruses more than WT viruses in vivo Replication of P50-mutant viruses in an APOBEC3-expressing stable cell line was also much slower than that of WT viruses, and overexpressing P50 in this cell line enhanced mutant virus replication. Thus, MLV encodes a protein, P50, that overcomes APOBEC3 restriction by preventing its packaging into virions.IMPORTANCE MLV has existed in mice for at least a million years, in spite of the existence of host restriction factors that block infection. Although MLV is considered a simple retrovirus compared to lentiviruses, it does encode proteins generated from alternatively spliced RNAs. Here, we show that P50, generated from an alternatively spliced RNA encoded in gag, counteracts APOBEC3 by blocking its packaging. MLV also encodes a protein, glycoGag, that increases capsid stability and limits APOBEC3 access to the reverse transcription complex (RTC). Thus, MLV has evolved multiple means of preventing APOBEC3 from blocking infection, explaining its survival as an infectious pathogen in mice.
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Maurel S, Mougel M. Murine leukemia virus RNA dimerization is coupled to transcription and splicing processes. Retrovirology 2010; 7:64. [PMID: 20687923 PMCID: PMC2925334 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-7-64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2010] [Accepted: 08/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Most of the cell biological aspects of retroviral genome dimerization remain unknown. Murine leukemia virus (MLV) constitutes a useful model to study when and where dimerization occurs within the cell. For instance, MLV produces a subgenomic RNA (called SD') that is co-packaged with the genomic RNA predominantly as FLSD' heterodimers. This SD' RNA is generated by splicing of the genomic RNA and also by direct transcription of a splice-associated retroelement of MLV (SDARE). We took advantage of these two SD' origins to study the effects of transcription and splicing events on RNA dimerization. Using genetic approaches coupled to capture of RNA heterodimer in virions, we determined heterodimerization frequencies in different cellular contexts. Several cell lines were stably established in which SD' RNA was produced by either splicing or transcription from SDARE. Moreover, SDARE was integrated into the host chromosome either concomitantly or sequentially with the genomic provirus. Our results showed that transcribed genomic and SD' RNAs preferentially formed heterodimers when their respective proviruses were integrated together. In contrast, heterodimerization was strongly affected when the two proviruses were integrated independently. Finally, dimerization was enhanced when the transcription sites were expected to be physically close. For the first time, we report that splicing and RNA dimerization appear to be coupled. Indeed, when the RNAs underwent splicing, the FLSD' dimerization reached a frequency similar to co-transcriptional heterodimerization. Altogether, our results indicate that randomness of heterodimerization increases when RNAs are co-expressed during either transcription or splicing. Our results strongly support the notion that dimerization occurs in the nucleus, at or near the transcription and splicing sites, at areas of high viral RNA concentration.
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- Stéphan Maurel
- Université Montpellier 1, Centre d'études d'agents Pathogènes et Biotechnologies pour la Santé (CPBS), CNRS, UMR 5236, 4 Bd Henri IV, 34965 Montpellier, France
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Antisense transcription in gammaretroviruses as a mechanism of insertional activation of host genes. J Virol 2010; 84:3780-8. [PMID: 20130045 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02088-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Transcription of retroviruses is initiated at the U3-R region boundary in the integrated provirus and continues unidirectionally to produce genomic and mRNA products of positive polarity. Several studies have recently demonstrated the existence of naturally occurring protein-encoding transcripts of negative polarity in complex retroviruses. We report here on the identification of transcripts of negative polarity in simple murine leukemia virus (MLV). In T-cell and B-cell lymphomas induced by SL3-3 and Akv MLV, antisense transcripts initiated in the U3 region of the proviral 5' long terminal repeat (LTR) and continued into the cellular proto-oncogenes Jdp2 and Bach2 to create chimeric transcripts consisting of viral and host sequence. The phenomenon was validated in vivo using a knock-in mouse model homozygous for a single LTR at a position known to activate Nras in B-cell lymphomas. A 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) analysis indicated a broad spectrum of initiation sites within the U3 region of the 5' LTR. Our data show for the first time transcriptional activity of negative polarity initiating in the U3 region of simple retroviruses and suggest a novel mechanism of insertional activation of host genes. Elucidation of the nature and potential regulatory role of 5' LTR antisense transcription will be relevant to the design of therapeutic vectors and may contribute to the increasing recognition of pervasive eukaryotic transcription.
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Keriel A, Mahuteau-Betzer F, Jacquet C, Plays M, Grierson D, Sitbon M, Tazi J. Protection against retrovirus pathogenesis by SR protein inhibitors. PLoS One 2009; 4:e4533. [PMID: 19225570 PMCID: PMC2640060 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2008] [Accepted: 12/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Indole derivatives compounds (IDC) are a new class of splicing inhibitors that have a selective action on exonic splicing enhancers (ESE)-dependent activity of individual serine-arginine-rich (SR) proteins. Some of these molecules have been shown to compromise assembly of HIV infectious particles in cell cultures by interfering with the activity of the SR protein SF2/ASF and by subsequently suppressing production of splicing-dependent retroviral accessory proteins. For all replication-competent retroviruses, a limiting requirement for infection and pathogenesis is the expression of the envelope glycoprotein which strictly depends on the host splicing machinery. Here, we have evaluated the efficiency of IDC on an animal model of retroviral pathogenesis using a fully replication-competent retrovirus. In this model, all newborn mice infected with a fully replicative murine leukemia virus (MLV) develop erythroleukemia within 6 to 8 weeks of age. We tested several IDC for their ability to interfere ex vivo with MLV splicing and virus spreading as well as for their protective effect in vivo. We show here that two of these IDC, IDC13 and IDC78, selectively altered splicing-dependent production of the retroviral envelope gene, thus inhibiting early viral replication in vivo, sufficiently to protect mice from MLV-induced pathogenesis. The apparent specificity and clinical safety observed here for both IDC13 and IDC78 strongly support further assessment of inhibitors of SR protein splicing factors as a new class of antiretroviral therapeutic agents.
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- Anne Keriel
- Université Montpellier 2 Université Montpellier 1 CNRS, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), UMR5535, IFR122, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire de Pharmaco-chimie, CNRS-Institut Curie, UMR 176 Bat 110 Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France
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- Université Montpellier 2 Université Montpellier 1 CNRS, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), UMR5535, IFR122, Montpellier, France
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- Université Montpellier 2 Université Montpellier 1 CNRS, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), UMR5535, IFR122, Montpellier, France
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Université Montpellier 2 Université Montpellier 1 CNRS, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), UMR5535, IFR122, Montpellier, France
- * E-mail: (MS); (JT)
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- Université Montpellier 2 Université Montpellier 1 CNRS, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), UMR5535, IFR122, Montpellier, France
- * E-mail: (MS); (JT)
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Impaired anti-leukemic immune response in PKCθ-deficient mice. Mol Immunol 2008; 45:3463-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2008] [Accepted: 03/26/2008] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Hardenberg G, Fernandez L, Hendriks J, Chebli K, Jacquet C, Sitbon M, Hahne M, Medema JP. APRIL facilitates viral-induced erythroleukemia but is dispensable for T cell immunity and lymphomagenesis. J Leukoc Biol 2008; 84:380-8. [PMID: 18483203 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.1207853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The TNF family member, a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL), has been suggested to act as a costimulatory molecule in T cell responses. However, studies addressing this role in vivo are largely lacking. Here, we evaluated the effects of APRIL on physiological T cell responses in vivo. Although receptors for APRIL are expressed on a subset of T cells, neither TCR transgenic (Tg) T cell responses nor endogenous TCR responses were affected by Tg APRIL expression in vivo. Moreover, APRIL did not significantly enhance the induction of T cell lymphomas upon Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) infection. This clearly contrasts current belief and indicates that APRIL does not serve a major role in T cell immunity or lymphomagenesis. However, we did observe a strong increase in erythroleukemia formation after MLV inoculation of APRIL Tg mice. Strikingly, this erythroleukemia-facilitating property of APRIL was confirmed using the erythroleukemogenic Friend-MLV. Erythroleukemia in APRIL Tg mice was characterized by low hematocrits and grossly enlarged spleens with an increased percentage of erythroid precursors. Altogether, these results unveil new proerythroleukemogenic properties of APRIL.
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- Gijs Hardenberg
- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology, Center for Experimental Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Maurel S, Houzet L, Garcia EL, Telesnitsky A, Mougel M. Characterization of a natural heterodimer between MLV genomic RNA and the SD' retroelement generated by alternative splicing. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2007; 13:2266-2276. [PMID: 17928575 PMCID: PMC2080594 DOI: 10.1261/rna.713807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2007] [Accepted: 08/28/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Murine leukemia virus (MLV) specifically packages both genomic RNA (FL RNA) and a subgenomic RNA, which we call SD'. SD' RNA results from alternative splicing of FL RNA. It is reverse-transcribed, and its DNA copy, integrated into the host genome, constitutes a splice donor-associated retroelement. FL and SD' RNAs share a common 5'-UTR that includes the packaging/dimerization signal (Psi). To investigate whether the mechanism of copackaging of these two RNAs involves RNA heterodimerization, we examined the spontaneous dimerization capacity of the two RNAs as large synthetic RNAs transcribed in vitro. We showed that SD' RNA not only formed homodimers with similar efficiency as the FL RNA, but that FL and SD' RNAs also formed FL/SD' heterodimers via Psi sequences. Comparison of the thermostabilities determined for these different dimeric species and competition experiments with Psi RNA fragments indicate the recruitment of similar dimer-linkage interactions within the Psi region. To validate these results, the dimeric state of the SD' RNA was analyzed in MLV particles. RNA capture assays performed with the FL RNA as bait revealed that SD', and not the host packageable U6 or 7SL RNAs, was associated with the FL RNA in virions. Heterodimerization of SD' RNA with FL RNA may argue for the recent concept of a nuclear dimerization at or near the site of transcription and raises the new hypothesis of RNA dimerization during splicing. Furthermore, FL/SD' heterodimerization may have leukemogenic consequences by influencing the pool of genomic dimers that will undergo recombinogenic template switching by reverse transcriptase.
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- Stéphan Maurel
- Centre d'Etudes d'Agents Pathogènes et Biotechnologies pour la Santé (CPBS), CNRS UMR5236, UMI, UMII, IFR122, CS 69033, 34965 Montpellier, France
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Sørensen AB, Lund AH, Kunder S, Quintanilla-Martinez L, Schmidt J, Wang B, Wabl M, Pedersen FS. Impairment of alternative splice sites defining a novel gammaretroviral exon within gag modifies the oncogenic properties of Akv murine leukemia virus. Retrovirology 2007; 4:46. [PMID: 17617899 PMCID: PMC1936429 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-4-46] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2007] [Accepted: 07/06/2007] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Background Mutations of an alternative splice donor site located within the gag region has previously been shown to broaden the pathogenic potential of the T-lymphomagenic gammaretrovirus Moloney murine leukemia virus, while the equivalent mutations in the erythroleukemia inducing Friend murine leukemia virus seem to have no influence on the disease-inducing potential of this virus. In the present study we investigate the splice pattern as well as the possible effects of mutating the alternative splice sites on the oncogenic properties of the B-lymphomagenic Akv murine leukemia virus. Results By exon-trapping procedures we have identified a novel gammaretroviral exon, resulting from usage of alternative splice acceptor (SA') and splice donor (SD') sites located in the capsid region of gag of the B-cell lymphomagenic Akv murine leukemia virus. To analyze possible effects in vivo of this novel exon, three different alternative splice site mutant viruses, mutated in either the SA', in the SD', or in both sites, respectively, were constructed and injected into newborn inbred NMRI mice. Most of the infected mice (about 90%) developed hematopoietic neoplasms within 250 days, and histological examination of the tumors showed that the introduced synonymous gag mutations have a significant influence on the phenotype of the induced tumors, changing the distribution of the different types as well as generating tumors of additional specificities such as de novo diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and histiocytic sarcoma. Interestingly, a broader spectrum of diagnoses was made from the two single splice-site mutants than from as well the wild-type as the double splice-site mutant. Both single- and double-spliced transcripts are produced in vivo using the SA' and/or the SD' sites, but the mechanisms underlying the observed effects on oncogenesis remain to be clarified. Likewise, analyses of provirus integration sites in tumor tissues, which identified 111 novel RISs (retroviral integration sites) and 35 novel CISs (common integration sites), did not clearly point to specific target genes or pathways to be associated with specific tumor diagnoses or individual viral mutants. Conclusion We present here the first example of a doubly spliced transcript within the group of gammaretroviruses, and we show that mutation of the alternative splice sites that define this novel RNA product change the oncogenic potential of Akv murine leukemia virus.
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- Annette Balle Sørensen
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- The State and University Library, Universitetsparken, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Institute of Pathology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Comparative Medicine GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Rodenburg M, Fischer M, Engelmann A, Harbers SO, Ziegler M, Löhler J, Stocking C. Importance of receptor usage, Fli1 activation, and mouse strain for the stem cell specificity of 10A1 murine leukemia virus leukemogenicity. J Virol 2006; 81:732-42. [PMID: 17079317 PMCID: PMC1797452 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01430-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Murine leukemia viruses (MuLV) induce leukemia through a multistage process, a critical step being the activation of oncogenes through provirus integration. Transcription elements within the long terminal repeats (LTR) are prime determinants of cell lineage specificity; however, the influence of other factors, including the Env protein that modulates cell tropism through receptor recognition, has not been rigorously addressed. The ability of 10A1-MuLV to use both PiT1 and PiT2 receptors has been implicated in its induction of blast cell leukemia. Here we show that restricting receptor usage of 10A1-MuLV to PiT2 results in loss of blast cell transformation capacity. However, the pathogenicity was unaltered when the env gene is exchanged with Moloney MuLV, which uses the Cat1 receptor. Significantly, the leukemic blasts express erythroid markers and consistently contain proviral integrations in the Fli1 locus, a target of Friend MuLV (F-MuLV) during erythroleukemia induction. Furthermore, an NB-tropic variant of 10A1 was unable to induce blast cell leukemia in C57BL/6 mice, which are also resistant to F-MuLV transformation. We propose that 10A1- and F-MuLV actually induce identical (erythro)blastic leukemia by a mechanism involving Fli1 activation and cooperation with inherent genetic mutations in susceptible mouse strains. Furthermore, we demonstrate that deletion of the Icsbp tumor suppressor gene in C57BL/6 mice is sufficient to confer susceptibility to 10A1-MuLV leukemia induction but with altered specificity. In summary, we validate the significance of the env gene in leukemia specificity and underline the importance of a complex interplay of cooperating oncogenes and/or tumor suppressors in determining the pathogenicity of MuLV variants.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Fibroblasts
- Gene Products, env/genetics
- Gene Products, env/metabolism
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/pathology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/virology
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/metabolism
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/pathogenicity
- Leukemia, Experimental/pathology
- Leukemia, Experimental/virology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Proto-Oncogene Protein c-fli-1/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Protein c-fli-1/metabolism
- Receptors, Virus/metabolism
- Retroviridae Infections/pathology
- Retroviridae Infections/virology
- Species Specificity
- Tumor Virus Infections/pathology
- Tumor Virus Infections/virology
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Jahid S, Bundy LM, Granger SW, Fan H. Chimeras between SRS and Moloney murine leukemia viruses reveal novel determinants in disease specificity and MCF recombinant formation. Virology 2006; 351:7-17. [PMID: 16616947 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2005] [Revised: 01/19/2006] [Accepted: 03/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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SRS 19-6 MuLV is a murine retrovirus originally isolated in mainland China. A noteworthy feature of this virus (referred to as SRS MuLV here) induces tumors of multiple hematopoietic lineages, including myeloid, erythroid, T-lymphoid and B-lymphoid. To identify the determinants of disease specificity, chimeras between SRS and Moloney MuLV (M-MuLV) were generated by molecular cloning, and the pathogenic properties of the chimeras were investigated. The results indicated that, while the M-MuLV LTR can confer lymphoid specificity to SRS MuLV, the SRS LTR by itself was not sufficient to confer multiple lineage tumorigenesis to M-MuLV; additional sequences in gag or pol were also required. Thus, a secondary determinant for myeloid/erythroid leukemia in SRS MuLV is located in gag-pol. In these chimeras, an independent determinant for T-lymphoma was found in M-MuLV gag-pol. It was also interesting that insertion of M-MuLV env into SRS MuLV decreased the rate of leukemogenicity, while insertion of SRS env into M-MuLV (SEM) accelerated leukemogenesis. The enhanced pathogenicity of SEM was found to correlate with earlier formation of MCF recombinants. The basis for the accelerated MCF recombinant formation was investigated. The endogenous polytropic MuLV env sequences contributing to several SEM MCF recombinants were identified, and the cross-over points were identified. While no obvious differences in the relative homologies between SRS MuLV env and polytropic env vs. M-MuLV and polytropic envs suggested a reason for the more rapid MCF recombinant formation, an overlapping but different set of polytropic env proviruses were found to participate in MCF formation for M-MuLV vs. SEM. Thus, the mechanisms for MCF formation appear to differ for M-MuLV and SEM.
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- Sohail Jahid
- Cancer Research Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Ramirez JM, Houzet L, Koller R, Bies J, Wolff L, Mougel M. Activation of c-myb by 5' retrovirus promoter insertion in myeloid neoplasms is dependent upon an intact alternative splice donor site (SD') in gag. Virology 2005; 330:398-407. [PMID: 15567434 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2004.09.038] [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] [Received: 07/01/2004] [Revised: 08/16/2004] [Accepted: 09/28/2004] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Alternative splicing in Mo-MuLV recruits a splice donor site, SD', within the gag that is required for optimal replication in vitro. Remarkably, this SD' site was also found to be utilized for production of oncogenic gag-myb fusion RNA in 100% of murine-induced myeloid leukemia (MML) in pristane-treated BALB/c mice. Therefore, we investigated the influence of silent mutations of SD' in this model. Although there was no decrease in the overall incidence of disease, there was a decrease in the incidence of myeloid leukemia with a concomitant increase in lymphoid leukemia. Importantly, there was a complete lack of myeloid tumors associated with 5' insertional mutagenic activation of c-myb, suggesting the specific requirement of the SD' site in this mechanism.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Disease Models, Animal
- Gene Expression
- Genes, myb
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/pathology
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/virology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/virology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Moloney murine leukemia virus/genetics
- Moloney murine leukemia virus/pathogenicity
- Moloney murine leukemia virus/physiology
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA Splicing
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Viral/analysis
- RNA, Viral/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Spleen/pathology
- Virus Integration
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Affiliation(s)
- Jean Marie Ramirez
- Laboratoire Infections Rétrovirales et Signalisation Cellulaire, CNRS UMR5121, UMI, IFR122, Montpellier, France
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Houzet L, Battini JL, Bernard E, Thibert V, Mougel M. A new retroelement constituted by a natural alternatively spliced RNA of murine replication-competent retroviruses. EMBO J 2003; 22:4866-75. [PMID: 12970198 PMCID: PMC212718 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Replication of simple retroviruses depends on the recruitment of a single large primary transcript toward splicing, transport/packaging and translation regulations. In this respect, we studied the novel SD' 4.4 kb RNA of murine leukemia retroviruses (MLV) which results from alternative splicing of the primary transcript. We showed that SD' RNA was required for optimal replication since expression of a pre-spliced SD' RNA trans-complemented the impaired infectivity of a SD'-defective mutant. We monitored the fate of this novel transcript throughout early and late events of the viral life cycle. SD' RNA was specifically incorporated into virions demonstrating that the unspliced RNA was not the unique viral RNA present in virions. Furthermore, SD' RNA was reverse transcribed and its DNA copy integrated into the host genome, thus constituting a new splice donor-associated retroelement (SDARE) in infected cells. Finally, we showed that SD' mRNA encoded a 50 kDa polyprotein, and to a lower extent an additional 60 kDa polyprotein, which harbored Gag and integrase domains.
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- Laurent Houzet
- Institut de Genetique Moleculaire, UMR5555 CNRS, Montpellier, 4 Boulevard Henri IV, CS89508, 34960 Montpellier, France
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Kim FJ, Manel N, Boublik Y, Battini JL, Sitbon M. Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 envelope-mediated syncytium formation can be activated in resistant Mammalian cell lines by a carboxy-terminal truncation of the envelope cytoplasmic domain. J Virol 2003; 77:963-9. [PMID: 12502812 PMCID: PMC140806 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.2.963-969.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV) envelope (Env) glycoproteins induce fusion, leading to rampant syncytium formation in a broad range of cell lines. Here, we identified murine, hamster, canine, and porcine cell lines that are resistant to HTLV-1 Env-induced syncytium formation. This resistance was not due to the absence of functional receptors for HTLV Env, as these cells were susceptible to infection with HTLV Env-pseudotyped virions. As murine leukemia virus (MLV) Env and HTLV Env present close structural homologies (F. J. Kim, I. Seiliez, C. Denesvre, D. Lavillette, F. L. Cosset, and M. Sitbon, J. Biol. Chem. 275:23417-23420, 2000), and because activation of syncytium formation by MLV Env generally requires cleavage of the R peptide in the cytoplasmic domain of the Env transmembrane (TM) component, we assessed whether truncation of the cytoplasmic domain of HTLV Env would alleviate this resistance. Indeed, in all resistant cell lines, truncation of the last 8 amino acids of the HTLV Env cytoplasmic domain (HdC8) was sufficient to overcome resistance to HTLV Env-induced syncytium formation. Furthermore, HdC8-mediated cell-to-cell infection titers varied according to the target cell lines and could be significantly higher than that observed with HTLV Env on HeLa cells. These data indicate that a determinant located within the 8 carboxy-terminal cytoplasmic amino acids of TM plays a distinct role in HTLV Env-mediated cell-to-cell infection and syncytium formation.
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- Felix J Kim
- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, CNRS-UMR 5535, IFR24, France
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Déjardin J, Bompard-Maréchal G, Audit M, Hope TJ, Sitbon M, Mougel M. A novel subgenomic murine leukemia virus RNA transcript results from alternative splicing. J Virol 2000; 74:3709-14. [PMID: 10729146 PMCID: PMC111880 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.8.3709-3714.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Here we show the existence of a novel subgenomic 4.4-kb RNA in cells infected with the prototypic replication-competent Friend or Moloney murine leukemia viruses (MuLV). This RNA derives by splicing from an alternative donor site (SD') within the capsid-coding region to the canonical envelope splice acceptor site. The position and the sequence of SD' was highly conserved among mammalian type C and D oncoviruses. Point mutations used to inactivate SD' without changing the capsid-coding ability affected viral RNA splicing and reduced viral replication in infected cells.
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- J Déjardin
- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, IFR 24, CNRS-UMR5535, and Université Montpellier II, F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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