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Garrido F, Cabrera T, Aptsiauri N. "Hard" and "soft" lesions underlying the HLA class I alterations in cancer cells: implications for immunotherapy. Int J Cancer 2010; 127:249-56. [PMID: 20178101 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The ability of cancer cells to escape from the natural or immunotherapy-induced antitumor immune response is often associated with alterations in the tumor cell surface expression of Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class I antigens. Considerable knowledge has been gained on the prevalence of various patterns of MHC Class I defects and the underlying molecular mechanisms in different types of cancer. In contrast, few data are available on the changes in MHC Class I expression happening during the course of cancer immunotherapy. We have recently proposed that the progression or regression of a tumor lesion in cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy could be predetermined by the molecular mechanism responsible for the MHC Class I alteration and not by the type of immunotherapy used, i.e., interleukin-2 (IL-2), Bacillus Calmette-Guèrin (BCG), interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha), peptides alone, dendritic cells loaded with peptides, protein-bound polysaccharide etc. If the molecular alteration responsible for the changes in MHC Class I expression is reversible by cytokines ("soft" lesion), the MHC Class I expression will be upregulated, the specific T cell-mediated response will increase and the lesion will regress. However, if the molecular defect is structural ("hard" lesion), the MHC Class I expression will remain low, the escape mechanism will prevail and the primary tumor or the metastatic lesion will progress. According to this idea, the nature of the preexisting MHC Class I lesion in the cancer cell has a crucial impact determining the final outcome of cancer immunotherapy. In this article, we discuss the importance of these two types of molecular mechanisms of MHC Class I-altered expression.
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- Federico Garrido
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
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Mycobacteria exploit p38 signaling to affect CD1 expression and lipid antigen presentation by human dendritic cells. Infect Immun 2009; 77:4947-52. [PMID: 19720761 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00607-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Group I CD1 proteins are specialized antigen-presenting molecules that present both microbial and self lipid antigens to CD1-restricted alpha/beta T lymphocytes. The production of high levels of gamma interferon and lysis of infected macrophages by lipid-specific T lymphocytes are believed to play pivotal roles mainly in the defense against mycobacterial infections. We previously demonstrated that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and bacillus Calmette-Guérin (Mycobacterium bovis BCG) induce human monocytes to differentiate into CD1- dendritic cells (DC), which cannot present lipid antigens to specific T cells. Here, we show that in human monocytes mycobacteria trigger phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase to inhibit CD1 expression in DC derived from infected monocytes. Pretreatment with a specific p38 inhibitor renders monocytes insensitive to mycobacterial subversion and allows them to differentiate into CD1+ DC, which are fully capable of presenting lipid antigens to specific T cells. We also report that one of the pathogen recognition receptors triggered by BCG to activate p38 is complement receptor 3 (CR3), as shown by reduced p38 phosphorylation and partial reestablishment of CD1 membrane expression obtained by CR3 blockade before infection. In conclusion, we propose that p38 signaling is a novel pathway exploited by mycobacteria to affect the expression of CD1 antigen-presenting cells and avoid immune recognition.
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Mori S, Ozaki S, Yasugi T, Yoshikawa H, Taketani Y, Kanda T. Inhibitory cis-element-mediated decay of human papillomavirus type 16 L1-transcript in undifferentiated cells. Mol Cell Biochem 2006; 288:47-57. [PMID: 16583140 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-006-9117-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2005] [Accepted: 01/05/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Production of human papillomavirus type 16 major capsid protein L1 in undifferentiated cells is negatively regulated by several yet unidentified cis-acting inhibitory RNA elements, among which a major element is located within the first 514 nucleotides of the L1-mRNA. By Northern blotting we examined effect of the major element on the steady-state level of mRNA transiently transcribed in 293T cells from the firefly luciferase (Fluc) gene combined with the L1 DNA fragment encoding the major element. As reported previously, the element down-regulated steady-state level of the mRNA. The most efficient down-regulation was achieved by insertion of the element near the 5' end of mRNA, resulting in an undetectable level of the mRNA. The longer the distance from the 5' end of the mRNA to the element, the weaker the down-regulation. The half-life of the mRNA having the element was similar to that of normal Fluc-mRNA. When the element near the 5' end was removed by splicing, the steady-state level of the resultant mRNA was raised to a readily detectable level. The steady-state level of RNA synthesized by RNA polymerase-I was not influenced by the presence of the element. Taken together, it is suggested that DNA region encoding the major inhibitory element does not disturb transcription and that the pre-mRNA is degraded by an RNA element-mediated mechanism after the splicing step in the course of mRNA maturation.
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- Seiichiro Mori
- Division of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8640, Japan
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Zheng X, Kelley K, Elnakat H, Yan W, Dorn T, Ratnam M. mRNA instability in the nucleus due to a novel open reading frame element is a major determinant of the narrow tissue specificity of folate receptor alpha. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:2202-12. [PMID: 12612090 PMCID: PMC149483 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.6.2202-2212.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The folate receptor type alpha (FR-alpha) is a promising tumor marker and target. Here, we investigate the mechanistic basis for the tumor specificity and vast overexpression of FR-alpha. Among representative FR-alpha-positive (HeLa and JAR) and FR-alpha-negative (MG63, Caki1, and HT3) cell lines, the transcription rates of the endogenous FR-alpha gene, as well as the FR-alpha promoter activity, were relatively weak and comparable, but the FR-alpha transcript was abundant only in total RNA and nuclear RNA from the FR-alpha-positive cells. Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) promoter-driven expression of the FR-alpha gene was 7 to 30 times greater in the FR-alpha-positive than in FR-alpha-negative cells, both at the protein and mRNA levels, independently of intron sequences. Through the use of chimeric FR-alpha/FR-beta cDNAs, the above pattern of FR-alpha expression was attributed to a 60-bp sequence in the FR-alpha open reading frame. This sequence element, when placed in the 5' untranslated region of RSV promoter-luciferase, decreased the reporter expression approximately 7- to 20-fold in FR-alpha-negative cells (MG63, Caki1, HT3, BG1, and MCF7) relative to FR-alpha-positive cells (HeLa, JAR, and JEG3). Substitution of this FR-alpha element in FR-beta increased the in vivo degradation rate of the transcript in the nuclei of MG63 cells but not in the nuclei of HeLa cells or in the cytosol of MG63 or HeLa cells. The results reveal an efficient mechanism by which a novel sequence element causes differential transcript degradation in the nucleus to ensure narrow tissue specificity for a gene (e.g., that for FR-alpha) whose transcription is weak and relatively nonselective. FR-alpha exhibited constitutive mRNA and protein synthesis during the cell cycle and a slow protein turnover, presumably ensuring a high steady-state level of the receptor in cells that could override the nuclear mRNA instability determinant.
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MESH Headings
- 5' Untranslated Regions
- Avian Sarcoma Viruses/genetics
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Nucleus/metabolism
- Choriocarcinoma/pathology
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Female
- Folate Receptors, GPI-Anchored
- Folic Acid/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Genes, Reporter
- Genes, Synthetic
- HeLa Cells/metabolism
- Humans
- Luciferases/biosynthesis
- Luciferases/genetics
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Neoplasm Proteins/metabolism
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Open Reading Frames/genetics
- Organ Specificity
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Messenger/chemistry
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Neoplasm/chemistry
- RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- RNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/metabolism
- Uterine Neoplasms/pathology
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Affiliation(s)
- Xuan Zheng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Ohio, 3035 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, OH 43614-5804, USA
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Ueno NT, Yu D, Hung MC. E1A: tumor suppressor or oncogene? Preclinical and clinical investigations of E1A gene therapy. Breast Cancer 2002; 8:285-93. [PMID: 11791119 DOI: 10.1007/bf02967526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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In the late 1980s, we have shown that the E1A gene can downregulate HER-2/neu overexpression, thus reversing the tumorigenic and metastatic phenotype. Further, E1A can function as a tumor suppressor gene by inducing apoptosis and inhibiting metastasis. At The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, we have been investigating the adenovirus type 5 E1A gene as a potential therapeutic gene in breast and ovarian cancer since 1995 by using cationic liposome as gene delivery system. In this chapter, we recount our development of E1A as a therapeutic gene.
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- N T Ueno
- Department of Molecualr and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Box 448, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Park JH, Chang SH, Kim MC, Shin SH, Youn HJ, Kim JK, Jang YS, Kim CW. Up-regulation of the expression of major histocompatibility complex class I antigens by plasmid DNA transfection in non-hematopoietic cells. FEBS Lett 1998; 436:55-60. [PMID: 9771893 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01097-7] [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: 11/18/2022]
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The effect of DNA on the surface expression of major histocompatibility (MHC) class I antigens was examined in non-hematopoietic tumor cell lines. Transfection with plasmid DNA via liposome or electroporation significantly increased the surface expression of MHC class I molecules in a transient manner. Northern blot analysis showed that levels of MHC class I mRNA were increased by DNA transfection, probably via transcriptional activation. In contrast, the expression of the MHC class II and beta-actin genes was not affected, suggesting that the up-regulation of MHC class I expression by plasmid DNA works in a gene-specific manner.
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- J H Park
- Department of Biology, Changwon National University, Kyungnam, South Korea.
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Seliger B, Harders C, Lohmann S, Momburg F, Urlinger S, Tampé R, Huber C. Down-regulation of the MHC class I antigen-processing machinery after oncogenic transformation of murine fibroblasts. Eur J Immunol 1998; 28:122-33. [PMID: 9485192 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199801)28:01<122::aid-immu122>3.0.co;2-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Malignant transformation is often associated with genetic alterations providing tumor cells with mechanisms for escape from immune surveillance. Human and murine tumors of various origin as well as in vitro models of viral and oncogenic transformation express reduced levels of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigens resulting in decreased sensitivity to MHC class I-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated lysis. We here investigate whether the suppressed MHC class I surface expression of ras-transformed fibroblasts is due to dysregulation of the genes of the antigen-processing machinery, the peptide transporters TAP-1 and TAP-2 and the proteasome subunits LMP-2 and LMP-7, and whether it can be restored by gene transfer. In comparison to parental NIH3T3 cells, the ras oncogenic transformants revealed reduced TAP and LMP mRNA expression and impaired function of these genes, leading to deficient peptide transport and peptide loading of MHC class I molecules resulting in instable expression of the MHC class I complex on the cell surface. Enhanced H-2 surface expression due to stabilization of the MHC class I complex could be achieved by culturing ras transformants at low, unphysiological temperature (26 degrees C) or by loading these cells with either exogenous human beta2-microglobulin or MHC class I-binding peptide alone or in combination. Furthermore, interferon-gamma treatment was capable to enhance the expression of TAP, LMP and MHC class I molecules in both parental as well as ras-transformed fibroblasts. Stable transfection of the human TAP-1 cDNA into ras transformants caused a partial reconstitution of the peptide transport and an enhancement of the MHC class I surface expression, whereas the level of MHC class I biosynthesis was not affected by TAP-1 overexpression in parental cells. Together these results point to the existence of an association between oncogenic transformation and deficiencies in the MHC class I antigen-restricted immunosurveillance, suggesting intervention strategies involving specific MHC class I-binding peptides or transfection of the LMP and/or TAP genes to overcome the expression of the immune escape phenotype.
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MESH Headings
- 3T3 Cells/metabolism
- 3T3 Cells/pathology
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 3
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/biosynthesis
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/genetics
- Animals
- Antigen Presentation
- Antigens, Neoplasm/biosynthesis
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/immunology
- Cold Temperature
- Cysteine Endopeptidases/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, MHC Class I
- Genes, ras
- Genetic Complementation Test
- H-2 Antigens/immunology
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/biosynthesis
- Interferon-gamma/pharmacology
- Mice
- Multienzyme Complexes/metabolism
- Neoplasm Proteins/biosynthesis
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Proteins/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Neoplasm/biosynthesis
- RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- Rats
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Proteins
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic
- Transfection
- beta 2-Microglobulin/pharmacology
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- B Seliger
- Johannes Gutenberg University, III. Medical Clinic, Mainz, Germany
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El Meskini R, Boudouresque F, Ouafik L. Estrogen regulation of peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase messenger ribonucleic acid levels by a nuclear posttranscriptional event. Endocrinology 1997; 138:5256-65. [PMID: 9389509 DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.12.5557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM; EC 1.14.17.3) is a bifunctional protein containing two enzymes that act sequentially to catalyze the conversion of glycine-extended peptides into COOH-terminal amidated peptides. We have previously shown that PAM messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in the anterior pituitary of intact cycling adult female rats showed changes inversely related to the physiological variations of plasma estrogen levels during the estrous cycle. Chronic treatment of ovariectomized (OVX) rats with 17beta-estradiol was accompanied by a 4.5 +/- 0.5-fold decrease in total PAM mRNA and a 2-fold decrease in PAM activity in the anterior pituitary gland. To investigate the cellular site at which 17beta-estradiol acts to affect the PAM mRNA, we made parallel measurements of the relative levels of PAM mRNA and nuclear precursor RNA and the relative rate of gene transcription after treatments designed to alter the estrogen status. The transcription rate experiments indicated that these 17beta-estradiol effects were not due to reduced PAM gene activity, suggesting that a posttranscriptional mechanism was involved. The most common mechanism of posttranscriptional regulation affects cytoplasmic mRNA stability. Primary rat pituitary cell cultures from OVX and OVX-17beta-estradiol-treated rats in the presence of actinomycin D showed that 17beta-estradiol treatment decreased the half-life of PAM mRNA from 15-16 h to 8-9 h. There was no effect of 17beta-estradiol on PAM mRNA poly(A) tail length or site of polyadenylation. However, in this study the down-regulation of PAM was identified as a nuclear event. Analysis of nuclear RNA with probes specific for PAM intron sequences shows that decreased PAM expression after 17beta-estradiol treatment was largely due to intranuclear destabilization of the primary transcript. The levels of nuclear precursor RNA were decreased roughly 5- to 6-fold in OVX + 17beta-estradiol compared with OVX rats. The decrease in PAM mRNA is blocked by cycloheximide, indicating that its requires new protein synthesis. Mechanisms that would generate such an effect include altered stability of unprocessed message in the nucleus. The proportional changes observed in the nuclear precursor and mRNA levels suggest that the site of control is at the level of stability of the nuclear precursor RNA for PAM mRNA.
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- R El Meskini
- INSERM U297, Institut Federatif de Recherche Jean Roche, Faculté de Médecine Nord, Marseille, France
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Gerez L, Arad G, Efrat S, Ketzinel M, Kaempfer R. Post-transcriptional regulation of human interleukin-2 gene expression at processing of precursor transcripts. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:19569-75. [PMID: 7642643 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.33.19569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Interleukin-2 (IL-2) regulates the clonal expansion of activated T cells and is produced in limited amounts during an immune response. Mitogenic induction of human IL-2 gene expression elicits a transient wave of unstable mRNA. We show here that transcription continues unabated during and well beyond the time when the wave is subsiding, yet few, if any, new mRNA molecules are generated once the wave has reached its maximum. Instead, IL-2 precursor transcripts accumulate, becoming the majority of expressed IL-2 RNA molecules. The flow of precursor transcripts into mature mRNA becomes inhibited in the course of induction. When translation is blocked (e.g. by cycloheximide), expression of IL-2 mRNA can be superinduced by 2 orders of magnitude. This superinduction is completely dependent upon transcription, yet is not accompanied by any significant increase in the rate of primary transcription or in mRNA stability. Instead, the processing of nuclear IL-2 precursor transcripts is greatly facilitated, resulting in pronounced superinduction of cytoplasmic mRNA. Once its transcription has been induced, therefore, expression of the IL-2 gene is down-regulated extensively at the level of precursor RNA processing.
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- L Gerez
- Department of Molecular Virology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Bour S, Geleziunas R, Wainberg MA. The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) CD4 receptor and its central role in promotion of HIV-1 infection. Microbiol Rev 1995; 59:63-93. [PMID: 7708013 PMCID: PMC239355 DOI: 10.1128/mr.59.1.63-93.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Interactions between the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120 and the cell surface receptor CD4 are responsible for the entry of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) into host cells in the vast majority of cases. HIV-1 replication is commonly followed by the disappearance or receptor downmodulation of cell surface CD4. This potentially renders cells nonsusceptible to subsequent infection by HIV-1, as well as by other viruses that use CD4 as a portal of entry. Disappearance of CD4 from the cell surface is mediated by several different viral proteins that act at various stages through the course of the viral life cycle, and it occurs in T-cell lines, peripheral blood CD4+ lymphocytes, and monocytes of both primary and cell line origin. At the cell surface, gp120 itself and in the form of antigen-antibody complexes can trigger cellular pathways leading to CD4 internalization. Intracellularly, the mechanisms leading to CD4 downmodulation by HIV-1 are multiple and complex; these include degradation of CD4 by Vpu, formation of intracellular complexes between CD4 and the envelope precursor gp160, and internalization by the Nef protein. Each of the above doubtless contributes to the ultimate depletion of cell surface CD4, although the relative contribution of each mechanism and the manner in which they interact remain to be definitively established.
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- S Bour
- McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Salvucci LA, Bonneau RH, Tevethia SS. Polymorphism within the herpes simplex virus (HSV) ribonucleotide reductase large subunit (ICP6) confers type specificity for recognition by HSV type 1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. J Virol 1995; 69:1122-31. [PMID: 7529328 PMCID: PMC188685 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.2.1122-1131.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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A panel of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)-specific, CD8+, major histocompatibility complex class I (H-2Kb)-restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) clones was derived from HSV-1-immunized C57BL/6 (H-2b) mice in order to identify the HSV-1 CTL recognition epitope(s) which confers type specificity. HSV-1 x HSV-2 intertypic recombinants were used to narrow the region encoding potential CTL recognition epitopes to within 0.51 to 0.58 map units of the HSV-1 genome. Using an inhibitor of viral DNA synthesis and an ICP6 deletion mutant, the large subunit of ribonucleotide reductase (ICP6, RR1) was identified as a target protein for these type-specific CTL. Potential CTL recognition epitopes within RR1 were located on the basis of the peptide motif predicted to bind to the MHC class I H-2Kb molecule. A peptide corresponding to residues 822 to 829 of RR1 was shown to confer susceptibility on H-2Kb-expressing target cells to lysis by the type 1-specific CTL. On the basis of a comparison of the HSV-1 RR1 epitope (residues 822 to 829) with the homologous sequence of HSV-2 RR1 (residues 828 to 836) and by the use of amino acid substitutions within synthetic peptides, we identified HSV-1 residue 828 as being largely responsible for the type specificity exhibited by HSV-1-specific CTL. This HSV-1 RR1 epitope, when expressed in recombinant simian virus 40 large T antigen in primary C57BL/6 cells, was recognized by the HSV-1 RR1-specific CTL clones. These results indicate that an early HSV protein with enzymatic activity provides a target for HSV-specific CTL and that type specificity is dictated largely by a single amino acid.
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- L A Salvucci
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033
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Yoshida K, Higashino F, Fujinaga K. Transcriptional regulation of the adenovirus E1A gene. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1995; 199 ( Pt 3):113-30. [PMID: 7555073 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-79586-2_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- K Yoshida
- Department of Molecular Biology, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan
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Ozawa K, Hagiwara H, Tang X, Saka F, Kitabayashi I, Shiroki K, Fujinaga K, Israël A, Gachelin G, Yokoyama K. Negative regulation of the gene for H-2Kb class I antigen by adenovirus 12-E1A is mediated by a CAA repeated element. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)74244-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Hermiston TW, Tripp RA, Sparer T, Gooding LR, Wold WS. Deletion mutation analysis of the adenovirus type 2 E3-gp19K protein: identification of sequences within the endoplasmic reticulum lumenal domain that are required for class I antigen binding and protection from adenovirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. J Virol 1993; 67:5289-98. [PMID: 8350398 PMCID: PMC237927 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.9.5289-5298.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Adenovirus E3-gp19K is a transmembrane glycoprotein, localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which forms a complex with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigens and retains them in the ER, thereby preventing cytolysis by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). The ER lumenal domain of gp19K, residues 1 to 107, is known to be sufficient for binding to class I antigens; the transmembrane and cytoplasmic ER retention domains are located at residues ca. 108 to 127 and 128 to 142, respectively. To identify more precisely which gp19K regions are involved in binding to class I antigens, we constructed 13 in-frame virus deletion mutants (4 to 12 amino acids deleted) in the ER lumenal domain of gp19K, and we analyzed the ability of the mutant proteins to form a complex with class I antigens, retain them in the ER, and prevent cytolysis by adenovirus-specific CTL. All mutant proteins except one (residues 102 to 107 deleted) were defective for these properties, indicating that the ability of gp19K to bind to class I antigens is highly sensitive to mutation. All mutant proteins were stable and were retained in the ER. Sequence comparisons among adenovirus serotypes reveal that the ER lumenal domain of gp19K consists of a variable region (residues 1 to 76) and a conserved region (residues 77 to 98). We show, using the mutant proteins, that the gp19K-specific monoclonal antibody Tw1.3 recognizes a noncontiguous epitope in the variable region and that disruption of the variable region by deletion destroys the epitope. The monoclonal antibody and class I antigen binding results, together with the serotype sequence comparisons, are consistent with the idea that the ER lumenal domain of gp19K has three subdomains that we have termed the ER lumenal variable domain (residues 1 to ca. 77 to 83), the ER lumenal conserved domain (residues ca. 84 to 98), and the ER lumenal spacer domain (residues 99 to 107). We suggest that the ER lumenal variable domain of gp19K has a specific tertiary structure that is important for binding to the polymorphic alpha 1 and alpha 2 domains of class I heavy (alpha) chains. We suggest that the ER lumenal conserved domain of gp19K may interact with some conserved protein, perhaps the highly conserved alpha 3 domain of class I heavy chains. Finally, the ER lumenal spacer domain may allow the ER lumenal variable and conserved domains to extend out from the ER membrane so that they can interact with class I heavy chains.
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- T W Hermiston
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri 63104
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Girdlestone J. An HLA-B regulatory element binds a factor immunologically related to the upstream stimulation factor. Immunogenetics 1993; 38:430-6. [PMID: 7691734 DOI: 10.1007/bf00184523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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HLA-A and -B are expressed by most cell types, and their levels can be increased by treatment with interferons (IFNs). The relative basal levels of HLA-A and -B expression can vary, and HLA-B loci are induced much more strongly by IFNs. Constitutive activity is dependent on an upstream enhancer (ENH) which contains a rel (KBF, NF kappa B) binding motif, and induction is mediated by an interferon response element (IRE) which binds members of the IRF family. Reported here is the identification of a regulatory element, 'R', which overlaps the IRE of HLA-B loci, but which is absent from the equivalent region of HLA-A or H2 class I genes. The core of the element, CACGAG, is bound by a nuclear factor which is recognized by an antiserum raised against the upstream stimulation factor (USF), a member of the helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper family. The use of reporter gene constructs shows that mutation of the R element results in increased induction by IFN alpha in some cell lines, which appears to be due to competitive binding of USF with IRF proteins.
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- J Girdlestone
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Cambridge, UK
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Yamasaki T, Klein G, Ljunggren HG, Kärre K, Moritake K, Paine JT, Kikuchi H. Role of histocompatibility antigen gene and protooncogene expressions in intracerebral tumorigenicity of mouse neuroblastoma. J Neurosurg 1993; 78:619-29. [PMID: 8450336 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1993.78.4.0619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The role of N-myc, c-src, and major histocompatibility complex (MHC, H-2 in the mouse) class I antigen gene expressions in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-induced differentiation and intracerebral tumorigenicity was examined using a mouse MNB85 neuroblastoma cell line. A fluorescence-activated cell sorter disclosed cell-surface MHC enhancement by DMSO, causing an increase in cytotoxic T-lymphocyte sensitivity. Southern blot analysis verified a single copy of the proto-oncogenes and MHC deoxyribonucleic acids in both untreated and DMSO-treated MNB85 cells. Northern blot analysis indicated that DMSO treatment induced a decrease in N-myc and an increase in c-src and MHC messenger ribonucleic acids. Nuclear run-off transcription assay revealed down-regulation of N-myc at a posttranscriptional level, contrasted with primary up-regulation of c-src at a transcriptional level. Immunoprecipitation after treatment with enzyme endo-beta-N-acetyl-glycoseamidase H proved that the terminal glycosylation of MHC heavy-chain gene products normally occurs in the Golgi apparatus of MNB85 cells. Intracerebral tumorigenicity assay showed that cells highly MHC-expressed by DMSO were less tumorigenic than untreated cells in association with DMSO-augmented cytotoxic T-lymphocyte susceptibility. These results suggest that proto-oncogenes may be linked to cellular differentiation, while cell-surface MHC gene expression influences intracerebral immunosurveillance.
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- T Yamasaki
- Department of Neurosurgery, Shimane Medical University, Izumo, Japan
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Niewiesk S, Brinckmann U, Bankamp B, Sirak S, Liebert UG, ter Meulen V. Susceptibility to measles virus-induced encephalitis in mice correlates with impaired antigen presentation to cytotoxic T lymphocytes. J Virol 1993; 67:75-81. [PMID: 8093223 PMCID: PMC237339 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.1.75-81.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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In measles virus (MV) infection in humans, meningitis and encephalitis are important complications. However, little is known of the pathogenesis of MV encephalitis, in particular about the role of the immune response. We have examined the role of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in a mouse model of MV-induced encephalitis. We report here that the resistance of inbred strains of mice to MV-induced encephalitis correlated with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotype and that only resistant mouse strains mounted an effective CTL response to MV. Mice with low susceptibility to MV infection, such as the BALB/c strain (H-2d), generated CTL, whereas the highly susceptible strains, C3H (H-2k) and C57BL/6 (H-2b), revealed very poor CTL responses. MV-induced CTL were usually CD8+, and the generation of these cells was independent of the route of inoculation or the time postinfection. CD4+ T cells were generally only weakly lytic. The nucleocapsid protein was the major target antigen for CTL in BALB/c mice, although in some experiments the hemagglutinin was also recognized. CTL from C3H and C57BL/6 mice did not lyse MV-infected target cells. However, targets infected with vaccinia virus recombinants expressing the nucleocapsid protein or hemagglutinin were lysed, but levels of cytotoxicity were still low. Experiments using target cells transfected with single MHC class I genes suggested inefficient antigen presentation of MV proteins by the MHC molecules of the H-2k and H-2b haplotypes.
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- S Niewiesk
- Institut für Virologie und Immunobiologie, Würzburg, Germany
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Gombold JL, Weiss SR. Mouse hepatitis virus A59 increases steady-state levels of MHC mRNAs in primary glial cell cultures and in the murine central nervous system. Microb Pathog 1992; 13:493-505. [PMID: 1338798 PMCID: PMC7135806 DOI: 10.1016/0882-4010(92)90015-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Infection of mixed glial cell cultures with mouse hepatitis virus (MHV)-A59 results in an approximately six-fold increase in the level of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I mRNA. In situ hybridization of glial cell cultures infected with MHV-A59 again showed enhanced MHC mRNA expression, both in infected and uninfected cells. These results extend our earlier finding that MHC surface antigens are enhanced on astrocytes and oligodendrocytes after MHV-A59 infection and suggest that this enhancement is a result of an increase in the steady-state level of MHC mRNA. We further demonstrate that increases in MHC mRNA occur in the murine central nervous system (CNS) following infection in vivo. Northern blot analysis of RNA from the brains of infected animals showed transient expression of both MHC class I and class II mRNA over the first 14 days of infection. Expression coincided with viral replication and clearance. In situ hybridization of brain sections from infected animals showed that class I and class II expression was widespread throughout all portions of the brain and in uninfected as well as infected cells. Viral RNA, in contrast, was observed in small foci of cells and mostly within the limbic system. Thus enhancement of MHC mRNA was not restricted either to areas of infection or inflammation. The spatial relationship between viral and MHC expression supports our hypothesis that a soluble mediator is involved in the mechanism of the increase in MHC levels. The fact that MHC induction occurs in vivo as well as in vitro suggests MHC may be important in the mechanism of MHV-induced disease.
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- J L Gombold
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104
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Majewski S, Jablonska S. Epidermodysplasia verruciformis as a model of human papillomavirus-induced genetic cancers: the role of local immunosurveillance. Am J Med Sci 1992; 304:174-9. [PMID: 1335684 DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199209000-00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV) presents a genetically determined, unusual susceptibility to infection with EV-specific human papillomaviruses (HPVs) related to abrogation of immunosurveillance exclusively against these viruses. The cutaneous viral carcinogenesis depends upon potentially oncogenic HPVs, the cocarcinogenic effect of ultraviolet irradiation, and genetic host factors, presumably a defect of anti-oncogenes or alleles of major histocompatibility complex and tumor necrosis factor locus involved in antigen presentation.
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- S Majewski
- Department of Dermatology, Warsaw School of Medicine, Poland
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del Val M, Hengel H, Häcker H, Hartlaub U, Ruppert T, Lucin P, Koszinowski UH. Cytomegalovirus prevents antigen presentation by blocking the transport of peptide-loaded major histocompatibility complex class I molecules into the medial-Golgi compartment. J Exp Med 1992; 176:729-38. [PMID: 1324970 PMCID: PMC2119349 DOI: 10.1084/jem.176.3.729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Selective expression of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) immediate-early (IE) genes leads to the presentation by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecule Ld of a peptide derived from MCMV IE protein pp89 (Reddehase, M.J., J. B. Rothbard, and U.H. Koszinowski. 1989. Nature (Lond.). 337:651). Characterization of endogenous antigenic peptides identified the pp89 peptide as the nonapeptide 168YPHFMPTNL176 (del Val, M., H.-J. Schlicht, T. Ruppert, M.J. Reddehase, and U.H. Koszinowski. 1991. Cell. 66:1145). Subsequent expression of MCMV early genes prevents presentation of pp89 (del Val, M., K. Münch, M.J. Reddehase, and U.H. Koszinowski. 1989. Cell. 58:305). We report on the mechanism by which MCMV early genes interfere with antigen presentation. Expression of the IE promoter-driven bacterial gene lacZ by recombinant MCMV subjected antigen presentation of beta-galactosidase to the same control and excluded antigen specificity. The Ld-dependent presence of naturally processed antigenic peptides also in nonpresenting cells located the inhibitory function subsequent to the step of antigen processing. The finding that during the E phase of MCMV gene expression the MHC class I heavy chain glycosylation remained in an Endo H-sensitive form suggested a block within the endoplasmic reticulum/cis-Golgi compartment. The failure to present antigenic peptides was explained by a general retention of nascent assembled trimolecular MHC class I complexes. Accordingly, at later stages of infection a significant decrease of surface MHC class I expression was seen, whereas other membrane glycoproteins remained unaffected. Thus, MCMV E genes endow this virus with an effective immune evasion potential. These results also indicate that the formation of the trimolecular complex of MHC class I heavy chain, beta 2-microglobulin, and the finally trimmed peptide is completed before entering the medial-Golgi compartment.
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- M del Val
- Department of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany
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Bourgeade MF, Silbermann F, Kühn L, Testa U, Peschle C, Mémet S, Thang MN, Besançon F. Post-transcriptional regulation of transferrin receptor mRNA by IFN gamma. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:2997-3003. [PMID: 1620595 PMCID: PMC312429 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.12.2997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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IFN gamma inhibits the rise in transferrin receptor mRNA level which is normally observed when stationary WISH cells are stimulated to proliferate. This effect is not attributable to a change in the transcription rate of the transferrin receptor gene or in the cytoplasmic stability of the mRNA. The IFN gamma-induced reduction of the transferrin receptor mRNA content is already present at the nuclear level to an extent comparable to that observed in whole cells. Thus, IFN gamma does not impair the passage of this mRNA from the nuclear to the cytoplasmic compartment but probably interferes with a nuclear post-transcriptional event during the processing of the immature transferrin receptor mRNA. Two different levels of regulation of transferrin receptor mRNA have been previously reported. Iron modulates the cytoplasmic stability of this mRNA through the binding of a specific cytoplasmic factor, whereas cell growth variation influences the transcription of this gene. Our results suggest the existence of another mechanism of regulation for transferrin receptor gene expression not so far considered. Furthermore, the distinction between the mechanism of regulation exerted by IFN gamma and that exerted by cell proliferation on transferrin receptor gene expression suggests that, in WISH cells, the IFN-induced transferrin receptor decay is not a consequence of cell growth arrest but rather one of the causes of the antiproliferative effect of IFN through iron deprivation.
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Henderson BR, McDonald DA, Kefford RF. Post-transcriptional regulation of urokinase plasminogen activator gene expression occurs in the nucleus of BC1 rat mammary tumor cells. Int J Cancer 1992; 50:918-23. [PMID: 1555891 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910500617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The regulation of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) expression was investigated in 2 highly metastatic rat mammary adenocarcinoma cell lines, BC1 and MAT 13762. BC1 cells were observed to synthesize, on average, 10 times less uPA enzyme and mRNA than MAT 13762 cells; however this difference was not accounted for by differences in uPA gene copy number/structure or in the rate of uPA gene transcription in the cell lines studied. Moreover, Northern blot analysis of invasive sub-populations derived in vitro from the BC1 cell line revealed levels of uPA expression similar to those of the parent, but a 3-fold elevation in expression of the metalloprotease gene, transin. Further investigation showed that treatment of BC1 cells with either of the protein synthesis inhibitors, cycloheximide or anisomycin, increased the level of both nuclear and cytoplasmic uPA RNA 6- to 18-fold in 4 hr, whilst inducing a maximum 2.6-fold increase in the rate of uPA gene transcription. This increase in uPA gene expression may therefore reflect, in part, an increase in the stability and/or processing of nuclear uPA transcripts. These results suggest that the degree of uPA gene expression does not correlate directly with BC1 tumor-cell invasion in vitro, and that the uPA gene is down-regulated, at least in part, post-transcriptionally in the nucleus of BC1 mammary tumor cells.
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MESH Headings
- 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene
- Adenocarcinoma/chemically induced
- Adenocarcinoma/enzymology
- Adenocarcinoma/genetics
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Line
- Cycloheximide/pharmacology
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification
- Doxorubicin/pharmacology
- Gene Expression
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/chemically induced
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/enzymology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- RNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification
- Rats
- Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
- Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator/genetics
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- B R Henderson
- Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia
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Shemesh J, Rotem-Yehudar R, Ehrlich R. Transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of class I major histocompatibility complex genes following transformation with human adenoviruses. J Virol 1991; 65:5544-8. [PMID: 1895404 PMCID: PMC249056 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.10.5544-5548.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Transformation of rodent cells by human adenoviruses is a well-established model system for studying the expression, regulation, and function of class I antigens. In this report, we demonstrate that the highly oncogenic adenovirus type 12 operates at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels in regulating the activity of major histocompatibility complex class I genes and products in transformed cells. Adenovirus type 12 suppresses the cell surface expression of class I antigens in most cell lines. Nevertheless, in a number of cell lines suppression is the result of reduction in the amount of stable specific mRNA, while in another group of cell lines suppression involves interference with processing of a posttranscriptional product. The two mechanisms operate both for the endogenous H-2 genes and for a miniature swine class I transgene that is expressed in the cells.
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- J Shemesh
- Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Daujat M, Clair P, Astier C, Fabre I, Pineau T, Yerle M, Gellin J, Maurel P. Induction, regulation and messenger half-life of cytochromes P450 IA1, IA2 and IIIA6 in primary cultures of rabbit hepatocytes. CYP 1A1, 1A2 and 3A6 chromosome location in the rabbit and evidence that post-transcriptional control of gene IA2 does not involve mRNA stabilization. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 200:501-10. [PMID: 1889414 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb16211.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A study on the regulation and induction of expression of cytochromes P450-IA1, IA2 and IIIA6 genes has been undertaken using primary cultures of adult rabbit hepatocytes grown in a serum-free chemically and hormonally defined medium. In 72-h-old cultures, 50 microM beta-naphthoflavone induced both IA1 and IA2 mRNA, the maximal level being reached after 4 h and 12 h, respectively. This was shown to result from an increase in the rate of transcription of gene IA1. In contrast, gene IA2 was constitutively transcribed in untreated cells, but mRNA only accumulated in the presence of beta-naphthoflavone which, however, did not affect the rate of transcription. Actinomycin D fully blocked induction of both IA1 and IA2 mRNA in response to their inducer. In untreated cells the presence of cycloheximide allowed a 'constitutive' expression of gene IA1, while in beta-naphthoflavone-treated cells, it produced a super-induction of IA1 but no modification of IA2 gene expression. Rifampicin (50 microM) strongly increased the IA1 mRNA level and rate of transcription only in cycloheximide-treated cells. Rifampicin and dexamethasone, two prototypical inducers of P450-IIIAs, induced both large and small IIIA6 mRNAs in a time-dependent fashion, the maximum level being reached after 24 h. This was related to a large increase in the rate of transcription of the gene. Cycloheximide significantly decreased the accumulation of both IIIA6 mRNAs in response to rifampicin, while actinomycin D fully blocked induction. The half-lives of IA1, IA2 and IIIA6 mRNAs were determined by two different methods, namely actinomycin D and [3H]uridine-chase experiments. In untreated cells, the half-lives for IA1, IA2 and IIIA6 mRNAs were 14 h, 16 h and 19 h, respectively when determined by the uridine chase and 18 h, 25 h and 22 h when determined by the actinomycin-D chase. These values were not modified significantly in cells treated with beta-naphthoflavone or rifampicin, indicating that neither of these inducers affected the stability of IA1 and IA2 or IIIA6 messages, respectively.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- M Daujat
- INSERM U-128, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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Askew G, Wang S, Lukens L. Different levels of regulation accomplish the switch from type II to type I collagen gene expression in 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine-treated chondrocytes. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55377-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Nigro JM, Cho KR, Fearon ER, Kern SE, Ruppert JM, Oliner JD, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B. Scrambled exons. Cell 1991; 64:607-13. [PMID: 1991322 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(91)90244-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 720] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Using a sensitive assay for RNA expression, we identified several abnormally spliced transcripts in which exons from a candidate tumor suppressor gene (DCC) were scrambled during the splicing process in vivo. Cloning and sequencing of PCR-amplified segments of the abnormally spliced transcripts showed that exons were joined accurately at consensus splice sites, but in an order different from that present in the primary transcript. Four scrambled transcripts were identified, each involving a different pair of exons. The scrambled transcripts were found at relatively low levels in a variety of normal and neoplastic cells of rodent and human origin, primarily in the nonpolyadenylated component of cytoplasmic RNA. These results demonstrate that the splicing process does not always pair sequential exons in the order predicted from their positions in genomic DNA, thus creating a novel type of RNA product.
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- J M Nigro
- Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231
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Tobler A, Koeffler HP. Myeloperoxidase: Localization, Structure, and Function. BLOOD CELL BIOCHEMISTRY 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-3796-0_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Gross RE, Lu XY, Rubin CS. Regulation of the expression of the regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase II beta in Friend erythroleukemic cells. Evidence for posttranscriptional control and a central role for the C subunit. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)39050-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Bourbon HM, Amalric F. Nucleolin gene organization in rodents: highly conserved sequences within three of the 13 introns. Gene 1990; 88:187-96. [PMID: 2347493 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(90)90031-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The complete nucleotide (nt) sequence of the rat nuc gene encoding nucleolin, the major nucleolar-specific protein in eukaryotic exponentially growing cells, is compared with the corresponding locus recently characterized in mouse. [Bourbon et al., J. Mol. Biol. 200 (1988) 627-638]. In both murine species the genomic organization has been strikingly conserved during evolution, i.e., the coding region extends over 9 kb and is split into 14 exons, encoding a 712-amino acid protein. Moreover, all the exon-intron junction positions were strictly maintained during evolution. More unexpectedly, this analysis revealed that several introns contain highly conserved sequence elements of about 120 nt. The nt sequence of the homologous locus isolated from a Chinese hamster genomic clone established that these regions were under unusually high selective constraints (84-96% identity between the hamster and murine nuc genes) and, although they do not contain open reading frames, they surprisingly appear to be more conserved than most of the exons, suggesting that they play an important role. Such an element of 130 nt presents features of known genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III. Furthermore, in the rat nuc pre-mRNA the 5'- and 3'-end regions of the last intron are fully complementary over 16 nt, and so are predicted to be included in a prominent stem structure. Moreover, an homologous RNA stem structure can be derived from the mouse sequence, including two compensatory nt changes. As the secondary structure would occlude the canonical sequences required for the proper excision of this intron in both murine species, this remarkable finding could be relevant to the regulation of the nuc gene expression at the RNA processing level.
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- H M Bourbon
- Centre de Recherche de Biochimie et de Génétique Cellulaires du C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France
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Rochette-Egly C, Fromental C, Chambon P. General repression of enhanson activity by the adenovirus-2 E1A proteins. Genes Dev 1990; 4:137-50. [PMID: 2155159 DOI: 10.1101/gad.4.1.137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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It has been shown previously that the adenovirus 2 (Ad2) E1A proteins repress activation of transcription by the SV40, polyomavirus and immunoglobulin gene enhancers. Here, we demonstrate that the repression of the SV40 enhancer is not specifically mediated by one of its constituent enhansons and/or proto-enhancers, but that each is subject to repression individually. This inhibitory effect of the E1A proteins is also observed with the AP-1 factor-binding enhansons from the polyomavirus and human metallothionein enhancers, and the MHC class I gene H-2Kb enhanson, which binds the KBF1/H2TF1/TC-IIB protein. Repression by the E1A gene products may, in fact, extend to all enhancer trans-activators, because the transcriptional activities of nuclear receptors (e.g., the estrogen and glucocorticoid receptors), of the yeast enhancer factor GAL4 expressed in HeLa cells, and of chimeric trans-activators (such as GAL-VP16) are all similarly inhibited. The E1A protein domains 2 and 3, including the acidic amino acid stretch that has been shown previously to be necessary for E1A-mediated trans-activation, are not required for repression. These results indicate that the amino-terminal region of the protein, which contains domain 1, plays a crucial role in repression, possibly by interfering in the transcriptional activation process at a step common to all trans-acting enhancer factors.
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- C Rochette-Egly
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculté de Médećine, Strasbourg, France
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Laatikainen A, Karjalainen H, Jägerroos H, Sarkkinen H, Mäntyjärvi R. Tumorigenicity and H-2 expression of papillomavirus-transformed mouse cell lines. Cancer Immunol Immunother 1990; 31:164-8. [PMID: 2159847 PMCID: PMC11038051 DOI: 10.1007/bf01744731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/1989] [Accepted: 11/07/1989] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Tumorigenicity in immunocompetent syngeneic mice and H-2 class I antigen expression of BPV1-transformed mouse cell lines had no correlation. H-2 expression was examined using monoclonal anti-(H-2Kb) and anti-(H-2Db) antibodies in immunofluorescence staining for flow cytometry analysis and by determining the sensitivity of the cells to cytolysis by allostimulated spleen cells. Nontumorigenic cell lines were as resistant as tumorigenic cell lines to natural killer activity. The results indicate that in our model defence by natural killer cells is not a decisive factor. The results also show that instead of or in addition to H-2 class I antigens other factors (e.g. the presence or absence of virus-specific antigens) are important in determining the tumorigenicity of BPV1-transformed cell lines.
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- A Laatikainen
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Kuopio, Finland
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Hickstein DD, Back AL, Collins SJ. Regulation of expression of the CD11b and CD18 subunits of the neutrophil adherence receptor during human myeloid differentiation. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)88256-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Rotteveel FT, Neefjes JJ, Ploegh HL, Lucas CJ. Influenza virus changes cell-surface glycoproteins including major histocompatibility complex determinants on lymphocytes. Hum Immunol 1989; 26:199-213. [PMID: 2514159 DOI: 10.1016/0198-8859(89)90039-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The effect of influenza virus infection on the expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens was investigated. Infection with influenza virus resulted in an increase of the binding of anti-MHC class I and class II antibodies to resting T cells. The binding of anti-MHC class II antibodies to activated T cells was increased approximately threefold. The binding of anti-MHC class I and class II antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cells appeared unaffected after influenza virus infection. Recombinant human interferon-alpha and/or -gamma added to T cells did not enhance the binding of anti-MHC antibodies. Biochemical analysis revealed no increase in the amount of class I and class II antigens as a consequence of viral infection, but a marked decrease in sialic acid content was found, most probably caused by the viral neuraminidase. Pulse-chase experiments suggest that the viral neuraminidase can catalyze the removal of sialic acids both en route to and at the cell surface. The absence of sialic acid residues can explain the increased binding of anti-MHC antibodies, because neuraminidase (clostridium perfringens) treatment of T and Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cells resulted in a shift in both isoelectric point and antibody binding similar to that observed after influenza virus infection.
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- F T Rotteveel
- Central Laboratory of The Netherlands Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Amsterdam
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Ackrill AM, Blair GE. Nuclear proteins binding to an enhancer element of the major histocompatibility class I promoter: differences between highly oncogenic and nononcogenic adenovirus-transformed rat cells. Virology 1989; 172:643-6. [PMID: 2800342 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(89)90207-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Two major DNA-binding activities specific for the major histocompatibility (MHC) class I regulatory element (CRE) were detected in adenovirus (Ad)-transformed cells. One activity, term CRE1, had similar binding properties to a previously described positive-acting transcription factor specific for MHC class I genes termed H2TF1. The other activity, termed CRE2, bound to a region on the CRE separate from CRE1, and was present in Ad12, but not in Ad5-transformed cells. A CRE2-like activity was also present in non-adenovirus-transformed mouse L929 cells, indicating that CRE2 may be a cellular, rather than a viral, factor. The CRE2 activity did not correspond to any previously described transcription factor with a potential binding site in the CRE.
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- A M Ackrill
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Meijer I, Jochemsen AG, de Wit CM, Bos JL, Morello D, van der Eb AJ. Adenovirus type 12 E1A down regulates expression of a transgene under control of a major histocompatibility complex class I promoter: evidence for transcriptional control. J Virol 1989; 63:4039-42. [PMID: 2527313 PMCID: PMC251002 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.9.4039-4042.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The E1 region of human adenovirus type 12 (Ad12 E1) represses the expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes in transformed primary rodent cells. Conflicting results have been reported as to whether this E1A-mediated repression occurs at a transcriptional or a posttranscriptional level. In the present study, we show that in Ad12 E1-transformed primary baby mouse kidney cells from transgenic mice harboring the human growth hormone gene under control of an H-2K promoter both the expression of the endogenous MHC class I genes and the expression of the transgene are repressed. This experiment, as well as nuclear run-on analyses performed with single-stranded probes, revealed that Ad12 E1A inhibits MHC class I gene expression by repressing its promoter.
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- I Meijer
- Laboratory for Molecular Carcinogenesis, Sylvius Laboratories, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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Del Val M, Münch K, Reddehase MJ, Koszinowski UH. Presentation of CMV immediate-early antigen to cytolytic T lymphocytes is selectively prevented by viral genes expressed in the early phase. Cell 1989; 58:305-15. [PMID: 2473842 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(89)90845-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The regulation of antigen processing and presentation to MHC class I-restricted cytolytic T lymphocytes was studied in cells infected with murine cytomegalovirus. Recognition by cytolytic T lymphocytes of the phosphoprotein pp89, the immunodominant viral antigen expressed in the immediate-early phase of infection, was selectively prevented during the subsequent expression of viral early genes. The surface expression of MHC class I glycoproteins and their capacity to present externally added pp89-derived antigenic peptides were not affected. Because recognition of several other antigens occurred during the early phase, a general failure in processing and presentation was excluded. Since neither rate of synthesis, amount, stability, nor nuclear transport of pp89 was modified, the failure in recognition indicates a selective interference with pp89 antigen processing and presentation.
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- M Del Val
- Department of Virology University of Ulm, Federal Republic of Germany
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Masucci MG, Stam NJ, Torsteinsdottir S, Neefjes JJ, Klein G, Ploegh HL. Allele-specific down-regulation of MHC class I antigens in Burkitt lymphoma lines. Cell Immunol 1989; 120:396-400. [PMID: 2541930 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(89)90207-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We have reported that Burkitt lymphomas (BL) that arise in HLA-A11 positive individuals are resistant to lysis by HLA-A11-specific and HLA-A11-restricted CTLs(10,11). Here we show that this phenomenon can be explained by a selective loss of the HLA-A11 polypeptide. The HLA-A11 negative phenotype is due to a regulatory phenomenon, rather than a structural defect, as proven by the ability to rescue expression of HLA-A11 in in vitro Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-converted sublines of EBV negative BLs.
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- M G Masucci
- Department of Tumor Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are secreted by mammalian liver in response to inflammatory stimuli. Both transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms have been shown to regulate the 2,000-fold increase in SAA mRNA after injection of endotoxin into mice. We report here the characterization of a cell line derived from mouse liver (BNL) in which the expression of SAA3 mRNA is regulated. In this model, SAA3 mRNA accumulated in response to conditioned medium from the mouse macrophage P388D1 cell line with kinetics similar to that seen in mouse liver (C. A. Lowell, R. S. Stearman, and J. F. Morrow, J. Biol. Chem. 261:8453-8461, 1986). In in vitro nuclear transcription assays, the SAA3 gene was transcribed equally in induced and uninduced cells. In addition, in steady-state RNA studies treatment with conditioned medium allowed the cells to rapidly accumulate SAA3 mRNA without an apparent change in half-life. These observations suggest that conditioned medium contains a factor(s) that acts directly on hepatocytes to regulate SAA3 mRNA processing.
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De Giovanni C, Nicoletti G, Del Re B, Scotlandi K, Prodi G, Lollini PL, Nanni P. Tumorigenic and metastatic ability of SV40-transformed BALB/c cell lines and MHC antigen expression. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOGENETICS 1989; 16:45-51. [PMID: 2550556 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313x.1989.tb00446.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Tumorigenic and metastatic potential were studied in relation to class I MHC expression in four different SV40-transformed BALB/c cell lines. All the lines studied, tumorigenic or not, expressed both H-2Kd and Dd, so MHC antigens did not seem to be involved in the control of SV40-transformed cells' growth in vivo. Lung metastases were observed in all tumour-bearing mice. Cells cultured after in vivo passage, obtained either from tumour tissue or from individual lung metastases, still expressed similar levels of H-2d antigens, thus suggesting that tumour growth and metastasis do not occur through the selection of variants with altered MHC expression.
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- C De Giovanni
- Istituto di Cancerologia, Università di Bologna, Italy
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van der Eb AJ, Timmers HT, Offringa R, Zantema A, van den Heuvel SJ, van Dam JA, Bos JL. Suppression of cellular gene activity in adenovirus-transformed cells. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1989; 144:197-207. [PMID: 2676361 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74578-2_25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Elliott BE, Carlow DA, Rodricks AM, Wade A. Perspectives on the role of MHC antigens in normal and malignant cell development. Adv Cancer Res 1989; 53:181-245. [PMID: 2678947 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60282-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- B E Elliott
- Department of Pathology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Greenhalgh DA, Parish JH. Effects of 5-fluorouracil on cytotoxicity and RNA metabolism in human colonic carcinoma cells. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 1989; 25:37-44. [PMID: 2591000 DOI: 10.1007/bf00694336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The cytotoxicity of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is due in part to the incorporation of the base into RNA molecules. We assessed the cytotoxicity of 5-FU in human colonic carcinoma HT-29 cells and examined mRNA activity (measured by protein biosynthesis in vivo and in vitro) and the maturation of rRNA precursors as two possible modes of action of 5-FU. The rRNA processing pathways were studied using rDNA sequences as probes in blot hybridisation protocols and were specific for both the precursors and mature rRNA species of the maturation pathways. The conclusion from the studies was that although differences in mRNA activity were detected in vivo and in vitro, the significance of these changes are as yet unknown. In contrast, the effects on the pre-rRNA processing pathways proved to be highly significant cytotoxic consequences of 5-FU administration. We discuss the implications of this finding for an understanding of the mode of action of the drug and for the future monitoring of tumour sensitivity to 5-FU.
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MESH Headings
- Carcinoma/drug therapy
- Carcinoma/metabolism
- Cell Line/drug effects
- Cell Line/metabolism
- Cell Survival/drug effects
- Colonic Neoplasms/drug therapy
- Colonic Neoplasms/metabolism
- DNA Probes
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
- Fluorouracil/therapeutic use
- Fluorouracil/toxicity
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization/drug effects
- RNA, Neoplasm/drug effects
- RNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification
- RNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal/drug effects
- RNA, Ribosomal/isolation & purification
- RNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/drug effects
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/metabolism
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Offringa R, Smits AM, Houweling A, Bos JL, van der Eb AJ. Similar effects of adenovirus E1A and glucocorticoid hormones on the expression of the metalloprotease stromelysin. Nucleic Acids Res 1988; 16:10973-84. [PMID: 3205738 PMCID: PMC338991 DOI: 10.1093/nar/16.23.10973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The stromelysin (sml) gene encodes a secreted protease which degrades components of the extracellular matrix. Transformation of NRK49F cells by the E1A region of adenovirus (Ad) type 5 or 12 reduces sml RNA levels, whereas various growth factors or EJras-mediated transformation stimulate sml gene expression in these cells. Nuclear run-on experiments show that AdE1A, growth factors and EJras act on sml gene expression at the level of transcription. Although the sml gene is strongly suppressed in AdE1A-transformed cells, treatment with growth factors or transfection of EJras still causes a raise in sml mRNA levels, indicating that E1A does not block the induction mechanism itself. The effect of glucocorticoid hormones on sml gene expression is very similar to that of AdE1A, in that mRNA levels are lowered without affecting the induction phenomenon. This similarity may provide a clue to the mechanism by which AdE1A represses cellular gene activity.
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- R Offringa
- Laboratory for Molecular Carcinogenesis, Sylvius Laboratories, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Song MK, Dozin B, Grieco D, Rall JE, Nikodem VM. Transcriptional activation and stabilization of malic enzyme mRNA precursor by thyroid hormone. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)81310-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are secreted by mammalian liver in response to inflammatory stimuli. Both transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms have been shown to regulate the 2,000-fold increase in SAA mRNA after injection of endotoxin into mice. We report here the characterization of a cell line derived from mouse liver (BNL) in which the expression of SAA3 mRNA is regulated. In this model, SAA3 mRNA accumulated in response to conditioned medium from the mouse macrophage P388D1 cell line with kinetics similar to that seen in mouse liver (C. A. Lowell, R. S. Stearman, and J. F. Morrow, J. Biol. Chem. 261:8453-8461, 1986). In in vitro nuclear transcription assays, the SAA3 gene was transcribed equally in induced and uninduced cells. In addition, in steady-state RNA studies treatment with conditioned medium allowed the cells to rapidly accumulate SAA3 mRNA without an apparent change in half-life. These observations suggest that conditioned medium contains a factor(s) that acts directly on hepatocytes to regulate SAA3 mRNA processing.
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- H Y Rienhoff
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98104
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Tobler A, Miller CW, Johnson KR, Selsted ME, Rovera G, Koeffler HP. Regulation of gene expression of myeloperoxidase during myeloid differentiation. J Cell Physiol 1988; 136:215-25. [PMID: 2842344 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041360203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is a major heme enzyme involved in inflammatory responses of polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Using cDNA and intron specific probes for MPO we studied the regulation of MPO expression during myeloid differentiation of the promyelocytic HL-60 leukemia cell line. Mature MPO mRNA species of 3.3, 2.8 and 1.6 kb and heterogeneous nuclear (hn) RNA of greater than 8 and approximately 4 kb were observed in wildtype HL-60 cells. Induction of differentiation of the cells towards either granulocytes or macrophages resulted in a profound decrease (greater than 95%) in the concentration of MPO mRNA levels, showing that gene expression of MPO mRNA is closely linked to the stage of development of myeloid cells. Studies using normal and leukemic hematopoietic cells confirmed these findings and showed that myeloblasts and promyelocytes contain MPO mRNA. Rate of transcription of MPO was measured by a nuclear run-on assay in wild-type and day 3- and day -4 differentiated HL-60 cells and was nearly the same in all three. In contrast, rate of transcription of c-myc in the same nuclei became almost undetectable with induction of differentiation. Overall transcription decreased by 60% and 80% on day 3 and 4 of differentiation, respectively, compared to wild-type cells. Stability of mature MPO mRNA was also measured and found to be the same in wild-type and differentiated HL-60. Half-life of MPO hnRNA was less than or equal to 30 min in wild-type HL-60; nevertheless, this hnRNA was easily detectable 3 days after induction of differentiation of these cells. Taken together, the results show that decreased expression of MPO mRNA with differentiation occurs in part post-transcriptionally, possibly due to a failure in RNA processing. In addition, as overall transcription decreases during differentiation, MPO transcription is concomitantly reduced. This indicates that transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms cooperate in the control of MPO gene expression.
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- A Tobler
- Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center 90024
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Tanaka Y, Tevethia SS. Differential effect of adenovirus 2 E3/19K glycoprotein on the expression of H-2Kb and H-2Db class I antigens and H-2Kb- and H-2Db-restricted SV40-specific CTL-mediated lysis. Virology 1988; 165:357-66. [PMID: 2970152 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(88)90580-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The E3/19-kDa glycoprotein (E3/19K) coded by adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) is known to inhibit the cell-surface expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigens by binding to the MHC antigens intracellularly, and thus reduces recognition of antigens by MHC-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). We have studied the effect of the E3/19K expression in SV40-infected monkey cells, TC-7/H-2Kb and TC-7/H-2Db expressing transfected H-2Kb and H-2Db antigens, respectively, on the cell-surface H-2 class I antigens and on lysis of the cells by SV40 large tumor (T)-antigen-specific H-2Kb- and H-2Db-restricted CTL clones. H-2Db antigen expression on TC-7/H-2Db cells was drastically reduced by infection with Ad2 but not with an E3/19K-negative SV40-Ad2 hybrid virus, Ad2+ND1, as early as 12 hr postinfection. However, H-2Kb antigen expression on Ad2-infected TC7/H-2Kb cells remained unaltered, even at 24 hr postinfection. Specific lysis of SV40-infected TC-7/H-2Db cells by H-2Db-restricted SV40 T-antigen-specific CTL clones, Y-1 and Y-3, was strongly reduced by coinfection of the target cells with Ad2 but not with Ad2+ND1. Lysis of SV40-infected TC-7/H-2Kb cells by a H-2Kb-restricted SV40 T-antigen-specific CTL clone Y-4 was also reduced significantly by Ad2 infection, but not Ad2+ND1. These results indicate that the E3/19K protein affects cell-surface expression of H-2Db antigen but not H-2Kb antigen.
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- Y Tanaka
- Department of Microbiology, Penn State University, College of Medicine, Hershey 17033
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Haddada H, Sogn JA, Coligan JE, Carbone M, Dixon K, Levine AS, Lewis AM. Viral gene inhibition of class I major histocompatibility antigen expression: not a general mechanism governing the tumorigenicity of adenovirus type 2-, adenovirus type 12-, and simian virus 40-transformed Syrian hamster cells. J Virol 1988; 62:2755-61. [PMID: 2839700 PMCID: PMC253709 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.8.2755-2761.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The association between the level of class I major histocompatibility (MHC) antigen expression and the tumorigenic phenotype was determined for cells from a series of 15 lines of adenovirus type 2 (Ad2)-, Ad12-, and simian virus 40 (SV40)-transformed hamster cells and 16 lines of cells established from hamster tumors induced by SV40 mutants. These cells range from nontumorigenic to highly tumorigenic in both syngeneic and allogeneic adult hamsters. The Ad2-transformed cells--cells that were nontumorigenic in syngeneic adult hamsters--expressed either high levels or low levels of class I MHC antigens. The SV40-transformed cells--cells transformed in vitro that produced tumors with equal efficiency in both syngeneic and allogeneic adult hamsters--or cells derived from SV40-induced tumors expressed very high levels of class I MHC antigens. The Ad12-transformed cells uniformly expressed low levels of class I MHC antigens; these cells produced tumors 200- to 1,000-fold less efficiently in allogeneic adult hamsters than in syngeneic adult hamsters and produced tumors with about the same efficiency in immunoimmature newborns and immunocompetent syngeneic adult hamsters. We conclude that the expression of either high levels or low levels of class I MHC antigens is, at most, a minor factor in the differences observed among these adenovirus- and SV40-transformed cells in their tumor-inducing capacity in naive, immunocompetent hamsters.
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- H Haddada
- Section on Viruses and Cellular Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Rejection of B16 melanoma induced by expression of a transfected major histocompatibility complex class I gene. Mol Cell Biol 1988. [PMID: 3380102 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.8.4.1857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Transfection of a functional major histocompatibility complex class I gene into certain tumor cells, induced by oncogenic viruses or chemical carcinogens, can effectively abrogate their tumorigenic activity. Since experimentally induced tumors possess strong tumor-specific transplantation antigens, expression of cell surface class I antigens may present the tumor cells to appropriate immune effector cells. Most spontaneously arising tumors do not possess tumor-specific transplantation antigens, and their tumorigenicity may not be affected by the expression of a transfected class I gene. We demonstrate that the poorly immunogenic B16-BL6 melanoma can be rendered nontumorigenic in syngeneic mice by the expression of the class I H-2K antigen but not the class II I-A antigen. Furthermore, the poorly tumorigenic, class I-expressing B16-BL6-transfected cells can effectively immunize syngeneic C57BL/6 mice against the highly tumorigenic, class I-deficient B16-BL6 parental cells. Our success in experimentally manipulating the tumorigenicity of a spontaneously derived neoplasm offers hope for a potential modality for the effective treatment of human cancer.
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Puvion E, Duthu A, Harper F, Ehrhart JC, Viron A, May P. Intranuclear distribution of SV40 large T-antigen and transformation-related protein p53 in abortively infected cells. Exp Cell Res 1988; 177:73-89. [PMID: 2839350 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(88)90026-2] [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: 01/02/2023]
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The intranuclear localization of SV40 T-antigen (T-Ag) and the cellular protein p53 was studied in SV40 abortively infected baby mouse kidney cells using two complementary methods of ultrastructural immunocytochemistry in combination with preferential staining of nuclear RNP components and electron microscope autoradiography. Both proteins were revealed in association with peri- and interchromatin RNP fibrils containing the newly synthesized hnRNA. In addition, T-Ag and p53 remained bound, at least in part, to the residual internal nuclear matrix following nuclease and salt extractions of infected cells. The localization of T-Ag was different in SV40 lytically infected monkey kidney cells since, in addition to hnRNP fibrils, the viral protein was also associated with cellular chromatin. However, when lytic infection was performed in conditions of blocked viral DNA replication, T-Ag was no longer associated with the cellular chromatin but remained bound to the hnRNP fibrils. We conclude that the transforming and lytic functions of T-Ag can be distinguished by different subnuclear distributions. The significance of the association of T-Ag and p53 with hnRNP fibrils and the internal nuclear matrix is discussed in relation to the role of these structures in the control of cellular mRNA biogenesis.
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- E Puvion
- Unité de Biologie et Génétique Moléculaires, Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Cancer, Villejuif, France
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