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Katsch K, de Jong SJ, Schmidt M, Müller-fleckenstein I, Fleckenstein B, Albrecht J, Biesinger B. Species restriction of Herpesvirus saimiri and Herpesvirus ateles: Human lymphocyte transformation correlates with distinct signaling properties of viral oncoproteins. Virus Res 2012; 165:179-89. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2012.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2011] [Revised: 02/06/2012] [Accepted: 02/16/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Viruses, as obligate intracellular parasites, are the pathogens that have the most intimate relationship with their host, and as such, their genomes have been shaped directly by interactions with the host proteome. Every step of the viral life cycle, from entry to budding, is orchestrated through interactions with cellular proteins. Accordingly, viruses will hijack and manipulate these proteins utilising any achievable mechanism. Yet, the extensive interactions of viral proteomes has yielded a conundrum: how do viruses commandeer so many diverse pathways and processes, given the obvious spatial constraints imposed by their compact genomes? One important approach is slowly being revealed, the extensive mimicry of host protein short linear motifs (SLiMs).
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- Norman E Davey
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Lymphomas are solid tumors consisting of lymphoid cells; they form a heterogeneous group of less or more malignant disorders. A portion of lymphomas develop due to latent herpesvirus infections established in B and/or T-lymphocytes. The basis for latency is a lifelong presence of the circularized covalently linked viral genome within nuclei of carrier lymphocytes. In certain cases, however, the essential event leading to tumor formation is the integration of a portion(s) of viral DNA into the host cell DNA. This leads to rearrangements within the host cell genome on one hand, and, on other hand, to unregulated expression of oncoproteins encoded by the integrated fragment. Our review deals with mechanisms of lymphoma formation regarding to the role of non-structural herpesvirus oncoproteins interfering with the regulation of cell division and/or exerting anti-apoptotic effects. In addition, the authors wish to highlight the common procedures, which allowed isolation and/or identification of lymphoma-associated viruses in cell cultures derived from tumors and/or proliferating lymphatic tissues.
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- J Rajčáni
- Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Virology, 84505 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Hungary.
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Garcia MI, Kaserman J, Chung YH, Jung JU, Lee SH. Herpesvirus saimiri STP-A oncoprotein utilizes Src family protein tyrosine kinase and tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factors to elicit cellular signal transduction. J Virol 2006; 81:2663-74. [PMID: 17182673 PMCID: PMC1866011 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01733-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The saimiri transforming protein oncogene, called STP-A, of herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) subgroup A is not required for viral replication but is required for lymphoid cell immortalization in culture and lymphoma induction in primates. Here we report that STP-A interacts with cellular tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factors (TRAF2 and TRAF6) and Src family protein tyrosine kinases (SF-PTKs) in a genetically and functionally separable manner and that each interaction constitutively elicits independent cellular signal transduction. The amino-terminal and central proline-rich motifs of STP-A were responsible for TRAF6 and TRAF2 interactions, respectively, and STP-A and TRAF6 interaction contributed to the majority of NF-kappaB activation, whereas STP-A and TRAF2 interaction played a minor role in NF-kappaB activation. On the other hand, interaction of STP-A with SF-PTKs through its SH2 binding motif effectively elicited AP-1 and NF-AT transcription factor activity. One cellular gene targeted by STP-A is intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), which participates in a wide range of inflammatory and immune responses. Both TRAF and SF-PTK signal transductions induced by STP-A were required for the marked increase of ICAM-1 expression. These results demonstrate that the viral oncogene STP-A independently targets two vital cellular signaling molecules and that these activities likely contribute to HVS-mediated lymphoid cell immortalization in culture and lymphoma induction in primates.
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- Maria I Garcia
- Tumor Virology Division, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, P.O. Box 9102, 1 Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA 01772-9102, USA
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Heck E, Friedrich U, Gack MU, Lengenfelder D, Schmidt M, Müller-Fleckenstein I, Fleckenstein B, Ensser A, Biesinger B. Growth transformation of human T cells by herpesvirus saimiri requires multiple Tip-Lck interaction motifs. J Virol 2006; 80:9934-42. [PMID: 17005671 PMCID: PMC1617286 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01112-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lymphoma induction and T-cell transformation by herpesvirus saimiri strain C488 depends on two viral oncoproteins, StpC and Tip. The major interaction partner of Tip is the protein tyrosine kinase Lck, a key regulator of T-cell activation. The Lck binding domain (LBD) of Tip comprises two interaction motifs, a proline-rich SH3 domain-binding sequence (SH3B) and a region with homology to the C terminus of Src family kinase domains (CSKH). In addition, biophysical binding analyses with purified Lck-SH2 domain suggest the phosphorylated tyrosine residue 127 of Tip (pY127) as a potential third Lck interaction site. Here, we addressed the relevance of the individual binding motifs, SH3B, CSKH, and pY127, for Tip-Lck interaction and for human T-cell transformation. Both motifs within the LBD displayed Lck binding activities and cooperated to achieve a highly efficient interaction, while pY127, the major tyrosine phosphorylation site of Tip, did not enhance Lck binding in T cells. Herpesvirus saimiri strain C488 recombinants lacking one or both LBD motifs of Tip lost their transforming potential on human cord blood lymphocytes. Recombinant virus expressing Tip with a mutation at position Y127 was still able to transform human T lymphocytes but, in contrast to wild-type virus, was strictly dependent on exogenous interleukin-2. Thus, the strong Lck binding mediated by cooperation of both LBD motifs was essential for the transformation of human T cells by herpesvirus saimiri C488. The major tyrosine phosphorylation site Y127 of Tip was particularly required for transformation in the absence of exogenous interleukin-2, suggesting its involvement in cytokine signaling pathways.
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- Elke Heck
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 4, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
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The human gamma(1)-herpesvirus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and the gamma(2)-herpesviruses Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), rhesus rhadinovirus (RRV), herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) and herpesvirus ateles (HVA) all contain genes located adjacent to the terminal-repeat region of their genomes, encoding membrane proteins involved in signal transduction. Designated 'terminal membrane proteins' (TMPs) because of their localization in the viral genome, they interact with a variety of cellular signalling molecules, such as non-receptor protein tyrosine kinases, tumour-necrosis factor receptor-associated factors, Ras and Janus kinase (JAK), thereby initiating further downstream signalling cascades, such as the MAPK, PI3K/Akt, NF-kappaB and JAK/STAT pathways. In the case of TMPs expressed during latent persistence of EBV and HVS (LMP1, LMP2A, Stp and Tip), their modulation of intracellular signalling pathways has been linked to the provision of survival signals to latently infected cells and, hence, a contribution to occasional cellular transformation. In contrast, activation of similar pathways by TMPs of KSHV (K1 and K15) and RRV (R1), expressed during lytic replication, may extend the lifespan of virus-producing cells, alter their migration and/or modulate antiviral immune responses. Whether R1 and K1 contribute to the oncogenic properties of KSHV and RRV has not been established satisfactorily, despite their transforming qualities in experimental settings.
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- Melanie M Brinkmann
- Institut für Virologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg Str. 1, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Virologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg Str. 1, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
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Albrecht JC, Müller-Fleckenstein I, Schmidt M, Fleckenstein B, Biesinger B. Tyrosine phosphorylation of the Tio oncoprotein is essential for transformation of primary human T cells. J Virol 2005; 79:10507-13. [PMID: 16051843 PMCID: PMC1182665 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.16.10507-10513.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human T cells are transformed to antigen-independent permanent growth in vitro upon infection with herpesvirus saimiri subgroup C strains. The viral oncoproteins required for this process, StpC and Tip, could be replaced by Tio, the oncoprotein of herpesvirus ateles. Here we demonstrate that proliferation of lymphocytes transformed with Tio-recombinant herpesvirus saimiri required the activity of Src family kinases. Src kinases had previously been identified as interaction partners of Tio. This interaction was now shown to be independent of any of the four tyrosine residues of Tio but to be dependent on an SH3-binding motif. Mutations within this motif abrogated the transforming capabilities of Tio-recombinant herpesvirus saimiri. Furthermore, kinase interaction resulted in the phosphorylation of Tio on a single tyrosine residue at position 136. Mutation of this residue in the viral context revealed that this phosphorylation site, but none of the other tyrosine residues, was required for T-cell transformation. These data indicate that the interaction of Tio with a Src kinase is essential for both the initiation and the maintenance of T-cell transformation by recombinant herpesvirus saimiri. The requirement for the tyrosine phosphorylation site at position 136 suggests a role for Tio beyond simple deregulation of the kinase.
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- Jens-Christian Albrecht
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 4, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany.
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gamma2-Herpesviruses, also termed rhadinoviruses, have long been known as animal pathogens causing lymphoproliferative diseases such as malignant catarrhal fever in cattle or T-cell lymphoma in certain Neotropical primates. The rhadinovirus prototype is Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS), a T-lymphotropic agent of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus); Herpesvirus ateles (HVA) is closely related to HVS. The first human rhadinovirus, human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8), was discovered a decade ago in Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) biopsies. It was found to be strongly associated with all forms of KS, as well as with multicentric Castleman's disease and primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). Since DNA of this virus is regularly found in all KS forms, and specifically in the spindle cells of KS, it was also termed KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Several simian rhadinoviruses related to KSHV have been discovered in various Old World primates, though they seem only loosely associated with pathogenicity or tumor induction. In contrast, HVS and HVA cause T-cell lymphoma in numerous non-natural primate hosts; HVS strains of the subgroup C are capable of transforming human and simian T-lymphocytes to continuous growth in cell culture and can provide useful tools for T-cell immunology or gene transfer. Here, we describe their natural history, genome structure, biology, and pathogenesis in T-cell transformation and oncogenesis.
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- Armin Ensser
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Herpesvirus saimiri (Saimiriine herpesvirus-2), a gamma2-herpesvirus (rhadinovirus) of non-human primates, causes T-lymphoproliferative diseases in susceptible organisms and transforms human and non-human T lymphocytes to continuous growth in vitro in the absence of stimulation. T cells transformed by H. saimiri retain many characteristics of intact T lymphocytes, such as the sensitivity to interleukin-2 and the ability to recognize the corresponding antigens. As a result, H. saimiri is widely used in immunobiology for immortalization of various difficult-to-obtain and/or -to-maintain T cells in order to obtain useful experimental models. In particular, H. saimiri-transformed human T cells are highly susceptible to infection with HIV-1 and -2. This makes them a convenient tool for propagation of poorly replicating strains of HIV, including primary clinical isolates. Therefore, the mechanisms mediating transformation of T cells by H. saimiri are of considerable interest. A single transformation-associated protein, StpA or StpB, mediates cell transformation by H. saimiri strains of group A or B, respectively. Strains of group C, which exhibit the highest oncogenic potential, have two proteins involved in transformation-StpC and Tip. Both proteins have been shown to dramatically affect signal transduction pathways leading to the activation of crucial transcription factors. This review is focused on the biological effects and molecular mechanisms of action of proteins involved in H. saimiri-dependent transformation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral/genetics
- HIV-1/genetics
- HIV-1/metabolism
- Herpesviridae Infections/genetics
- Herpesviridae Infections/metabolism
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine/genetics
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine/metabolism
- Humans
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/metabolism
- Models, Biological
- Oncogene Proteins, Viral/biosynthesis
- Oncogene Proteins, Viral/genetics
- Tumor Virus Infections/genetics
- Tumor Virus Infections/metabolism
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- Alexander Y Tsygankov
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Park J, Seo T, Jung J, Choe J. Herpesvirus saimiri STP A11 protein interacts with STAT3 and stimulates its transcriptional activity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 320:279-85. [PMID: 15207733 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.05.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2004] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is an oncogenic gamma-2 herpesvirus that causes lymphoma in New World primates. HVS can be further divided into subgroups A, B, and C, based on sequence divergence. Saimiri transforming protein (STP) is coded for by the first open reading frame at the left end of the HVS genome and is responsible for its oncogenic potential. Here we show that STP A11 binds to signal transducers and activators of transcription 3 (STAT3), stimulates STAT3 phosphorylation, and activates STAT3-dependent transcription. STP A11 recruited c-Src kinase to phosphorylate STAT3 protein, and co-expression of STP A11 with c-Src dramatically increased STAT3 phosphorylation. We found that the amino terminal domain of STP A11 is required for both STAT3 interaction and activation, and that physical interaction is required for STAT3 activation.
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- Junsoo Park
- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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The saimiri transforming protein (STP) oncogene of Herpesvirus saimiri subgroup A strain 11 (STP-A11) is not required for viral replication but is required for lymphoid cell immortalization in culture and lymphoma induction in primates. We previously showed that STP-A11 interacts with cellular Src kinase through its SH2 binding motif and that this interaction elicits Src signal transduction. Here we demonstrate that STP-A11 interacts with signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) independently of Src association and that the amino-terminal short proline-rich motif of STP-A11 and the central linker region of Stat3 are necessary for their interaction. STP-A11 formed a triple complex with Src kinase and Stat3 where Src kinase phosphorylated Stat3, resulting in the nuclear localization and transcriptional activation of Stat3. Consequently, the constitutively active Stat3 induced by STP-A11 elicited cellular signal transduction, which ultimately induced cell survival and proliferation upon serum deprivation. Furthermore, this activity was strongly correlated with the induction of Fos, cyclin D1, and Bcl-XL expression. These results demonstrate that STP-A11 independently targets two important cellular signaling molecules, Src and Stat3, and that these proteins cooperate efficiently to induce STP-A11-mediated transformation.
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- Young-Hwa Chung
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Tumor Virology Division, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 1 Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA 01772-9102, USA
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Reiss C, Niedobitek G, Hör S, Lisner R, Friedrich U, Bodemer W, Biesinger B. Peripheral T-cell lymphoma in herpesvirus saimiri-infected tamarins: tumor cell lines reveal subgroup-specific differences. Virology 2002; 294:31-46. [PMID: 11886263 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Efficiency of lymphoma induction by herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) isolates correlates with the genetically defined viral subgroups A, B, and C. To compare subgroup-specific effects, highly susceptible tamarins were infected with HVS strain A-11, B-SMHI, or C-488. All animals developed T-cell lymphomas indistinguishable with respect to clinical, pathological, and virological parameters. Ex vivo T-cell lines were established readily from the HVS C-488 animal, less efficiently in the presence of HVS A-11, and from only a single HVS B-SMHI sample. These cultivated cells revealed strain-specific biochemical characteristics. HVS A-11 strongly induced the expression of tyrosine kinase Lyn. HVS C-488 led to the activation of STAT3, which is most likely linked to the association of virus-encoded Tip with tyrosine kinase Lck. The lack of these activities in HVS B-SMHI-transformed cells may correlate with the reduced oncogenic phenotype of this virus in species other than tamarins.
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- Christine Reiss
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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During the co-evolution of viruses with their vertebrate hosts, the DNA viruses have acquired an impressive array of immunomodulatory genes to combat host immune responses and their hosts have developed a sophisticated immune system to contain virus infections. In order to replicate, the viruses have evolved mechanisms to inhibit key host anti-virus responses that include apoptosis, interferon production, chemokine production, inflammatory cytokine production, and the activity of cytotoxic T-cells, natural killer cells and antibody. In addition, some of the viruses encode cytokine or chemokine homologues that recruit or expand cell numbers for infection or that subvert the host cellular response from a protective response to a benign one. The specificity of the viral immunomodulatory molecules reflects the life cycle and the pathogenesis of the viruses. Herpesviruses achieve latency in host cells by inducing cell survival and protecting infected cells from immune recognition. This involves interference with cell signal transduction pathways. Many of the viral immunomodulatory proteins are homologues of host proteins that appear to have been pirated from the host and reassorted in the virus genomes. Some of these have unique functions and indicate novel or important aspects of both viral pathogenesis and host immunity to viruses. The specific example of orf virus infection of sheep is described.
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- D M Haig
- Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Penicuik, Scotland, UK.
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Herpesvirus saimiri (saimiriine herpesvirus 2) is the classical prototype of the gamma(2)-herpesviruses or rhadinoviruses, which also contains a human member, the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. The T-lymphotropic Herpesvirus saimiri establishes specific replicative and persistent conditions in different primate host species. Virtually all squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) are persistently infected with this virus. In its natural host, the virus does not cause disease, whereas it induces fatal acute T-cell lymphoma in other monkey species after experimental infection. The virus can be isolated by cocultivation of permissive epithelial cells with peripheral blood cells from naturally infected squirrel monkeys and from susceptible New World monkeys during the virus-induced disease. Tumour-derived and in vitro-transformed T-cell lines from New World monkeys release virus particles. Herpesvirus ateles is a closely related virus of spider monkeys (Ateles spp.) and has similar pathogenic properties to Herpesvirus saimiri in other New World primate species. Similar to other rhadinoviruses, the genome of Herpesvirus saimiri harbours a series of virus genes with pronounced homology to cellular counterparts including a D-type cyclin, a G-protein-coupled receptor, an interleukin-17, a superantigen homologue, and several inhibitors of the complement cascade and of different apoptosis pathways. Preserved function has been demonstrated for most of the homologues of cellular proteins. These viral functions are mostly dispensable for the transforming and pathogenic capability of the virus. However, they are considered relevant for the apathogenic persistence of Herpesvirus saimiri in its natural host. A terminal region of the non-repetitive coding part of the virus genome is essential for pathogenicity and T-cell transformation. Based on the pathogenic phenotypes and the different alleles of this variable region, the virus strains have been assigned to three subgroups, termed A, B and C. In the highly oncogenic subgroup C strains, the two virus genes stpC and tip are transcribed from one bicistronic mRNA and are essential for transformation and leukaemia induction. stpC fulfils the typical criteria of an oncogene; its product interacts with Ras and tumour necrosis factor-associated factors and induces mitogen-activated protein kinase and nuclear factor kappa B activation. Tip interacts with the RNA transport factor Tap, with signal transduction and activation of transcription factors, and with the T-cellular tyrosine kinase Lck, which is activated by this interaction and phosphorylates Tip as a substrate. It is of particular interest that certain subgroup C virus strains such as C488 are capable of transforming human T lymphocytes to stable growth in culture. The transformed human T cells harbour multiple copies of the viral genome in the form of stable, non-integrated episomes. The cells express only a few virus genes and do not produce virus particles. The transformed cells maintain the antigen specificity and many other essential functions of their parental T-cell clones. Based on the preserved functional phenotype of the transformed T cells, Herpesvirus saimiri provides useful tools for T-cell immunology, for gene transfer and possibly also for experimental adoptive immunotherapy.
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- H Fickenscher
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 4, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany.
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New World primates develop T-cell lymphomas on infection with Herpesvirus saimiri. To investigate the oncogenic potential of the Tip gene of Herpesvirus saimiri strain C488, we tried to establish transgenic mice that should express Tip under control of a constitutive promoter. Although transgene-positive embryos were found, lines could not be established. However, using a system in which the transgene has to be activated by a Cre recombinase-mediated deletion, we were able to obtain several Tip transgenic lines. At high expression levels, the mice developed T-cell lymphomas. Thus, Tip can induce lymphomas and is therefore very likely responsible for the oncogenicity of Herpesvirus saimiri.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Embryonic and Fetal Development/genetics
- Genes, Viral
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine/genetics
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine/pathogenicity
- Lymphocyte Specific Protein Tyrosine Kinase p56(lck)/metabolism
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/mortality
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/virology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic/genetics
- Mice, Transgenic/virology
- Phosphoproteins/biosynthesis
- Phosphoproteins/genetics
- Phosphoproteins/metabolism
- Phosphoproteins/physiology
- Survival Analysis
- Viral Proteins/biosynthesis
- Viral Proteins/genetics
- Viral Proteins/metabolism
- Viral Proteins/physiology
- Viral Structural Proteins/genetics
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- L E Wehner
- Institut für Molekularbiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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Subgroup B isolates of Herpesvirus saimiri are less efficient in T lymphocyte transformation when compared with subgroups A or C. Here it is shown that subgroup B strain SMHI encodes a protein, StpB, at a position equivalent to those of the ORFs for the saimiri transforming proteins (Stp) of subgroups A and C. StpB shares little similarity with StpA or StpC, but interacts with the SH2 domain of cellular Src, as does StpA. Thus, factors other than c-Src binding determine the efficiency of primary T cell transformation by Herpesvirus saimiri.
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- Simon Hör
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schloßgarten 4, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany1
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- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schloßgarten 4, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany1
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- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schloßgarten 4, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany1
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- Institute for Radiobiology at the Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland2
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- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schloßgarten 4, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany1
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Several of the gamma-herpesviruses are known to have cellular transforming and oncogenic properties. The genomes of eight distinct gamma-herpesviruses have been sequenced, and the resulting database of information has enabled the identification of genetic similarities and differences between evolutionarily closely related and distant viruses of the subfamily and between the gamma-herpesviruses and other members of the herpesvirus family. The recognition of coincident loci of genetic divergence between individual gamma-herpesviruses and the identification of novel genes and cellular gene homologues in these genomic regions has delineated a subset of genes that are likely to contribute to the unique biological properties of these viruses. These genes, together with gamma-herpesvirus conserved genes not found in viruses outside the family, might be responsible for virus specific pathogenicity and pathogenic effects, such as viral associated neoplasia, characteristic of the subfamily. The presence of the gamma-herpesvirus major divergent genomic loci and the apparent increased mutational frequencies of homologous genes (where they occur) within these regions, indicates that these loci possess particular features that drive genetic divergence. Whatever the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, it potentially provides the basis for the relatively rapid adaptation and evolution of gamma-herpesviruses and the diversity of biological and pathogenic properties.
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- J Nicholas
- Department of Oncology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA.
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Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is divided into three subgroups, A, B, and C, based on sequence divergence at the left end of genomic DNA in which the saimiri transforming protein (STP) resides. Subgroup A and C strains transform primary common marmoset lymphocytes to interleukin-2-independent growth, whereas subgroup B strains do not. To investigate the nononcogenic phenotype of the subgroup B viruses, STP genes from seven subgroup B virus isolates were cloned and sequenced. Consistent with the lack of oncogenic activity of HVS subgroup B viruses, STP-B was deficient for transforming activity in rodent fibroblast cells. Sequence comparison reveals that STP-B lacks the signal-transducing modules found in STP proteins of the other subgroups, collagen repeats and an authentic SH2 binding motif. Substitution mutations demonstrated that the lack of collagen repeats but not an SH2 binding motif contributed to the nontransforming phenotype of STP-B. Introduction of the collagen repeat sequence induced oligomerization of STP-B, resulting in activation of NF-kappaB activity and deregulation of cell growth control. These results demonstrate that the collagen repeat sequence is a determinant of the degree of HVS STP transforming activity.
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- J K Choi
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Division of Tumor Virology, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102, USA
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Isakov N, Biesinger B. Lck protein tyrosine kinase is a key regulator of T-cell activation and a target for signal intervention by Herpesvirus saimiri and other viral gene products. Eur J Biochem 2000; 267:3413-21. [PMID: 10848956 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01412.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are critically involved in signaling pathways that regulate cell growth, differentiation, activation, and transformation. It is not surprising, therefore, that viruses acquire effector molecules targeting these kinases to ensure their own replication and/or persistence. This review summarizes our current knowledge on Lck, a member of the Src family of PTK, and its viral interaction partners. Lck plays a key role in T lymphocyte activation and differentiation. It is associated with a variety of cell surface receptors and is critical for signal transduction from the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR). Consequently, Lck is targeted by regulatory proteins of T-lymphotropic viruses, especially by the Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) tyrosine kinase interacting protein (Tip). This oncoprotein physically interacts with Lck in HVS transformed T cells and has an impact on its catalytic activity. However, while Tip inhibits Lck activity in stably expressing cell lines, opposite effects were observed in several in vitro systems. At least in part, this complex situation may be related to the bipartite nature of the interaction surface of the two proteins. Studies on the interrelationships between Lck and its viral partners contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms of T-cell growth regulation, in general, and of viral pathogenicity in particular. In addition, understanding the regulation of Lck activity by viral proteins may serve as a basis for the development of new drugs capable of modifying Lck activity in different pathological situations.
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- N Isakov
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Cancer Research Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
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Thurau M, Whitehouse A, Wittmann S, Meredith D, Fickenscher H. Distinct transcriptional and functional properties of the R transactivator gene orf50 of the transforming herpesvirus saimiri strain C488. Virology 2000; 268:167-77. [PMID: 10683339 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.0167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The transformation-associated region of herpesvirus saimiri strains is variable, whereas other parts of the virus genome are highly conserved. However, we observed considerable interstrain sequence divergence of the early viral regulatory orf50 gene, which encodes the R transactivator, a homolog of Epstein-Barr virus BRLF1. The orf50 gene of strain C488 was transcribed at low abundance during lytic infection, whereas antisense transcripts were simultaneously expressed at high levels. A spliced variant, orf50a, was detectable by RT-PCR and RNase protection assays in stimulated C488-transformed, nonpermissive human T cells. In contrast to strain A11, the short, unspliced orf50b form of C488 displayed complete transactivation capability on the orf6 and orf57 promoters. In summary, there are unexpected structural and functional differences between the orf50 genes of herpesvirus saimiri strains, which differ in their capability to transform human T lymphocytes.
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- M Thurau
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 4, Erlangen, D-91054, Germany
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This review describes a mechanism of viral transformation involving activation of cellular signaling pathways. We focus on four viral oncoproteins: the E5 protein of bovine papillomavirus, which activates the platelet-derived growth factor beta receptor; gp55 of spleen focus forming virus, which activates the erythropoietin receptor; polyoma virus middle T antigen, which resembles an activated receptor tyrosine kinase; and LMP-1 of Epstein-Barr virus, which mimics an activated tumor necrosis factor receptor. These examples indicate that diverse viruses induce cell transformation by activating cellular signal transduction pathways. Study of this mechanism of viral transformation will provide new insights into viral tumorigenesis and cellular signal transduction.
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- D DiMaio
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.
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- B Damania
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102, USA
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Herpesvirus ateles is an agent indigenous to spider monkeys (Ateles spp.) and causes fulminant lymphomas in various New World primates. Structural and genetic relatedness led to the classification of this virus as a member of the genus Rhadinovirus. It is most closely related to Herpesvirus saimiri. The 108,409-bp light DNA segment of the herpesvirus ateles strain 73 genome has two genes for U-RNA-like transcripts and 73 open reading frames, of which at least 6 show significant homologies to cellular genes (encoding complement control proteins, apoptosis-regulatory proteins, D-type cyclins, interleukin-8 receptors, and enzymes involved in nucleotide metabolism). The left terminal region of the light DNA segment bears the putative rhadinovirus oncogene tio.
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- J C Albrecht
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
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Lurain NS, Kapell KS, Huang DD, Short JA, Paintsil J, Winkfield E, Benedict CA, Ware CF, Bremer JW. Human cytomegalovirus UL144 open reading frame: sequence hypervariability in low-passage clinical isolates. J Virol 1999; 73:10040-50. [PMID: 10559318 PMCID: PMC113055 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.12.10040-10050.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infects a number of organs and cell types in vivo, leading to the hypothesis that HCMV disease and tissue tropism may be related to specific sequence variants. A potential component of HCMV variant strains is the UL144 open reading frame (ORF), which encodes a homologue of the herpesvirus entry mediator, HveA, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily. Sequence analysis of the UL144 ORF in 45 low-passage clinical isolates demonstrated significant strain-specific variability. In individual isolates, nucleotide substitutions occur at up to 21% of the 531 positions, resulting in approximately the same percentage of substitutions in the predicted 176-amino-acid sequence. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the nucleotide and amino acid sequences diverge into three major groups. For genotypic comparison, the known hypervariable region encompassing the proteolytic cleavage site of the glycoprotein B (gB) gene was also sequenced. All of the isolates could be typed according to the four known gB groups; however, the gB and UL144 sequence groups appeared to be phylogenetically unlinked. The predicted UL144 product homology with tumor necrosis factor receptor family members, along with the unexpectedly high level of sequence variability of the UL144 ORF, suggests that the predicted product may play a role in HCMV infectivity and subsequent host disease.
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- N S Lurain
- Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush Medical College, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
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Poole LJ, Zong JC, Ciufo DM, Alcendor DJ, Cannon JS, Ambinder R, Orenstein JM, Reitz MS, Hayward GS. Comparison of genetic variability at multiple loci across the genomes of the major subtypes of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus reveals evidence for recombination and for two distinct types of open reading frame K15 alleles at the right-hand end. J Virol 1999; 73:6646-60. [PMID: 10400762 PMCID: PMC112749 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.8.6646-6660.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/1999] [Accepted: 05/10/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) DNA is found consistently in nearly all classical, endemic, transplant, and AIDS-associated KS lesions, as well as in several AIDS-associated lymphomas. We have previously sequenced the genes for the highly variable open reading frame K1 (ORF-K1) protein from more than 60 different HHV8 samples and demonstrated that they display up to 30% amino acid variability and cluster into four very distinct evolutionary subgroups (the A, B, C, and D subtypes) that correlate with the major migrationary diasporas of modern humans. Here we have extended this type of analysis to six other loci across the HHV8 genome to further evaluate overall genotype patterns and the potential for chimeric genomes. Comparison of the relatively conserved ORF26, T0.7/K12, and ORF75 gene regions at map positions 0. 35, 0.85, and 0.96 revealed typical ORF-K1-linked subtype patterns, except that between 20 and 30% of the genomes analyzed proved to be either intertypic or intratypic mosaics. In addition, a 2,500-bp region found at the extreme right-hand side of the unique segment in 45 HHV8 genomes proved to be highly diverged from the 3,500-bp sequence found at this position in the other 18 HHV8 genomes examined. Furthermore, these previously uncharacterized "orphan" region sequences proved to encompass multiexon latent-state mRNAs encoding two highly diverged alleles of the novel ORF-K15 protein. The predominant (P) and minor (M) forms of HHV8 ORF-K15 are structurally related integral membrane proteins that have only 33% overall amino acid identity to one another but retain conserved likely tyrosine kinase signaling motifs and may be distant evolutionary relatives of the LMP2 latency protein of Epstein-Barr virus. The M allele of ORF-K15 is also physically linked to a distinctive M subtype of the adjacent ORF75 gene locus, and in some cases, this linkage extends as far back as the T0.7 locus also. Overall, the results suggest that an original recombination event with a related primate virus from an unknown source introduced exogenous right-hand side ORF-K15(M) sequences into an ancient M form of HHV8, followed by eventual acquisition into the subtype C lineage of the modern P-form of the HHV8 genome and subsequent additional, more recent transfers by homologous recombination events into several subtype A and B lineages as well.
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- L J Poole
- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Albrecht JC, Friedrich U, Kardinal C, Koehn J, Fleckenstein B, Feller SM, Biesinger B. Herpesvirus ateles gene product Tio interacts with nonreceptor protein tyrosine kinases. J Virol 1999; 73:4631-9. [PMID: 10233922 PMCID: PMC112504 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.6.4631-4639.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Herpesvirus ateles is a gamma-2-herpesvirus which naturally infects spider monkeys (Ateles spp.) and causes malignant lymphoproliferative disorders in various other New World primates. The genomic sequence of herpesvirus ateles strain 73 revealed a close relationship to herpesvirus saimiri, with a high degree of variability within the left terminus of the coding region. A spliced mRNA transcribed from this region was detected in New World monkey T-cell lines transformed by herpesvirus ateles in vitro or derived from T cells of infected Saguinus oedipus. The encoded viral protein, termed Tio, shows restricted homology to the oncoprotein StpC and to the tyrosine kinase-interacting protein Tip, two gene products responsible for the T-cell-transforming and oncogenic phenotype of herpesvirus saimiri group C strains. Tio was detectable in lysates of the transformed T lymphocytes. Dimer formation was observed after expression of recombinant Tio. After cotransfection, Tio was phosphorylated in vivo by the protein tyrosine kinases Lck and Src and less efficiently by Fyn. Stable complexes of these Src family kinases with the viral protein were detected in lysates of the transfected cells. Binding analyses indicated a direct interaction of Tio with the SH3 domains of Lyn, Hck, Lck, Src, Fyn, and Yes. In addition, tyrosine-phosphorylated Tio bound to the SH2 domains of Lck, Src, or Fyn. Thus, herpesvirus ateles-encoded Tio may contribute to viral T-cell transformation by influencing the function of Src family kinases.
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- J C Albrecht
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.
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Nucleotide sequence analysis at five distinct loci across the 140, 000 bp genomes of more than 60 KSHV samples from KS and PEL tumors from North America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific revealed that they cluster into four major subtypes (A, B, C and D) that have close associations with the geographic and ethnic background of the patients. In particular, the ORF-K1 protein subtypes encoded at the extreme LHS of the genome display up to 30% amino acid variability resulting from 85% non-synonymous nucleotide substitution rates. In addition, two alternative highly diverged forms of the complex spliced ORF-K15 gene (P or M) map at the extreme RHS of the genome and are essentially unlinked to the ORF-K1 genotypes. We conclude that: (1) KSHV is an ancient human virus with several major subtypes that reflect the migrationary divergence of modern human populations over the past 35,000-60,000 years; (2) the novel immunoglobulin receptor-like signal transducing protein ORF-K1 is subject to unusually strong biological selective pressures; and (3) a minority of KSHV genomes have undergone recombination events with a related virus producing two different alleles of the ORF-K15 latency membrane protein.
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- G S Hayward
- Molecular Virology Laboratories, Departments of Oncology, and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe Street, WBSB 317, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) causes T-lymphoproliferative dis-$borders in several New World and Old World primate species and in certain rabbits.In vitro infection leads to permanent growth of primary T cells of primate and human origins. The transformation-relevant proteins of HVS interact with cellular proto-oncoproteins which results in cell growth transformation. In addition, virus-encoded cellular homologues may contribute to transformation or persistence of HVS by altering cellular signal transduction and deregulating cell growth control. Because of the presence of a permissive cell culture system and in vitro Land in vivo transformation assays, HVS provides a unique opportunity to investigate the mechanisms of cancer induction by oncogenic herpesviruses.
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- J U Jung
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, 1 Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA 01772-9102, USA
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Lee H, Choi JK, Li M, Kaye K, Kieff E, Jung JU. Role of cellular tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factors in NF-kappaB activation and lymphocyte transformation by herpesvirus Saimiri STP. J Virol 1999; 73:3913-9. [PMID: 10196286 PMCID: PMC104169 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.5.3913-3919.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The STP oncoproteins of the herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) subgroup A strain 11 and subgroup C strain 488 are now found to be stably associated with tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor (TRAF) 1, 2, or 3. Mutational analyses identified residues of PXQXT/S in STP-A11 as critical for TRAF association. In addition, a somewhat divergent region of STP-C488 is critical for TRAF association. Mutational analysis also revealed that STP-C488 induced NF-kappaB activation that was correlated with its ability to associate with TRAFs. The HVS STP-C488 P10-->R mutant was deficient in human T-lymphocyte transformation to interleukin-2-independent growth but showed wild-type phenotype for marmoset T-lymphocyte transformation in vitro and in vivo. The STP-C488 P10-->R mutant was also defective in Rat-1 fibroblast transformation, and fibroblast cell transformation was blocked by a TRAF2 dominant-negative mutant. These data implicate TRAFs in STP-C488-mediated transformation of human lymphocytes and rodent fibroblasts. Other factors are implicated in immortalization of common marmoset T lymphocytes and may also be critical in the transformation of human lymphocytes and rodent fibroblasts.
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- H Lee
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102, USA
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Zong JC, Ciufo DM, Alcendor DJ, Wan X, Nicholas J, Browning PJ, Rady PL, Tyring SK, Orenstein JM, Rabkin CS, Su IJ, Powell KF, Croxson M, Foreman KE, Nickoloff BJ, Alkan S, Hayward GS. High-level variability in the ORF-K1 membrane protein gene at the left end of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus genome defines four major virus subtypes and multiple variants or clades in different human populations. J Virol 1999; 73:4156-70. [PMID: 10196312 PMCID: PMC104195 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.5.4156-4170.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Infection with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) is common in certain parts of Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, but is rare elsewhere, except in AIDS patients. Nevertheless, HHV8 DNA is found consistently in nearly all classical, endemic, transplant and AIDS-associated KS lesions as well as in some rare AIDS-associated lymphomas. The concept that HHV8 genomes fall into several distinct subgroups has been confirmed and refined by PCR DNA sequence analysis of the ORF-K1 gene encoding a highly variable glycoprotein related to the immunoglobulin receptor family that maps at the extreme left-hand end of the HHV-8 genome. Among more than 60 different tumor samples from the United States, central Africa, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and New Zealand, amino acid substitutions were found at a total of 62% of the 289 amino acid positions. These variations defined four major subtypes and 13 distinct variants or clades similar to those found for the HIV ENV protein. The B and D subtype ORF-K1 proteins differ from the A and C subtypes by 30 and 24%, respectively, whereas A and C differ from each other by 15%. In all cases tested, multiple samples from the same patient were identical. Examples of the B subtype were found almost exclusively in KS patients from Africa or of African heritage, whereas the rare D subtypes were found only in KS patients of Pacific Island heritage. In contrast, C subtypes were found predominantly in classic KS and in iatrogenic and AIDS KS in the Middle East and Asia, whereas U.S. AIDS KS samples were primarily A1, A4, and C3 variants. We conclude that this unusually high diversity, in which 85% of the nucleotide changes lead to amino acid changes, reflects some unknown powerful biological selection process that has been acting preferentially on this early lytic cycle membrane signalling protein. Two distinct levels of ORF-K1 variability are recognizable. Subtype-specific variability indicative of long-term evolutionary divergence is both spread throughout the protein as well as concentrated within two 40-amino-acid extracellular domain variable regions (VR1 and VR2), whereas intratypic variability localizes predominantly within a single 25-amino-acid hypervariable Cys bridge loop and apparently represents much more recent changes that have occurred even within specific clades. In contrast, numerous extracellular domain glycosylation sites and Cys bridge residues as well as the ITAM motif in the cytoplasmic domain are fully conserved. Overall, we suggest that rather than being a newly acquired human pathogen, HHV8 is an ancient human virus that is preferentially transmitted in a familial fashion and is difficult to transmit horizontally in the absence of immunosuppression. The division into the four major HHV8 subgroups is probably the result of isolation and founder effects associated with the history of migration of modern human populations out of Africa over the past 35,000 to 60,000 years.
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- J C Zong
- Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
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Muralidhar S, Pumfery AM, Hassani M, Sadaie MR, Kishishita M, Brady JN, Doniger J, Medveczky P, Rosenthal LJ. Identification of kaposin (open reading frame K12) as a human herpesvirus 8 (Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus) transforming gene. J Virol 1998; 72:4980-8. [PMID: 9573267 PMCID: PMC110060 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.6.4980-4988.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The recently identified human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8, or Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus) has been implicated in the etiology of both Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and primary effusion (body cavity-based) lymphoma (PEL) (Y. Chang et al., Science 266:1865-1869, 1994; P. S. Moore et al., J. Virol. 70:549-558, 1996). An important feature of the association of HHV-8 with these malignancies is the expression of an abundant, latency-associated 0.7-kb transcript, T0. 7 (W. Zhong et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:6641-6646, 1996). T0.7 is found in all stages in nearly all KS tumors of different epidemiologic origin, including AIDS-associated, African endemic, and classical KS (K. A. Staskus et al., J. Virol. 71:715-719, 1997), as well as in a body cavity-based lymphoma-derived cell line, BCBL-1, that is latently infected with HHV-8 (R. Renne et al., Nat. Med. 2:342-346, 1996). T0.7 encodes a unique HHV-8 open reading frame, K12, also known as kaposin. In this study, we report that the kaposin gene induced tumorigenic transformation. Constructs with kaposin expressed either from its endogenous promoter or from a heterologous promoter induced focal transformation upon transfection into Rat-3 cells. All transformed Rat-3 cell lines containing kaposin sequences produced high-grade, highly vascular, undifferentiated sarcomas upon subcutaneous injection of athymic nu/nu mice. Tumor-derived cell lines expressed kaposin mRNA, suggesting a role in the maintenance of the transformed phenotype. Furthermore, kaposin protein was detected in transformed and tumor-derived cells by immunofluorescence and localized to the cytoplasm. More importantly, expression of kaposin protein was also detected in the PEL cell lines BCBL-1 and KS-1. These findings demonstrate the oncogenic potential of kaposin and suggest its possible role in the development of KS and other HHV-8-associated malignancies.
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- S Muralidhar
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 20007, USA
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The actin-filament-associated protein (AFAP-1 10) forms a stable complex with activated variants of the Pp60c-src (Src) non-receptor tyrosine kinase through SH2 and SH3 interactions. In this report, site-directed mutagenesis and a transient expression system that permits co-expression of activated pp60c-src (Src527F) and AFAP-110 in Cos-1 cells were used to identify the SH2-binding motif in AFAP-110. Four tyrosine residues, two in the amino terminus (Y93 and Y94) and two in the carboxy terminus (Y451 and Y453), were mutated to phenylalanine, significantly reducing overall steady-state levels of tyrosine phosphorylation and preventing Src527F from forming a stable complex with AFAP-110. These data indicate that the major sites for tyrosine phosphorylation are among these four tyrosine residues and that one or more of these tyrosines may function as an SH2-binding motif. Mutagenesis of just two tyrosines in either the amino terminus (Y93/Y94) or in the carboxy terminus (Y451/Y453) to phenylalanine had only a modest effect on steady-state levels of tyrosine phosphorylation and was not sufficient to abrogate stable-complex formation. These data suggest that Src527F can form a stable complex with AFAP-110 through either of two independently functional SH2-binding motifs. Triple-tyrosine mutation demonstrated that Y93 was not significantly phosphorylated on tyrosine and would not facilitate stable complex formation, whereas Y94, Y451, and Y453 could be phosphorylated on tyrosine and would facilitate stable-complex formation. We hypothesize that Src527F and AFAP-110 interact through a multistep binding mechanism that may either extend interactions between Src527F and actin filaments or permit reorientation of Src527F on AFAP-110, which could facilitate the presentation of Src527F toward other signaling molecules.
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- A C Guappone
- Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506-9300, USA
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STP-C488 (STP of herpesvirus saimiri [HVS] group C strain 488 [C488]) is the only virus-encoded protein found to associate with cellular ras and activate ras signal transduction pathways. To investigate an important role for ras signal transduction in STP-dependent growth transformation, we constructed recombinant strains of HVS C488 in which the STP-C488 oncogene was replaced with cellular normal ras (c-ras) or viral oncogenic ras (v-ras). Recombinant HVS deltaSTP/v-ras immortalized primary common marmoset T lymphocytes to interleukin-2-independent growth as efficiently as wild-type HVS C488 (wt HVS), while recombinant HVS deltaSTP/c-ras did so with low efficiency. Whereas wt HVS immortalized CD4- CD8+ single-positive T lymphocytes, HVS deltaSTP/c-ras- and HVS deltaSTP/v-ras-immortalized cells were principally CD4+ CD8+ double-positive T lymphocytes. In addition, HVS deltaSTP/v-ras-immortalized T cells showed a high level of ras expression and exhibited an adherent macrophage-like morphology. These phenotypes were likely caused by the drastic activation of AP-1 transcriptional factor activity. Finally, HVS deltaSTP/v-ras and HVS deltaSTP/c-ras each induced lymphoma in one of two common marmosets, although onset of disease was more rapid with the v-ras virus. These results demonstrate that ras can substitute for the STP oncogene of HVS C488 to allow immortalized growth of primary lymphoid cells and that an activated form of ras does so more efficiently than the normal cellular form of ras.
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- J Guo
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102, USA
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Lee H, Veazey R, Williams K, Li M, Guo J, Neipel F, Fleckenstein B, Lackner A, Desrosiers RC, Jung JU. Deregulation of cell growth by the K1 gene of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Nat Med 1998; 4:435-40. [PMID: 9546789 DOI: 10.1038/nm0498-435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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At a position equivalent to the gene encoding the saimiri transforming protein (STP) of herpesvirus saimiri (HVS), Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) contains a distinct open reading frame called K1. Although KSHV and HVS are related members of the rhadinovirus subgroup of gamma herpesviruses, K1 and STP exhibit no similarity in amino acid sequence or in structural organization. Since STP is required for the oncogenic potential of HVS, we investigated the functional consequence of K1 expression. Expression of the K1 gene in rodent fibroblasts produced morphologic changes and focus formation indicative of transformation. A recombinant herpesvirus in which the STP oncogene of HVS was replaced with K1, immortalized primary T lymphocytes to IL-2 independent growth and induced lymphoma in common marmosets. These results demonstrate the transforming potential of the K1 gene of KSHV.
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MESH Headings
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/complications
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- COS Cells
- Cell Line
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Genes, Viral
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine/genetics
- Herpesvirus 2, Saimiriine/pathogenicity
- Herpesvirus 8, Human/genetics
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oncogene Proteins, Viral/biosynthesis
- Oncogene Proteins, Viral/chemistry
- Oncogene Proteins, Viral/genetics
- Open Reading Frames
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Rats
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/etiology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/virology
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Transfection
- Viral Proteins/biosynthesis
- Viral Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Proteins/genetics
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- H Lee
- New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, MA 01772-9102, USA
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Abstract
Mutant forms of herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) subgroup C strain 488 with deletions in either STP-C488 or Tip were constructed. The transforming potentials of the HVS mutants were tested in cell culture and in common marmosets. Parental HVS subgroup C strain 488 immortalized common marmoset T lymphocytes in vitro to interleukin-2-independent growth, but neither of the deletion mutants produced such growth transformation. Wild-type HVS produced fatal lymphoma within 19 to 20 days of experimental infection of common marmosets, while HVS deltaSTP-C488 and HVS deltaTip were nononcogenic. Virus was repeatedly isolated from the peripheral blood of marmosets infected with mutant virus for more than 5 months. These results demonstrate that STP-C488 and Tip are not required for replication or persistence, but each is essential for transformation in cell culture and for lymphoma induction in common marmosets.
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Affiliation(s)
- S M Duboise
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102, USA
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