Direct and Indirect Regulation of Cytokine and Cell Cycle Proteins by EBNA-2 during Epstein-Barr Virus Infection
AUTOR(ES)
Spender, Lindsay C.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
We have studied the pathways of regulation of cytokine and cell cycle control proteins during infection of human B lymphocytes by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Among 30 cytokine RNAs analyzed by the RNase protection assay, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, lymphotoxin (LT), and LTβ were found to be regulated within 20 h of EBV infection of primary B cells. Similar results were obtained using the estrogen-regulated EBNA-2 cell line EREB2.5, in which RNAs for LT and TNF-α were induced within 6 h of activation of EBNA-2. Expression of Notch also caused an induction of TNF-α RNA. The induction of TNF-α RNA by EBNA-2 was indirect, and constitutive expression of either LMP-1 or c-myc proteins did not substitute for EBNA-2 in induction of TNF-α RNA. Cyclin D2 is also an indirect target of EBNA-2-mediated transactivation. EBNA-2 was found to activate the cyclin D2 promoter in a transient-transfection assay. A mutant of EBNA-2 that does not bind RBP-Jκ retained some activity in this assay, and activation did not depend on the presence of B-cell-specific factors. Deletion analysis of the cyclin D2 promoter revealed that removal of sequences containing E-box c-myc consensus DNA binding sequences did not reduce EBNA-2-mediated activation of the cyclin D2 promoter in the transient-transfection assay. The results indicate that cytokines are an early target of EBNA-2 and that EBNA-2 can regulate cyclin D2 transcription in EBV-infected cells by mechanisms additional to the c-myc pathway.
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