The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) BZLF1 immediate-early gene product differentially affects latent versus productive EBV promoters.
AUTOR(ES)
Kenney, S
RESUMO
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) BZLF1 gene product is thought to mediate the disruption of latent EBV infection. We have examined the regulatory effects of BZLF1 by studying its transactivating effects on seven different EBV promoters. We find that whereas the BZLF1 gene product increases the activity of the two early promoters, BMLF1 and BMRF1, it decreases the activity of three latent promoters (the BamHI-C and BamHI-W Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen promoters and the latent membrane protein promoter). The BZLF1-induced changes in promoter-directed chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activity occur in EBV-negative as well as EBV-positive cell lines and are accompanied by a similar change in chloramphenicol acetyltransferase mRNA. Deletion analysis of the BamHI Z fragment indicates that in a portion of the amino-terminal half of the BZLF1 gene product (amino acids 24 to 86) is not essential for positive transactivating effects but is required for down-regulating effects. Thus, different domains of the same EBV immediate-early gene product can either increase the function of EBV promoters active in productive infection or decrease the function of key promoters active in latent infection.
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