Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Membrane Protein 1 (LMP-1) Half-Life in Epithelial Cells Is Down-Regulated by Lytic LMP-1

AUTOR(ES)

Pandya, Jyotsna

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

This study examined the effect of naturally occurring Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) gene sequence variation on the LMP-1 half-life in epithelial cells. The LMP-1 half-life was not influenced by sequence variation in amino acids 250 to 307 or amino acids 343 to 352. The LMP-1 half-life was short when the amino acid encoded at position 129 was methionine, the initiation codon product of lytic LMP-1 (lyLMP-1). The mutation of amino acid 129 to isoleucine greatly increased the LMP-1 half-life. Expression of lyLMP-1 in trans down-regulated the LMP-1 half-life in a dose-dependent manner and restored a short-half-life phenotype to the mutated LMP-1 construct lacking the cis ability to express lyLMP-1. This observed dominant negative effect of lyLMP-1 expression on the LMP-1 half-life in epithelial cells in vitro may have implications for EBV epithelial oncogenesis in vivo.

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