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J Virol. 1990 June; 64(6): 2530-2536

The level of c-fgr RNA is increased by EBNA-2, an Epstein-Barr virus gene required for B-cell immortalization.

J C Knutson

McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706.

ABSTRACT

The efficient immortalization of primary resting human B lymphocytes by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) requires several viral genes and presumably the altered expression of an unknown number of cellular genes as well. In this paper, I show that infection of primary human B cells with EBV increased the transcript level of the proto-oncogene, c-fgr, 10-fold. This effect on the level of c-fgr transcripts in B cells was not secondary to blast formation, because levels of c-fgr RNA were also increased 10-fold in two proliferating EBV-negative Burkitt's lymphoma-derived cell lines, Ramos and BJAB, 2 days after infection with EBV. Two lines of evidence indicated that EBV nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA-2) mediates this increase in c-fgr RNA levels: acute infection of BJAB and Ramos cells by a mutant strain of EBV that lacked the EBNA-2 open reading frame, P3HR1, did not affect c-fgr RNA levels; and cell lines constitutively expressing only the EBNA-2 gene of EBV had increased levels of c-fgr RNA relative to those in the parental cell lines. Since P3HR1, a nonimmortalizing strain of EBV, failed to affect c-fgr RNA levels and since a viral gene required for B-cell immortalization was responsible for the induction of c-fgr, the data indicate a possible role of c-fgr expression in B-lymphocyte immortalization by EBV and a mechanism by which EBNA-2 contributes to the immortalizing activity of EBV.

J Virol. 1990 June; 64(6): 2530-2536




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