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J Virol, February 1998, p. 919-925, Vol. 72, No. 2
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Both the Polycythemia- and Anemia-Inducing Strains of Friend Spleen Focus-Forming Virus Induce Constitutive Activation of the Raf-1/Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signal Transduction Pathway

Karen W. Muszynski,1 Takashi Ohashi,2,dagger Charlotte Hanson,1 and Sandra K. Ruscetti2,*

Intramural Research Support Program, SAIC Frederick,1 and Basic Research Laboratory, DBS,2 National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201

Received 5 August 1997/Accepted 16 October 1997

The erythroleukemia-inducing Friend spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) encodes a unique envelope glycoprotein which allows erythroid cells to proliferate and differentiate in the absence of erythropoietin (Epo). In an attempt to understand how the virus causes Epo independence, we have been studying signal transduction pathways activated by Epo to determine if SFFV exerts its biological effects by constitutively activating any of these pathways in the absence of Epo. We previously demonstrated that Stat proteins, the downstream components of the Epo-induced Jak-Stat pathway, are constitutively activated in SFFV-infected cells. In this study, we demonstrate that SFFV also activates Raf-1, MEK and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase, the downstream components of the Raf-1/MAP kinase pathway. This pathway was activated in cells infected with the polycythemia-inducing strain of SFFV, which induces both proliferation and differentiation of erythroid cells in the absence of Epo, as well as in cells infected with the anemia-inducing strain of the virus, which still require Epo for differentiation. Inhibition of Raf-1 by using antisense oligonucleotides led to a partial inhibition of the Epo-independent proliferation of SFFV-infected cells. Expression of the transcription factors c-Jun and JunB, but not c-Fos, was induced in SFFV-infected cells in the absence of Epo, suggesting that constitutive activation of the Raf-1/MAP kinase pathway by the virus may result in deregulation of AP-1 activity. We conclude from our studies that infection of erythroid cells with SFFV leads to the constitutive activation of signal transduction molecules in both the Jak-Stat and Raf-1/MAP kinase pathways and that both of these pathways must be activated to achieve maximum proliferation and differentiation of erythroid cells in the absence of Epo.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Basic Research Laboratory, DBS, NCI-FCRDC, P.O. Box B, Frederick, MD 21702-1201. Phone: (301) 846-1586. Fax: (301) 846-6164. E-mail: ruscetti{at}ncifcrf.gov.

dagger Present address: Department of Immunotherapeutics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.




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