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Journal of Virology, December 1999, p. 10525-10530, Vol. 73, No. 12
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
An Epstein-Barr Virus That Expresses Only the First
231 LMP1 Amino Acids Efficiently Initiates Primary B-Lymphocyte
Growth Transformation
Kenneth M.
Kaye,1,*
Kenneth M.
Izumi,2
Hong
Li,1
Eric
Johannsen,2
David
Davidson,2,
Richard
Longnecker,2,
and
Elliott
Kieff2
Department of
Medicine1 and Departments of
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,2 Harvard
Medical School, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Received 24 May 1999/Accepted 2 September 1999
An Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) recombinant (MS231) that expresses the
first 231 amino acids (aa) of LMP1 and is truncated 155 aa before the
carboxyl terminus transformed resting B lymphocytes into lymphoblastoid
cell lines (LCLs) only when the infected cells were grown on fibroblast
feeder cells (K. M. Kaye et al., J. Virol. 69:675-683,
1995). Higher-titer MS231 virus has now been compared to wild-type (WT)
EBV recombinants for the ability to cause resting primary B-lymphocyte
transformation. Unexpectedly, MS231 is as potent as WT EBV recombinants
in causing infected B lymphocytes to proliferate in culture for up to 5 weeks. When more than one transforming event is initiated in a
microwell, the MS231 recombinant supports efficient long-term LCL
outgrowth and fibroblast feeder cells are not required. However, with
limited virus input, MS231-infected cells differed in their growth from
WT virus-infected cells as early as 6 weeks after infection. In
contrast to WT virus-infected cells, most MS231-infected cells could
not be grown into long-term LCLs. Thus, the LMP1 amino-terminal 231 aa
are sufficient for initial growth transformation but the
carboxyl-terminal 155 aa are necessary for efficient long-term
outgrowth. Despite the absence of the carboxyl-terminal 155 aa, MS231-
and WT-transformed LCLs are similar in latent EBV gene expression, in
ICAM-1 and CD23 expression, and in NF-
B and c-jun N-terminal kinase
activation. MS231 recombinant-infected LCLs, however, require 16- to
64-fold higher cell density than WT-infected LCLs for regrowth after
limiting dilution. These data indicate that the LMP1 carboxyl-terminal 155 aa are important for growth at lower cell density and appear to
reduce dependence on paracrine growth factors.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Channing
Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Ave., Boston,
MA 02115. Phone: (617) 525-4256. Fax: (617) 525-4251. E-mail:
kkaye{at}rics.bwh.harvard.edu.

Present address: GelTex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Waltham, MA
02154.

Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Northwestern University, Chicago,
Ill.
Journal of Virology, December 1999, p. 10525-10530, Vol. 73, No. 12
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Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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