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Journal of Virology, August 2000, p. 7331-7337, Vol. 74, No. 16
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Analysis of Gene Expression in a Human Cell Line Stably Transduced with Herpesvirus Saimiri

Kersten T. Hall, Mathew S. Giles, Delyth J. Goodwin, Michael A. Calderwood, Ian M. Carr, Alex J. Stevenson, Alex F. Markham, and Adrian Whitehouse*

Molecular Medicine Unit, University of Leeds, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, United Kingdom

Received 7 February 2000/Accepted 15 May 2000

Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is the prototype gamma-2 herpesvirus; it has significant homology to the human gammaherpesviruses Kaposi's sarcoma-associated virus and Epstein-Barr virus and the murine gammaherpesvirus murine herpesvirus 68. HVS causes a persistent asymptomatic infection in its natural host, the squirrel monkey. Both subgroups A and C possess the ability to immortalize common marmoset T lymphocytes to interleukin-2-independent proliferation. However, only subgroup C is capable of transforming human, rabbit, and rhesus monkey lymphocytes in vitro. In addition, HVS can stably transduce a variety of human cell lines where the virus persists as a nonintegrating circular episome. In this study, we have developed a system in which the HVS DNA is stably maintained as a nonintegrated circular episome in the human lung carcinoma cell line A549. Virus production can be reactivated using chemical inducing agents, including tetradecanoyl phorbol acetate and n-butyrate, suggesting that the infection in human A549 cells is latent. To analyze virus gene expression in these stably transduced cells, Northern blot analysis was performed using a series of probes produced from restriction fragments spanning the entire coding region of the HVS genome. This demonstrated that an adjacent set of genes containing open reading frames (ORFs) 71 to 73 are expressed in this stably transduced cell line. Moreover, these genes are transcribed as a polycistronic mRNA species produced from a common promoter upstream of ORF 73. This model may serve as a useful tool in the further analysis of the role of ORFs 71 to 73 in gamma-2 herpesvirus latency.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Molecular Medicine Unit, University of Leeds, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-113 2066328. Fax: 44-113 2444475. E-mail: A.Whitehouse{at}leeds.ac.uk.

Journal of Virology, August 2000, p. 7331-7337, Vol. 74, No. 16
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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