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Journal of Virology, March 2004, p. 2609-2614, Vol. 78, No. 5
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.5.2609-2614.2004

Requirement of a 12-Base-Pair TATT-Containing Sequence and Viral Lytic DNA Replication in Activation of the Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus K8.1 Late Promoter

Shuang Tang, Koji Yamanegi, and Zhi-Ming Zheng*

HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Received 28 May 2003/ Accepted 25 November 2003

Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) K8.1 late promoter consists of a minimal 24-bp sequence, with a TATA-like, 12-bp promoter core, AATATTAAAGGG, and is active on a reporter only in butyrate-induced KSHV-infected cells. The activity of the K8.1 promoter can be enhanced (>15-fold) by the KSHV left-end lytic origin of DNA replication (oriLyt-L) sequence while providing inefficient replication of plasmid DNA and is inhibited by viral DNA replication inhibitors, suggesting that activation of the K8.1 promoter on the reporter is involved in KSHV lytic DNA replication largely by trans.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Rm. 10S255, MSC 1868, 10 Center Dr., Bethesda, MD 20892-1868. Phone: (301) 594-1382. Fax: (301) 480-8250. E-mail: zhengt{at}exchange.nih.gov.


Journal of Virology, March 2004, p. 2609-2614, Vol. 78, No. 5
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.5.2609-2614.2004




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