Journal
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
Volume 84, Issue 8, Pages 1279-1288Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.23316
Keywords
EBV; p53; Sp1; Zta; reactivation
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- National Science Council [100-2320-B-002-100-MY3, 98-2320-B-400-005-MY3]
- National Health Research Institute [NHRI-EX101-10031BI]
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital [CMRPD1A0092]
- NHRI Postdoctoral Fellowship Award [PD9701]
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EpsteinBarr virus (EBV) belongs to the gammaherpesvirus family. To produce infectious progeny, EBV reactivates from latency into the lytic cycle by expressing the determinative lytic transactivator, Zta. In the presence of histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi), p53 is a prerequisite for the initiation of the EBV lytic cycle by facilitating the expression of Zta. In this study, a serial mutational analysis of Zta promoter (Zp) indicated an important role for the ZID element in responding to HDACi induction and p53 binds to this ZID element together with Sp1, a universal transcription factor. Abolition of the DNA-binding ability of Sp1 reduces the inducibility of ZID by HDACi and also reduces the amount of p53 binding to ZID. Finally, it was shown that EBV in p53-positive-lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) can enter into the lytic cycle spontaneously; however, knockdown of p53 in LCLs leads to retardation of EBV reactivation. J. Med. Virol. 84: 12791288, 2012. (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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