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Published on: November 8, 2011
Interaction of phospholipid scramblase 1 with the Epstein-Barr virus protein BZLF1 represses BZLF1-mediated lytic
Shuichi Kusano1, Masanori Ikeda2
1Division of Biological Information Technology, Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan k2873052@kadai.jp.
Abstract:
Human phospholipid scramblase 1 (PLSCR1) is strongly expressed in response to interferon (IFN) treatment and viral infection, and PLSCR1 has been suggested to play an important role in IFN-dependent antiviral responses. In this study, we showed that the basal expression of PLSCR1 was significantly elevated in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-infected nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). PLSCR1 was observed to directly interact with the EBV immediate-early transactivator BZLF1 in vitro and in vivo, and this interaction repressed the BZLF1-mediated transactivation of an EBV lytic BMRF1 promoter construct. In addition, PLSCR1 expression decreased the BZLF1-mediated up-regulation of lytic BMRF1 mRNA and protein expression in WT and PLSCR1-knockout EBV-infected NPC cells. Furthermore, we showed that PLSCR1 represses the interaction between BZLF1 and CREB-binding protein (CBP), which enhances the BZLF1-mediated transactivation of EBV lytic promoters. These results reveal for the first time that PLSCR1 specifically interacts with BZLF1 and negatively regulates its transcriptional regulatory activity by preventing the formation of the BZLF1-CBP complex. This interaction may contribute to the establishment of latent EBV infection in EBV-infected NPC cells.
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