Epstein-Barr Virus and Human Disease
Epstein-Barr Virus and Human Disease
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EB 病毒与人类疾病
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-4590-2
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
R. Glaser
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作者:
Paul H. Levine;D. Ablashi;M. Nonoyama;G. R. Pearson;R. Glaser
We identified one of the products encoded by P3HR-l defective DNA as a 45/60 kd family of polypeptides which mapped to the BHLF1/BSLF2 open reading frames. We termed this product HS-EA. In transient expression assays, both wild-type and defective DNA encoded HS-EA were found to activate expression from a variety of promoter-CAT constructs. Thus HS-EA has the properties of a generalized trans-activator. Superinfection of the latently EBV-infected Raji cell line with P3HR-l virus results in the induction of lytic cycle expression in the Raji cells. Defective-free clonal isolates of P3HR-l are unable to induce early antigen (EA) expression in Raji which implicates the defective DNA population as agents for the induction (1). The defective DNA induced lytic gene expression in Raji cells provides a model system for reactivation of virus from latency. With this in mind, we cloned the major P3HR-l defective DNA species and sought to identify within the defective DNA clones genes whose products might play a role in the lytic induction process. Baby hamster kidney cells were transfected with defective DNA clones and stained with characterized human sera. This procedure identified a nuclear