Revelations of a captive: retroviral Qin and the oncogenicity of winged helix proteins.
Revelations of a captive: retroviral Qin and the oncogenicity of winged helix proteins.
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俘虏的启示:逆转录病毒Qin和翼螺旋蛋白的致癌性。
DOI:
10.1006/viro.1997.8846
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发表时间:
1997
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Freyaldenhoven,BS
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作者:
Vogt,PK;Li,J;Freyaldenhoven,BS
The path from retrovirus to cellular oncogene is a com- forkhead (fkh), refers to the phenotype of mutants that mon one. All retroviral oncogenes are derived from the show homeotic transformations in the anterior and postegenome of the host cell. They are mutated and assimi- rior gut with head-like structures at both ends of the lated into the viral genome. Their replication, expression, embryo (Weigel et al., 1989). The developmental regulaand movement into new cells are all under viral control tor hepatocyte nuclear factor 3b (HNF-3b) was one of (for reviews see Bishop, 1983; Varmus, 1984). As geneti- the first WH proteins identified in mammals (Lai et al., cally altered captives, they reveal latent properties that 1991). It is highly expressed in the node, notochord, floor are not evident in their cellular progenitors. The qin gene plate, and endoderm of the mouse embryo. HNF-3b null is a recent example, discovered as a cell-derived onco- mutations cause embryonic lethality with defects in node genicdeterminantinaviansarcomavirus31 (ASV31)(Li and notochord formation (Ang and Rossant, 1994; and Vogt, 1993). The genome of ASV 31 is similar to that Weinstein et al., 1994). More than half a dozen WH genes of other defective transforming retroviruses (Fig. 1). Part have now been analyzed by germ line knockouts, and all of the viral gag and all of the pol region are missing and of these show informative phenotypes (Ang and Rossant, replaced by the qin insert that is expressed as a Gag– 1994; Dou et al., 1997; Hatini et al., 1996; Labosky et al., Qin fusion protein. The qin or gag–qin sequences ex- 1997; Weinstein et al., 1994; Winnier et al., 1997; Xuan cised from the ASV 31 genome and inserted into the et al., 1995). A very familiar example of a developmentally retroviral expression vector RCAS show the same onco- important WH gene is the nude mouse, whose immunogenic potential as the native ASV 31. Therefore, qin func- logical deficiencies and lack of hair result from a mutations as the oncogenic determinant of ASV 31; it is its tion in the whn gene that codes for a WH transcription oncogene (Chang et al., 1996; Li and Vogt, 1993). factor (Nehls et al., 1994). Qin codes for a protein that belongs to the winged Qin is the homolog of the mammalian brain factor 1 helix family of transcription factors. The hallmark of this(BF-1). The expression of BF-1 is restricted to the telenfamily is a conserved DNA binding domain, about 100 cephalon, the nasal half of the retina, and the optic stalk amino acids in length (Lai et al., 1993; Kaufmann and(Tao and Lai, 1992). In the developing chicken embryo Knöchel, 1996). One of the three a helixes in this domain expression of Qin is also confined to the telencephalon makes contacts with the major groove of double-(Chang et al., 1995). Mice with null mutations of BF-1 die stranded DNA. These contacts are stabilized by adjacent at birth with severe defects in the development of the loop structures that also interact with the DNA, hence cerebral hemispheres (Xuan et al., 1995). BF-1 is thought the term ‘‘winged helix’’(WH)(Brennan, 1993; Clark et al., to control the replication of cortical progenitor cells, but 1993). Outside the DNA binding domain, WH proteins the mechanism of this regulation is not understood show considerable diversity of sequence and structure.(McConnell, 1995). Overexpression of Qin from a retrovi-They function prominently as determinants of organ de- ral vector in the developing avian retina distorts the visual velopment and tissue differentiation (Costa, 1994). The projection map on the optic tectum, presumably by inprototype gene coding for a WH protein was discovered terfering with normal …