The impact of HTLV-1 on the cellular genome
The impact of HTLV-1 on the cellular genome
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DOI:
10.1016/j.coviro.2017.07.013
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发表时间:
2017-10-01
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
Bangham, Charles R. M.
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作者:
Cook, Lucy;Melamed, Anat;Bangham, Charles R. M.
Human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is the causative agent of adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATL), an aggressive CD4+ T-cell malignancy. The mechanisms of leukaemogenesis in ATL are incompletely understood. Insertional mutagenesis has not previously been thought to contribute to the pathogenesis of ATL. However, the recent discovery that HTLV-1 binds the key chromatin architectural protein CTCF raises the hypothesis that HTLV-1 deregulates host gene expression by causing abnormal chromatin looping, bringing the strong HTLV-1 promoter-enhancer near to host genes that lie up to 2 Mb from the integrated provirus. Here we review current opinion on the mechanisms of oncogenesis in ATL, with particular emphasis on the local and distant impact of HTLV-1 on the structure and expression of the host genome.