PMID- 17408888 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070912 LR - 20131121 IS - 0378-1135 (Print) IS - 0378-1135 (Linking) VI - 123 IP - 1-3 DP - 2007 Jul 20 TI - Antiapoptotic activity of bovine herpesvirus type-1 (BHV-1) UL14 protein. PG - 210-6 AB - Viruses have evolved different strategies to interfere with apoptotic pathways in order to halt cellular responses to infection. One previous study showed that transient transfection of bovine herpesvirus type-1 (BHV-1) UL14 protein is efficient in protecting Madin Darby kidney (MDBK) and human chronic myelogenous leukemia (K562) cells from sorbitol-induced apoptosis. This protein corresponds to a putative protein of BHV-1, which shares aminoacid sequence with a part of the peptide-binding domain conserved in human heat shock protein (HSP70) family. The pBK-CMV-UL14 plasmid transfected MDBK cells treated with sorbitol did not show caspase-3 and caspase-9 activation with respect to non-transfected MDBK cells (UL14 negative). Furthermore, we report that the expression of the full length sequence of BHV-1 UL14 is evident after 7 h of infection of BHV-1 on MDBK cells which were then treated with sorbitol. These results indicate that UL14 gene product has important implications to enhance cell survival in response to apoptotic stimuli. FAU - De Martino, L AU - De Martino L AD - Department of Pathology and Animal Health, Infectious Diseases, Medicine Veterinary School, University of Naples Federico II, Via F. Delpino 1, 80137 Naples, Italy. luisa.demartino@unina.it FAU - Marfe, G AU - Marfe G FAU - Consalvo, M Irno AU - Consalvo MI FAU - Di Stefano, C AU - Di Stefano C FAU - Pagnini, U AU - Pagnini U FAU - Sinibaldi-Salimei, P AU - Sinibaldi-Salimei P LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20070228 PL - Netherlands TA - Vet Microbiol JT - Veterinary microbiology JID - 7705469 RN - 0 (UL14 protein, Human herpesvirus 1) RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) RN - 506T60A25R (Sorbitol) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Caspase 3) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Caspase 9) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis/*physiology MH - Caspase 3/metabolism MH - Caspase 9/metabolism MH - Cattle MH - Cell Line MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Viral MH - Herpesvirus 1, Bovine/*metabolism MH - Humans MH - Sorbitol MH - Viral Proteins/genetics/*metabolism EDAT- 2007/04/06 09:00 MHDA- 2007/09/13 09:00 CRDT- 2007/04/06 09:00 PHST- 2006/12/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2007/02/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2007/02/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2007/04/06 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/09/13 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/04/06 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0378-1135(07)00107-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.02.026 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Vet Microbiol. 2007 Jul 20;123(1-3):210-6. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.02.026. Epub 2007 Feb 28.