PMID- 21593154 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110921 LR - 20211020 IS - 1098-5514 (Electronic) IS - 0022-538X (Print) IS - 0022-538X (Linking) VI - 85 IP - 15 DP - 2011 Aug TI - Epithelial cell retention of transcriptionally active, P3HR-1-derived heterogeneous Epstein-Barr virus DNA with concurrent loss of parental virus. PG - 7634-43 LID - 10.1128/JVI.00045-11 [doi] AB - Deleted, rearranged, heterogeneous (het) Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA with the distinctive capability of disrupting EBV latency has been reported in biopsy samples of EBV-associated tumors whose onset in immunocompetent hosts is characteristically preceded by an antibody response indicative of EBV reactivation. Using the EBV P3HR-1 strain, we have reproduced in long-term culture of SVK epithelial cells an unusual pattern of infection previously observed in a subset of tumor biopsy samples: the persistence of het DNA in the absence of the parental helper virus. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of infected cell subclones indicated the retention of het DNA in an integrated form. Incorporation of an intact het DNA molecule was confirmed by PCR, using primers that framed junctions of the four rearranged EBV DNA segments comprising P3HR-1-derived het DNA. Structural analysis of EBV terminal repeats revealed a banding pattern consistent with the integration of het DNA as a concatemer. Linkage of concatemeric monomers was defined at a nucleotide level, and that junctional sequence was detected in cell-free P3HR-1 virion DNA, confirming that subgenomic het DNA was packaged into infectious particles in a concatemeric configuration. Stable integration into cells having lost the standard viral genome allowed the unambiguous designation of het DNA as the source for viral gene products potentially encoded by both. Continuous expression of the latency-to-lytic switch protein Zta and detection of the BALF4 gene product gB, known to expand the target cell range of standard virus when incorporated at augmented levels into infectious progeny, add to a presumption of het DNA-enhanced pathogenesis in diseases of EBV reactivation. FAU - Ikuta, Kazufumi AU - Ikuta K AD - Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, LSU Health Sciences Center, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA. FAU - Ding, Mingyu AU - Ding M FAU - Zhang, Fangfang AU - Zhang F FAU - Sixbey, John W AU - Sixbey JW FAU - Scott, Rona S AU - Scott RS LA - eng GR - R01 CA114416/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - P20 RR018724/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA067372/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA114416/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA67372/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20110518 PL - United States TA - J Virol JT - Journal of virology JID - 0113724 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Viral) RN - 0 (DNA Primers) RN - 0 (DNA, Viral) SB - IM MH - Antibodies, Viral/biosynthesis MH - Base Sequence MH - Blotting, Southern MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - DNA Primers MH - DNA, Viral/*genetics MH - Epithelial Cells/*virology MH - Genome, Viral MH - Herpesvirus 4, Human/*genetics/immunology/physiology MH - Humans MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - *Transcription, Genetic MH - Virus Integration PMC - PMC3147926 EDAT- 2011/05/20 06:00 MHDA- 2011/09/22 06:00 PMCR- 2012/02/01 CRDT- 2011/05/20 06:00 PHST- 2011/05/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/05/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/09/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - JVI.00045-11 [pii] AID - 0045-11 [pii] AID - 10.1128/JVI.00045-11 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Virol. 2011 Aug;85(15):7634-43. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00045-11. Epub 2011 May 18.