title: Analysis of a novel defective HTLV-I provirus and detection of a new HTLV-I-induced cellular transcript.
abstract: HTLV-I generally integrates at least one full-length copy in adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) cells. A group of patients without full-length provirus have a unique conserved truncation of the provirus which retains env-pX-3'LTR. Tumor cells of a patient from this group were genetically analyzed. Analysis of the 5' and 3' cellular flanking region adjacent to the provirus suggest that the defective provirus was integrated immediately downstream of a promoter of an unknown cellular gene. The activity of the promoter was weak but was responsive to Tax-like HTLV-I LTR. The provirus may have utilized it as a substitute for the 5'LTR and thus 3'LTR may have become an alternative promoter for the cellular gene, which may give similar viral-cellular interactions to that of general cases with full-length proviruses. Surprisingly, the 3' cellular flanking region which is thought to be controlled originally by the promoter is constitutively expressed specifically in an HTLV-I producing ATL cell line HUT1O2G, in which the corresponding region is not modified by provirus. The detection of this HTLV-I-induced transcript provides a probe to find an HTLV-I inducible unknown cellular gene that may be related to the pathogenesis of ATL.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D003673:Defective Viruses / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015752:Genes, env; D015368:Human T-lymphotropic virus 1 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney; D015458:Leukemia, T-Cell / Q000235:genetics / Q000821:virology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids; D011533:Proviruses / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D016662:Virus Integration
chemical_list: D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase