title: The effects of measles virus persistent infection on AP-1 transcription factor binding in neuroblastoma cells.
abstract: Measles virus (MV) persistence in brain cells has broad effects on different cellular functions. We have previously shown that NS20Y clone, originally derived from C1300 neuroblastoma cells, persistently infected with MV (NS20Y/MS), displays constitutively elevated levels of c-fos and PKC mRNAs, implying MV-mediated effects on transcriptional regulation. Nonetheless, the mode by which virus affects the transcriptional machinery still remains obscure. In order to define this phenomenon, we studied the binding properties of major transcription factors (AP-1 and NFkappaB) in NS20Y/MS cells. Using electrophoretic mobility shift approach (EMSA) with the appropriate oligonucleotide probes, we have found that the persistent MV infection does not affect NFkappaB binding, while the AP-1 binding was significantly decreased. Similar inhibition was not observed in NS20Y cells acutely infected with MV. Anti-measles antibody-mediated restriction of viral gene expression restored AP-1 binding, thus suggesting that measles virus proteins may affect the components of the host transcriptional machinery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Cancer Research Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fishman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolfson
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bazarski
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Segal
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rager-Zisman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051921:Fos-Related Antigen-2; D008459:Measles virus / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism; D009447:Neuroblastoma; D011485:Protein Binding; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos / Q000378:metabolism; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun / Q000378:metabolism; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014709:Vero Cells; D000099169:Fos-Related Antigen 1
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D051921:Fos-Related Antigen-2; D016328:NF-kappa B; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000099169:Fos-Related Antigen 1; C497873:Fosl2 protein, mouse