title: Bovine leukemia virus transmembrane protein gp30 physically associates with the down-regulatory phosphatase SHP-1.
abstract: In B lymphocytes, the down-regulatory phosphatase SHP-1 associates with CD22 and CD32b (also known as FcgammaRIIB) and acts as a critical negative regulator of B-cell receptor signaling. Bovine leukemia virus, a retrovirus of the HTLV/BLV group, causes persistently increased numbers of peripheral blood B lymphocytes, known as persistent lymphocytosis (PL) and, in some animals, progression to B-cell leukemia and/or lymphoma. Here, we show that SHP-1 associates with the bovine leukemia virus transmembrane protein, gp30. This interaction is either direct or indirect. The interaction is dependent on tyrosine phosphorylation, and the interaction increases after cell stimulation with sodium pervanadate. The gp30-SHP-1 interaction is seen in all of the BLV-infected, PL animals tested, but is not seen in uninfected animals or in most BLV-infected, non-PL animals, which do not express significant quantities of gp30. However, one BLV-infected, non-PL animal expressed large quantities of gp30, yet no gp30-SHP-1 interaction was detected, suggesting that there may be other factors in cells from the PL animals that facilitate the gp30-SHP-1 interaction. The association of gp30 and SHP-1 suggests the hypothesis that gp30 may act as a decoy to sequester SHP-1, resulting in up-regulation of B-cell receptor signaling. The implication of this could be a novel mechanism of viral activation of lymphocytes by removal of a down-regulatory phosphatase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-7040, USA.
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Cantor
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Pritchard
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Orlik
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Splitter
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reeves
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D002417:Cattle; D015536:Down-Regulation; D016583:Enzootic Bovine Leukosis / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D011485:Protein Binding; D054592:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11; D053824:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000378:metabolism*; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic / Q000378:metabolism*; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; C060711:gp30 envelope transmembrane protein, Bovine leukemia virus; C516724:PTPN11 protein, human; C509249:PTPN6 protein, human; D054592:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11; D053824:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases