title: Epithelial cell retention of transcriptionally active, P3HR-1-derived heterogeneous Epstein-Barr virus DNA with concurrent loss of parental virus.
abstract: 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.
authors: Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, LSU Health Sciences Center, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA.
authors: Kazufumi
authors: K
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authors: M
authors: Ding
authors: Fangfang
authors: F
authors: Zhang
authors: John W
authors: JW
authors: Sixbey
authors: Rona S
authors: RS
authors: Scott
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