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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-2-18
pubmed:abstractText
Murid herpesvirus 4 (MuHV-4) is a member of the Gammaherpesvirus subfamily capable to establish a long-lasting latency and induce occasional malignancies. Because MuHV-4 is associated with cancer in a subset of virus-infected mice and because tumor development is often linked with hypoxia, we studied the influence of hypoxia on the biology of this virus. Using immunofluorescence and FACS analysis we detected increased proportion of MuHV-4 positive cells in the latently infected NB-78 cell line exposed to low oxygen conditions compared to normoxic controls. Moreover, the expression of ORF50, a crucial gene responsible for switch from latency to lytic virus replication, was induced upon the exposure of NB-78 cells to hypoxia. Luciferase reporter assays with ORF50 promoter confirmed the hypoxia-dependent induction. Transient co-transfections with hypoxia inducible factors showed that HIF-2alpha is a more potent activator of ORF50 expression than HIF-1alpha. Our results confirm that the MuHV-4 life cycle is influenced by low oxygen concentration.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0168-1702
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
132
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
257-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Antigens, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Cell Hypoxia, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Gene Expression Regulation, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Genes, Reporter, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Oxygen, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Rhadinovirus, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Up-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Virus Activation, pubmed-meshheading:18221814-Virus Latency
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Up-regulation of Murid herpesvirus 4 ORF50 by hypoxia: possible implication for virus reactivation from latency.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 05 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't