EBNA2-EBF1 complexes promote MYC expression and metabolic processes driving S-phase progression of Epstein-Barr virus-infected B cells.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119:e2200512119 (2022)
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human tumor virus which preferentially infects resting human B cells. Upon infection in vitro, EBV activates and immortalizes these cells. The viral latent protein EBV nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2) is essential for B cell activation and immortalization; it targets and binds the cellular and ubiquitously expressed DNA-binding protein CBF1, thereby transactivating a plethora of viral and cellular genes. In addition, EBNA2 uses its N-terminal dimerization (END) domain to bind early B cell factor 1 (EBF1), a pioneer transcription factor specifying the B cell lineage. We found that EBNA2 exploits EBF1 to support key metabolic processes and to foster cell cycle progression of infected B cells in their first cell cycles upon activation. The α1-helix within the END domain was found to promote EBF1 binding. EBV mutants lacking the α1-helix in EBNA2 can infect and activate B cells efficiently, but activated cells fail to complete the early S phase of their initial cell cycle. Expression of MYC, target genes of MYC and E2F, as well as multiple metabolic processes linked to cell cycle progression are impaired in EBVΔα1-infected B cells. Our findings indicate that EBF1 controls B cell activation via EBNA2 and, thus, has a critical role in regulating the cell cycle of EBV-infected B cells. This is a function of EBF1 going beyond its well-known contribution to B cell lineage specification.
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B Cell Activation ; Epstein-barr Virus ; Myc Expression ; Rna Sequencing ; Transcription Factor; Rbp-j-kappa; Nuclear Antigen-2; Binding-protein; C-myc; Latent Membrane-protein-1; Transcription Factors; Proliferation; Ebf1; Lymphocytes; Genes
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englisch
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2022
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2022
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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Band: 119,
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National Academy of Sciences
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30203 - Molecular Targets and Therapies
30204 - Cell Programming and Repair
30205 - Bioengineering and Digital Health
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Immune Response and Infection
Stem Cell and Neuroscience
Helmholtz Diabetes Center
Enabling and Novel Technologies
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2022-11-03