PuSH - Publikationsserver des Helmholtz Zentrums München

Immortalization of human B lymphocytes by a plasmid containing 71 kilobase pairs of Epstein-Barr virus DNA.

J. Virol. 69, 231-238 (1995)
Verlagsversion Volltext PMC
Closed
Open Access Green möglich sobald Postprint bei der ZB eingereicht worden ist.
We have assembled derivatives of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) that include 71 kbp of noncontiguous DNA sequences cloned into a prokaryotic F-factor plasmid. These mini-EBVs, when introduced into an EBV-containing lymphoblastoid cell, can be packaged by the endogenous helper virus. One such mini-EBV was found to have a single C residue deleted from its EBNA3a open reading frame. When packaged, this mini-EBV initiates proliferation of infected primary human B lymphocytes only in conjunction with a complementing helper virus. Proliferation of the infected cells, however, was maintained either alone by the mini-EBV containing the mutated EBNA3a open reading frame or alone by its derivative in which the EBNA3a open reading frame had been healed of its lesion by recombination with the helper virus. The mini-EBV with a wild-type EBNA3a open reading frame when packaged alone can both initiate and maintain proliferation upon infection of primary human B lymphocytes. These findings identify 41% of EBV DNA which is sufficient to immortalize primary human B lymphocytes and provide an assay to distinguish virus contributions to initiation or maintenance of cell proliferation or both. They also identify EBNA3a as a transforming gene, which contributes primarily to the initiation of cell proliferation.
Impact Factor
Scopus SNIP
Altmetric
0.000
0.000
Tags
Anmerkungen
Besondere Publikation
Auf Hompepage verbergern

Zusatzinfos bearbeiten
Eigene Tags bearbeiten
Privat
Eigene Anmerkung bearbeiten
Privat
Auf Publikationslisten für
Homepage nicht anzeigen
Als besondere Publikation
markieren
Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr 1995
HGF-Berichtsjahr 0
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0022-538X
e-ISSN 1098-5514
Zeitschrift Journal of Virology
Quellenangaben Band: 69, Heft: 1, Seiten: 231-238 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
PubMed ID 7983714
Erfassungsdatum 1995-12-31