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Kalchschmidt, J.S.* ; Gillman, A.C.* ; Paschos, K.* ; Bazot, Q.* ; Kempkes, B. ; Allday, M.J.*

EBNA3C directs recruitment of RBPJ (CBF1) to chromatin during the process of gene repression in EBV infected B cells.

PLoS Pathog. 12:e1005383 (2016)
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It is well established that Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 3C (EBNA3C) can act as a potent repressor of gene expression, but little is known about the sequence of events occurring during the repression process. To explore further the role of EBNA3C in gene repression-particularly in relation to histone modifications and cell factors involved-the three host genes previously reported as most robustly repressed by EBNA3C were investigated. COBLL1, a gene of unknown function, is regulated by EBNA3C alone and the two co-regulated disintegrin/metalloproteases, ADAM28 and ADAMDEC1 have been described previously as targets of both EBNA3A and EBNA3C. For the first time, EBNA3C was here shown to be the main regulator of all three genes early after infection of primary B cells. Using various EBV-recombinants, repression over orders of magnitude was seen only when EBNA3C was expressed. Unexpectedly, full repression was not achieved until 30 days after infection. This was accurately reproduced in established LCLs carrying EBV-recombinants conditional for EBNA3C function, demonstrating the utility of the conditional system to replicate events early after infection. Using this system, detailed chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis revealed that the initial repression was associated with loss of activation-associated histone modifications (H3K9ac, H3K27ac and H3K4me3) and was independent of recruitment of polycomb proteins and deposition of the repressive H3K27me3 modification, which were only observed later in repression. Most remarkable, and in contrast to current models of RBPJ in repression, was the observation that this DNA-binding factor accumulated at the EBNA3C-binding sites only when EBNA3C was functional. Transient reporter assays indicated that repression of these genes was dependent on the interaction between EBNA3C and RBPJ. This was confirmed with a novel EBV-recombinant encoding a mutant of EBNA3C unable to bind RBPJ, by showing this virus was incapable of repressing COBLL1 or ADAM28/ADAMDEC1 in newly infected primary B cells.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Epstein-barr-virus; Nuclear Antigen 3c; Signal-binding-protein; Embryonic Stem-cells; J-kappa; Histone Deacetylase; Dna-binding; H2a Ubiquitylation; Response Elements; Prc2 Recruitment
Language english
Publication Year 2016
HGF-reported in Year 2016
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1553-7366
e-ISSN 1553-7374
Journal PLoS Pathogens
Quellenangaben Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: , Article Number: e1005383 Supplement: ,
Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Publishing Place San Francisco
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
POF-Topic(s) 30203 - Molecular Targets and Therapies
Research field(s) Immune Response and Infection
PSP Element(s) G-501500-002
PubMed ID 26751214
Scopus ID 84956815097
Erfassungsdatum 2016-01-13