Affiliation:
1. Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111.
Abstract
LMP-1, the Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1, is the only protein encoded by the virus that has been shown to have the properties of a transforming oncogene in rodent fibroblasts such as Rat-1 cells. LMP-1 is phosphorylated and proteolytically cleaved in Rat-1 cells in a manner similar to that seen in human lymphocytes. In this study, we demonstrate that all three major domains of LMP-1 (N-terminal, transmembrane, and C-terminal domains) are required for the ability to transform Rat-1 cells in culture, as assayed by loss of contact inhibition. This study is the first demonstration of a functional role for the C-terminal domain of LMP-1. Our analysis suggests that there are at least three distinct regions of the C terminus involved in signalling. Amino acids 306 to 334, which generate a toxic signal in the absence of amino acids 334 to 364, and the last 23 amino acids, 364 to 386, are essential for transformation. Biochemical analysis of the LMP-1 mutants with the three domains deleted indicate that the mutant N-terminal with the domain deleted is phosphorylated normally but is inefficiently cleaved compared with the wild-type LMP-1. The mutant with the transmembrane domain deleted is also phosphorylated but is not cleaved, showing that phosphorylation of LMP-1 does not require membrane association. The nontransforming mutant with the C-terminal domain deleted that lacks the last 23 amino acids is phosphorylated and cleaved. Therefore, these processing events alone are insufficient to generate a transforming signal.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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