Affiliation:
1. Department of Immunology and Microbiology and the Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Infection of thymic lymphocytes by a mink cell focus-forming murine leukemia virus induces apoptosis during the preleukemic period of lymphomagenesis. In this study, we observed that during this period, the viral envelope precursor polyprotein accumulated to high levels in thymic lymphocytes from mice inoculated with virus. Envelope accumulation occurred with the same kinetics as the induction of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, which resulted in the upregulation of the 78-kDa glucose-regulated protein (GRP78). In thymic lymphomas, GRP78 levels were higher than those in virus-infected preleukemic cells, and GRP58 was upregulated. These results suggest that Env precursor accumulation induces ER stress, which participates in thymic lymphocyte apoptosis. The subsequent upregulation of ER chaperone proteins GRP78 and GRP58 may contribute to rescuing cells from virus-induced apoptosis.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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