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ArticleJournal of virology2004

Intracellular approach for blocking JC virus gene expression by using RNA interference during viral infection.

Sujatha Radhakrishnan, Jennifer Gordon, Luis Del Valle, Jianqi Cui, Kamel Khalili

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Article in Journal of virology, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sujatha RadhakrishnanCenter for Neurovirology and Cancer Biology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
Jennifer Gordon
Luis Del Valle
Jianqi Cui
Kamel Khalili
Temple University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human polyomavirus, JC virus (JCV), encodes two regulatory proteins at the early (T antigen) and the late (agnoprotein) phases of viral infection whose activities are important for the production of the viral capsid proteins and the dysregulation of several host factors and their functions. For this study, we designed and utilized an RNA interference strategy via small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that targeted the expression of T antigen and agnoprotein in human astrocytic cells. The treatment of cells with specific siRNA oligonucleotides targeting a conserved region of T antigen, nucleotides (nt) 4256 to 4276 (Mad-1 strain), caused a >50% decline in the level of T antigen and in its transcriptional activity upon the viral capsid genes as well as a significant reduction in viral DNA replication in infected cells. Similarly, a single siRNA that aimed at nt 324 to 342 of agnoprotein noticeably reduced early and late viral protein production. A combined treatment of the infected cells with both T-antigen and agnoprotein siRNAs completely abolished viral capsid protein production, indicative of the ability of the siRNAs to effectively halt multiplication of the virus in infected cells. These observations provide a new avenue for possible treatments of patients with the JCV-induced demyelinating disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, ViralRNA InterferenceAntigens, Viral, TumorAstrocytesCapsidCells, CulturedHumansImmunohistochemistryJC VirusRNA, Small InterferingViral ProteinsViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsViroporin ProteinsVirus Replicationagnoprotein, polyomavirusAntigens, Viral, TumorRNA, Small InterferingViral ProteinsViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsViroporin Proteins

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PMID15194802
PMCPMC421679
OpenAlexW2139404232

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