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ArticleJournal of virology2005

Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus K8beta is derived from a spliced intermediate of K8 pre-mRNA and antagonizes K8alpha (K-bZIP) to induce p21 and p53 and blocks K8alpha-CDK2 interaction.

Koji Yamanegi, Shuang Tang, Zhi-Ming Zheng

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Article in Journal of virology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Koji YamanegiHIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1868, USA.
Shuang Tang
Zhi-Ming Zheng
Center for Cancer Research · USNational Cancer Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Viral RNA Splicing and TumorigenesisZ01SC010357 · SC · DIVISION OF CLINICAL SCIENCES - NCI · PI ZHENG, ZHI-MING · 2000 to 2008
$1.9M
Intramural NIH HHSNCI NIH HHS Z01 SC010357-06
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a lymphotropic DNA tumor virus that induces Kaposi's sarcoma and AIDS-related primary effusion lymphoma. KSHV open reading frame 50 and K8 genes in early viral lytic infection express, respectively, a tricistronic and a bicistronic pre-mRNA, which undergo alternative splicing to create two major spliced mRNA isoforms, alpha and beta, by inclusion (beta) or exclusion (alpha) of an intron at nucleotides 75563 to 75645. This intron contains some suboptimal features, which cause the intron 5' splice site (ss) to interact weakly with U1 snRNA and the 3' ss to bind a U2 auxiliary factor, U2AF, with low affinity. Optimization of this intron in K8 (K8 intron 2) promoted the interaction of the 5' ss with U1 and the 3' ss with U2AF, resulting in a substantial increase in intron splicing. Splicing of K8 intron 2 has also been shown to be stimulated by the splicing of a downstream intron. This was confirmed by the insertion of a human beta-globin intron into the K8beta exon 3-exon 4 splice junction, which promoted splicing of K8beta intron 2 and conversion of the K8beta mRNA to the K8alpha mRNA that encodes a K-bZIP protein. Intron 2 contains a premature termination codon, yet the K8beta mRNA is insensitive to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, suggesting that the truncated K8beta protein may have a biological function. Indeed, although the truncated K8beta protein is missing only a C-terminal leucine zipper domain from the K-bZIP, its expression antagonizes the ability of the K-bZIP to induce p53 and p21 and blocks K-bZIP-CDK2 interaction through interfering K8alpha mRNA production.

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingBase SequenceB-LymphocytesCell LineDNA PrimersGene Expression Regulation, ViralHeLa CellsHerpesvirus 8, HumanHumansIntronsKidneyPlasmidsRibonuclease HRNA PrecursorsRNA, ViralTransfectionDNA PrimersRibonuclease HRNA PrecursorsRNA, Viral

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PMID16254356
PMCPMC1280184
OpenAlexW2117748903

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