ArticleThe Journal of general virology2021
Regulation of host and viral promoters during human cytomegalovirus latency via US28 and CTCF.
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- Why Are Cytomegalovirus-Encoded G-Protein-Coupled Receptors Essential for Infection but Only Variably Conserved?Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Loopy virus or controlled contortionist? 3D regulation of HCMV gene expression by CTCF-driven chromatin interactions.Journal of virology · 2024Review
- Virus-Specific Nanobody-Chimeras Degrade the Human Cytomegalovirus US28 Protein in CD34+ Cells.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Controlling Much? Viral Control of Host Chromatin Dynamics.Annual review of virology · 2024Review
- Delivery of US28 by incoming HCMV particles rapidly attenuates Akt activity to suppress HCMV lytic replication in monocytes.Science signaling · 2024Article
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- Host-encoded CTCF regulates human cytomegalovirus latency via chromatin looping.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The three-dimensional structure of the EBV genome plays a crucial role in regulating viral gene expression in EBVaGC.Nucleic acids research · 2023Article
- NFκB and Cyclic AMP Response Element Sites Mediate the Valproic Acid and UL138 Responsiveness of the Human Cytomegalovirus Major Immediate Early Enhancer and Promoter.Journal of virology · 2023Article
- Cytomegalovirus US28 regulates cellular EphA2 to maintain viral latency.Science advances · 2022Article
- Human Cytomegalovirus Utilizes Multiple Viral Proteins to Regulate the Basement Membrane Protein Nidogen 1.Journal of virology · 2022Article
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- A Viral Long Non-Coding RNA Protects against Cell Death during Human Cytomegalovirus Infection of CD14+ Monocytes.Viruses · 2022Article
- Latency-associated upregulation of SERBP1 is important for the recruitment of transcriptional repressors to the viral major immediate early promoter of human cytomegalovirus during latent carriage.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Viral latency is an active process during which the host cell environment is optimized for latent carriage and reactivation. This requires control of both viral and host gene promoters and enhancers often at the level of chromatin, and several viruses co-opt the chromatin organiser CTCF to control gene expression during latency. While CTCF has a role in the latencies of alpha- and gamma-herpesviruses, it was not known whether CTCF played a role in the latency of the beta-herpesvirus human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). Here, we show that HCMV latency is associated with increased CTCF expression and CTCF binding to the viral major lytic promoter, the major immediate early promoter (MIEP). This increase in CTCF binding is dependent on the virally encoded G protein coupled receptor, US28, and contributes to suppression of MIEP-driven transcription, a hallmark of latency. Furthermore, we show that latency-associated upregulation of CTCF represses expression of the neutrophil chemoattractants S100A8 and S100A9 which we have previously shown are downregulated during HCMV latency. As with downregulation of the MIEP, CTCF binding to the enhancer region of S100A8/A9 drives their suppression, again in a US28-dependent manner. Taken together, we identify CTCF upregulation as an important mechanism for optimizing latent carriage of HCMV at both the levels of viral and cellular gene expression.
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