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ArticleViruses2025

HTLV-I Basic Leucine Zipper Factor (sHBZ) Actively Associates with Nucleophosmin (B23) in the Nucleolus.

Nahid Moghadam, Yong Xiao, Francois Dragon, Benoit Barbeau

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4 authors.

Nahid MoghadamDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), 141 President-Kennedy Avenue, Montreal, QC H2X 3X8, Canada.
Yong XiaoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), 141 President-Kennedy Avenue, Montreal, QC H2X 3X8, Canada.
Francois DragonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), 141 President-Kennedy Avenue, Montreal, QC H2X 3X8, Canada.
Benoit BarbeauDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), 141 President-Kennedy Avenue, Montreal, QC H2X 3X8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7186-9756

Funding

Center of Excellence in Research on Orphan Diseases - Fondation Courtois (CERMO-FC) Non existing
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV 1) is an oncogenic retrovirus responsible for the development of adult T cell leukemia (ATL). The minus strand of HTLV-1 provirus encodes an oncoprotein named HTLV-1 bZIP factor (HBZ), which plays a pivotal role in viral replication and T cell proliferation. Of particular interest is the spliced HBZ isoform (sHBZ), which is predominantly expressed in ATL cells and localizes within the nucleolus, conferring immortalizing properties to T cells. Our previous study has shown that sHBZ colocalizes and associates with Nucleophosmin/B23, a nucleolar phosphoprotein with multiple functions. In this study, through an optimized nucleolar isolation method, we first confirmed sHBZ's nucleolar localization via Western blotting in transfected HEK293T cells, chronically HTLV-1-infected T cell lines, and freshly infected HeLa cells. We further demonstrated that the sHBZ/B23 association predominantly occurs in the nucleolus by co-immunoprecipitation of cell fractions. Our study highlights the nucleolar localization of sHBZ and its possibly essential interaction with this nucleolar-residing protein, leading to cell immortalization.

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Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsCell NucleolusHuman T-lymphotropic virus 1Nuclear ProteinsRetroviridae ProteinsHEK293 CellsHeLa CellsHumansNucleophosminProtein BindingBasic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsHBZ protein, human T-cell leukemia virus type INPM1 protein, humanNuclear ProteinsNucleophosminRetroviridae ProteinsATLHTLV-1nucleolusnucleophosmin/B23sHBZT cell proliferation

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PMID40431738
PMCPMC12115704

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