TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of deletions within the Bam HI-L fragment of attenuated Marek's disease virus on vIL-8 expression and the newly identified transcript of open reading frame LORF4
AU - Jarosinski, Keith William
AU - O'Connell, Priscilla Helene
AU - Schat, Karel Antoni
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Dr. Nikolaus Osterrieder for input and critical evaluation of this report. This work was supported in part by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under agreement no. 98-35204-6425 and USDA Regional Research NE-60 to Karel A. Schat, and USDA/CSREES/NRICGP postdoctoral fellowship award no. 2001-35204-10152 to Keith W. Jarosinski.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Marek's disease (MD) in chickens is caused by MD herpesvirus (MDV), which induces T cell lymphomas. The early pathogenesis of MDV infection is characterized by a primary infection in B lymphocytes followed by infection of activated T lymphocytes. It has been speculated that a MDV-encoded homologue of interleukin-8 (vIL-8) may be important to attract activated T lymphocytes to infected B lymphocytes. Recently, more virulent strains of MDV have emerged, named very virulent plus (vv+)MDV, that cause earlier and more prolonged cytolytic infections compared to less virulent strains. In this report, it was found that vIL-8 mRNA expression in vivo was increased in very virulent (vv) and vv+MDV strains compared to mild (m) and virulent (v) strains, and could not be detected in two attenuated MDV strains examined using very sensitive real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assays. In order to identify potential mechanisms for the increased vIL-8 mRNA expression in more virulent strains, and lack thereof in attenuated strains, the vIL-8 gene and putative promoter sequences upstream of the vIL-8 gene were compared from 10 different MDV strains, including attenuated derivatives. Only the JM-16 strain (both non-attenuated and attenuated) and attenuated 584A (584Ap80C) encoded a predicted vIL-8 gene sequence different from all other strains examined. Within the putative vIL-8 gene promoter sequence, there was little difference among the non-attenuated strains; however significant deletions were identified in the attenuated JM-16/p71, Md11 (R2/23), and 584Ap80C strains. Additionally, these deletions were located within a previously hypothetical open reading frame (ORF) named LORF4. Rapid amplification of cDNA ends identified a full-length transcript of LORF4 in the MDV-transformed lymphoblastoid cell line MSB-1, and deletions within this ORF caused truncated predicted proteins in 4 out of 6 attenuated MDV strains examined.
AB - Marek's disease (MD) in chickens is caused by MD herpesvirus (MDV), which induces T cell lymphomas. The early pathogenesis of MDV infection is characterized by a primary infection in B lymphocytes followed by infection of activated T lymphocytes. It has been speculated that a MDV-encoded homologue of interleukin-8 (vIL-8) may be important to attract activated T lymphocytes to infected B lymphocytes. Recently, more virulent strains of MDV have emerged, named very virulent plus (vv+)MDV, that cause earlier and more prolonged cytolytic infections compared to less virulent strains. In this report, it was found that vIL-8 mRNA expression in vivo was increased in very virulent (vv) and vv+MDV strains compared to mild (m) and virulent (v) strains, and could not be detected in two attenuated MDV strains examined using very sensitive real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assays. In order to identify potential mechanisms for the increased vIL-8 mRNA expression in more virulent strains, and lack thereof in attenuated strains, the vIL-8 gene and putative promoter sequences upstream of the vIL-8 gene were compared from 10 different MDV strains, including attenuated derivatives. Only the JM-16 strain (both non-attenuated and attenuated) and attenuated 584A (584Ap80C) encoded a predicted vIL-8 gene sequence different from all other strains examined. Within the putative vIL-8 gene promoter sequence, there was little difference among the non-attenuated strains; however significant deletions were identified in the attenuated JM-16/p71, Md11 (R2/23), and 584Ap80C strains. Additionally, these deletions were located within a previously hypothetical open reading frame (ORF) named LORF4. Rapid amplification of cDNA ends identified a full-length transcript of LORF4 in the MDV-transformed lymphoblastoid cell line MSB-1, and deletions within this ORF caused truncated predicted proteins in 4 out of 6 attenuated MDV strains examined.
KW - Attenuation
KW - Chicken
KW - LORF4
KW - Marek's disease virus
KW - qRT-PCR
KW - vIL-8
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1024447230464
DO - 10.1023/A:1024447230464
M3 - Article
C2 - 12876454
AN - SCOPUS:0042315429
SN - 0920-8569
VL - 26
SP - 255
EP - 269
JO - Virus Genes
JF - Virus Genes
IS - 3
ER -