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Sustained Expression of the Novel EBV-Induced Zinc Finger Gene, ZNFEB, Is Critical for the Transition of B Lymphocyte Activation to Oncogenic Growth This information is current as Transformation of September 25, 2021. Cathryn E. Tune, Marc Pilon, Yuriko Saiki and H.-Michael Dosch J Immunol 2002; 168:680-688; ; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.2.680 Downloaded from http://www.jimmunol.org/content/168/2/680 References This article cites 63 articles, 26 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/ http://www.jimmunol.org/content/168/2/680.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision • No Triage! Every submission reviewed by practicing scientists by guest on September 25, 2021 • Fast Publication! 4 weeks from acceptance to publication *average Subscription Information about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: http://jimmunol.org/subscription Permissions Submit copyright permission requests at: http://www.aai.org/About/Publications/JI/copyright.html Email Alerts Receive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at: http://jimmunol.org/alerts The Journal of Immunology is published twice each month by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc., 1451 Rockville Pike, Suite 650, Rockville, MD 20852 Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Immunologists All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0022-1767 Online ISSN: 1550-6606. Sustained Expression of the Novel EBV-Induced Zinc Finger Gene, ZNFEB, Is Critical for the Transition of B Lymphocyte Activation to Oncogenic Growth Transformation1 Cathryn E. Tune, Marc Pilon, Yuriko Saiki, and H.-Michael Dosch2 EBV is a human tumor virus that infects and establishes latency in the majority of humans worldwide. In vitro, EBV growth transforms primary B lymphocytes into lymphoblastoid cell lines with high efficiency. We have used cDNA subtraction cloning to identify cellular target genes required for growth transformation and identified a new C2H2 (Kru¨ppel-type) zinc finger gene, ZNFEB, that is trans-activated early following EBV infection. In this study, we characterize ZNFEB, including its intronless locus, and human and mouse protein variants. The gene is transiently expressed during normal lymphocyte activation, and its expression is sustained in EBV-positive but not EBV-negative B cell lines. There is limited expression in nonhemopoietic tissues. Its critical Downloaded from role in the growth transformation of B lineage cells is indicated by the abrogation of transformation with antisense strategies. ZNFEB maps to chromosome 18q12, a region with mutations in numerous, predominantly hemopoietic malignancies. The Journal of Immunology, 2002, 168: 680–688. complex series of cellular programs controls entry and and how they diverge toward oncogenic growth transformation. To exit from cell cycling in activated lymphocytes. Disrup- this end, subtractive hybridization has been employed to delineate http://www.jimmunol.org/ tions of critical checkpoints in these processes through genes induced in primary B lymphocytes (8) or EBV-negative A Ϫ 3 genomic accidents in cell cycle control loci represent a key onco- (EBV ) Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) cell lines freshly infected with genic event. In this study, we have used EBV as a model to analyze EBV. Several novel cellular genes associated with EBV-dependent the transition of lymphocyte activation to growth transformation growth transformation have been identified using this approach and identify a new zinc finger gene, ZNFEB, as a critical, cellular (9–12). target molecule exploited by the virus for the induction of B cell We used cDNA subtraction cloning in the discovery of ZNFEB. growth transformation. It is a new element in B lymphocyte activation responses that EBV EBV, the human herpesvirus 4, infects the majority of humans brings under viral control. Zinc finger proteins are usually DNA- and establishes latency in a small subset of the B lymphocyte com- binding transcription control proteins, and many function in cel- by guest on September 25, 2021 partment (1). In vitro, the virus activates B cells, triggering a clas- lular development and differentiation pathways. Members of this sical, calcium-dependent activation cascade that is prerequisite for, large protein family assume critical roles in cell cycle control, and but by itself insufficient for, subsequent growth transformation (2). their abnormal expression has been associated with the oncogenic Long-term growth transformation of the cells is associated with the transformation of host cells in which the protein resides. We be- coordinate expression of a selected repertoire of EBV-encoded lieve that ZNFEB may serve a similar function in the EBV-driven genes, collectively known as the latency genes. Similar processes growth transformation of B lymphocytes. Interestingly, the occur in vivo during acute infectious mononucleosis (3) and in genomic localization of ZNFEB at 18q12 maps to a region in which healthy virus carriers (4), and they almost certainly play a role in chromosomal aberrations have been found in numerous different the fulminant EBV-positive (EBVϩ) lymphomas of immunocom- malignancies, including many of the B lineage (Mitelman Data- promised patients (5) or susceptible nonhuman primates (6, 7). base of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer, http://cgap.nci.nih. Thus, the analysis of differentially expressed genes in EBV- gov/Chromosomes/Mitelman), suggesting that ZNFEB is a candi- infected B cells has the dual goal to elucidate cellular signaling date molecule involved in an even broader range of tumors. pathways involved in physiological B cell activation as well as those involved in B cell oncogenesis. It is important to understand which aspects of these two pathways overlap, and at what point Materials and Methods Subtractive hybridization and sequence analysis Except for the use of the Uni-ZAP XR vector (pBluescript phagemid; Strat- Division of Infection, Immunity, Injury, and Repair, The Hospital for Sick Children, agene, La Jolla, CA), the preparation of a subtraction library containing Toronto, Ontario, Canada cDNAs differentially expressed 6 h after EBV infection of normal tonsillar B cells in vitro was done as previously described (8). Briefly, purified Received for publication August 13, 2001. Accepted for publication November 12, 2001. mRNA of infected B cells was depleted of housekeeping transcripts through several cycles of hybridization to 20-fold excess of solid-phase The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page cDNAs from noninfected B cells of the same tonsil. The remaining tran- charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance scripts were cloned and plated at low density, and the inserts of randomly with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. 1 This work was supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. C.E.T. is the recipient of a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Doctoral Research Award. 2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. H.-Michael Dosch, Division of 3 Abbreviations used in this paper: BL, Burkitt’s lymphoma; EBNA, EBV nuclear Infection, Immunity, Injury, and Repair, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 Uni- Ag; EST, expressed sequence tag; hsp, heat shock protein; LCL, lymphoblastoid cell versity Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8. E-mail address: hmdosch@ line; LMP1, latent membrane protein 1; ORF, open reading frame; UTR, untranslated sickkids.on.ca region; ZNFEBsv, ZNFEB splice variant. Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Immunologists 0022-1767/02/$02.00 The Journal of Immunology 681 picked clones were directly amplified by PCR and sequenced on an auto- 2041A, 5Ј-CCAGTGCGGTTTTAATGTAGC-3Ј); ZNFEB splice variant mated DNA sequencer (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Mississauga, On- (ZNFEBsv 57, 5Ј-GATTTTTCTGGTGGTCTAGTC-3Ј and 2041A); EBV tario, Canada). nuclear Ag (EBNA)1 (109151, 5Ј-GTAGAAGGCCATTTTTCCAC-3Ј; and 109435A, 5Ј-TTTCTACGTGACTCCTAGCC-3Ј); -glucuronidase EB Cloning and chromosomal localization of ZNF (GUS 1355, 5Ј-GTGATGTGGTCTGTGGCCAA-3Ј; and 1657A, 5Ј-TCT GCTCCATACTCGCTCTG-3Ј); -actin (actin 2445, 5Ј-ACTCTTCCAGC In addition to the initial 257-bp ZNFEB cDNA clone isolated from the CTTCCTTCC-3Ј; and 3011A, 5Ј-TCATAGTCCGCCTAGAAGCA-3Ј). subtraction library, seven overlapping cDNA clones were used to deduce The ZNFEB 67 sequence is present in both ZNFEB and ZNFEBsv. The the complete open reading frame (ORF) of ZNFEB. Two expressed se- ZNFEB 41 primer is specific for sequences that flank the extra exon in quence tags (ESTs) were obtained from the American Type Culture Col- ZNFEBsv, while the ZNFEBsv 57 primer is specific for sequences within lection (Manassas, VA). EST1 (I.M.A.G.E. CloneID 648205) (13) was this extra exon, and thus each will differentiate between splice variants as isolated from a human teratocarcinoma cDNA library (Stratagene), and well as genomic DNA. RT-PCR products were electrophoretically sepa- EST2 (ATCC 157317) was isolated from a Jurkat T cell cDNA library. ϩ rated. Where indicated, gels were blotted to Hybond-N membranes Additional clones were identified in a Jurkat T cell cDNA library (Strat- (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) and hybridized with the following ␥-32P- agene) and a human thymus gt11 cDNA library (gifts of E. Arpaia, The end-labeled reporter probes (23, 24): ZNFEB and ZNFEBsv (ZNFEB 1858, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada). The chromosomal 5Ј-CCATTGTGGAGAAGACAGTC-3Ј);