Alazard Nathalie, Gruffat Henri, Hiriart Edwige, Sergeant Alain, Manet Evelyne
Unité de Virologie Humaine, U412 INSERM, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.
J Virol. 2003 Jul;77(14):8166-72. doi: 10.1128/jvi.77.14.8166-8172.2003.
Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2) is a transcriptional activator involved in the immortalization of B lymphocytes by the virus. EBNA2 is targeted to the promoters of its responsive genes, via interaction with cellular DNA-binding proteins. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation assays, we show for the first time the conditional recruitment of EBNA2 on two specific viral promoters in vivo and demonstrate a correlation between this recruitment and a local change in the acetylation of histones H3 and H4, which is promoter dependent.
爱泼斯坦-巴尔病毒核抗原2(EBNA2)是一种转录激活因子,参与该病毒对B淋巴细胞的永生化过程。EBNA2通过与细胞DNA结合蛋白相互作用,靶向其反应基因的启动子。利用染色质免疫沉淀分析,我们首次在体内证明了EBNA2在两个特定病毒启动子上的条件性募集,并证明这种募集与组蛋白H3和H4乙酰化的局部变化之间存在相关性,且这种变化依赖于启动子。