Ohta M, Morita T, Shimotohno K
Virology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo.
Jpn J Cancer Res. 1990 May;81(5):440-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1990.tb02588.x.
The T-lymphocyte-specific tyrosine kinase gene, lck, is expressed in T-lymphocyte cell lines, except for several human T-cell leukemia virus type I(HTLV-I)-transformed T-lymphocyte cell lines, which produce HTLV-I. By introducing an lck-expression vector, we found that lck product suppresses gene expression from HTLV-I promoter in a transient assay. Moreover, various other promoters of cellular genes or viruses were found to have their transcriptional activity repressed by lck.
T淋巴细胞特异性酪氨酸激酶基因lck在T淋巴细胞系中表达,但不包括几种产生人类I型嗜T淋巴细胞病毒(HTLV-I)的HTLV-I转化的T淋巴细胞系。通过引入lck表达载体,我们发现在瞬时分析中lck产物可抑制HTLV-I启动子的基因表达。此外,还发现细胞基因或病毒的各种其他启动子的转录活性会被lck抑制。