Minamitani Takeharu, Ma Yijie, Zhou Hufeng, Kida Hiroshi, Tsai Chao-Yuan, Obana Masanori, Okuzaki Daisuke, Fujio Yasushi, Kumanogoh Atsushi, Zhao Bo, Kikutani Hitoshi, Kieff Elliott, Gewurz Benjamin E, Yasui Teruhito
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Immunity, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health, and Nutrition, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan 567-0085.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Woman's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 May 2;114(18):4751-4756. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701836114. Epub 2017 Mar 28.
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a major cause of immunosuppression-related B-cell lymphomas and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). In these malignancies, EBV latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) and LMP2A provide infected B cells with surrogate CD40 and B-cell receptor growth and survival signals. To gain insights into their synergistic in vivo roles in germinal center (GC) B cells, from which most EBV-driven lymphomas arise, we generated a mouse model with conditional GC B-cell LMP1 and LMP2A coexpression. LMP1 and LMP2A had limited effects in immunocompetent mice. However, upon T- and NK-cell depletion, LMP1/2A caused massive plasmablast outgrowth, organ damage, and death. RNA-sequencing analyses identified EBV oncoprotein effects on GC B-cell target genes, including up-regulation of multiple proinflammatory chemokines and master regulators of plasma cell differentiation. LMP1/2A coexpression also up-regulated key HL markers, including CD30 and mixed hematopoietic lineage markers. Collectively, our results highlight synergistic EBV membrane oncoprotein effects on GC B cells and provide a model for studies of their roles in immunosuppression-related lymphoproliferative diseases.
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