Compiler Technology for Parallel Scientific Computation

Özturan, Can; Sinharoy, Balaram; Szymański, Bolesław K.

doi:10.1155/1994/243495

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Latent membrane protein 1 associated signaling pathways are important in tumor cells of Epstein-Barr virus negative Hodgkin's disease

Knecht¹,

Berger²,

McQuain³

et al. 1999

Oncogene

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The latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) oncogene of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is selectively expressed in the Reed-Sternberg (RS) cells of EBV-associated Hodgkin's disease (HD). However, no dierences in clinical presentation and course are found between EBV positive and EBV negative forms of HD suggesting a common pathogenetic mechanism. We have studied the LMP1 associated signaling pathways and their dominant negative inhibition in the myelomonocytic HD-MyZ and the B-lymphoid L-428 HD cell lines. In both EBV negative cell lines expression of LMP1 is associated with the formation of multinuclear RS cells. Dominant negative inhibition of NF-kB mediated signaling at the step of IkB-a phosphorylation results in increased cell death with only a few typical RS cells resistant to overexpression of the dominant negative inhibitor IkB-a-ND54. However, dominant negative inhibition of NF-kB mediated signaling at the early step of TRAF2 interaction results in the formation of multinuclear cells in both cell lines and, in addition, in clusters of small mononuclear cells in the HD-MyZ cell line. In HD-MyZ cells overexpression of the powerful JBD-inhibitor of the JNK signal transduction pathway is restricted to small cells and never observed in RS cells. These small cells undergo apoptosis as shown by the TUNEL technique. Apoptosis of small cells is still observed after cotransfection of JBD and LMP1 but in addition a few apoptotic HD-MyZ cells with large fused nuclear masses are identi®ed suggesting that speci®c inhibition of JNK leads also to apoptosis of LMP1 induced RS cells. Thus, activation of the JNK signaling pathway is also important in the formation of Reed-Sternberg cells. Our ®ndings are consistent with a model where all three LMP1 associated functions, i.e. NF-kB mediated transcription, TRAF2 dependent signaling, and c-Jun activation act as a common pathogenetic denominator of both EBV negative and EBV positive HD.

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