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. 1991 Apr;65(4):1991-9.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.65.4.1991-1999.1991.

Nuclear factor 1 activates the feline leukemia virus long terminal repeat but is posttranscriptionally down-regulated in leukemia cell lines

M Plumb  1 , R Fulton, L Breimer, M Stewart, K Willison, J C Neil
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Nuclear factor 1 activates the feline leukemia virus long terminal repeat but is posttranscriptionally down-regulated in leukemia cell lines

M Plumb et al. J Virol. 1991 Apr.

Abstract

A recombinant feline leukemia virus (FeLV) proviral clone (T17T-22) with a long terminal repeat (LTR) which differs from prototype FeLV by a point mutation within a conserved nuclear factor 1 (NF1)-binding motif in the LTR enhancer domain was found to be poorly expressed after DNA transfection. The NF1 point mutation reduced in vitro protein binding as assessed by gel shift analysis and reduced promoter activity significantly (2- to 10-fold). However, the degree of promoter impairment due to the NF1 site mutation varied according to cell type and was least severe in a feline leukemia cell line (T3) which had low levels of nuclear NF1 DNA-binding activity. Low NF1 DNA-binding activity was observed in three FeLV-induced leukemia cell lines (T3, T17, and FL74) and in murine F9 embryonal carcinoma cells. While similar levels of NF1 gene mRNA transcripts were detected in all cell lines, Western immunoblot analysis of F9, T17, and FL74 but not T3 nuclear extracts revealed very low levels of nuclear NF1 protein. These results indicate that NF1 activity is down-regulated in FeLV-induced leukemia cells by diverse posttranscriptional mechanisms. We suggest that NF1 down-regulation may be an important characteristic of target cells susceptible to FeLV transformation in vivo and may provide the selective pressure which favors duplication of the LTR core enhancer sequence in T-cell leukemogenic FeLV variants.

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