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. 2020 Aug 20;529(2):494-499.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.04.147. Epub 2020 Jul 2.

Enhanced oncolytic activity of E4orf6-deficient adenovirus by facilitating nuclear export of HuR

Ishraque Ahmed  1 , Mohammad Towfik Alam  2 , Aya Yanagawa-Matsuda  3 , Elora Hossain  1 , Tetsuya Kitamura  3 , Kazuyuki Minowa  4 , Fumihiro Higashino  5
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Enhanced oncolytic activity of E4orf6-deficient adenovirus by facilitating nuclear export of HuR

Ishraque Ahmed et al. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. .

Abstract

An AU-rich element (ARE) is RNA element that enhances the rapid decay of mRNA. The RNA binding protein HuR stabilizes ARE-mRNA by exporting it to the cytoplasm. In most of cancer cells, HuR is exported to the cytoplasm and ARE-mRNA is stabilized. In addition, the viral gene product E4orf6 exports HuR to stabilize ARE-mRNA in adenovirus-infected cells and the stabilization is required for full virus replication. Previously we showed the oncolytic activity of E4orf6-deleted adenovirus dl355, which can replicate in cancer cells where ARE-mRNA is stabilized. In this study, we examined whether the further enhancement of HuR export can stimulate the replication and the oncolytic activity of dl355. We found that ethanol treatment promoted the cytoplasmic relocalization of HuR in cancer cells. In addition, the replication efficiency of dl355 increased in ethanol-treated cells, and in response, the cytolytic activity of the virus also increased in vitro and in vivo. Upregulation of a cleaved-PARP level in infected cells mediated by ethanol is suggesting that ethanol activated the apoptosis induced by dl355. IVa2 mRNA, the only ARE-mRNA among transcripts of adenovirus was augmented by ethanol treatment. These data indicate that the enhancement of ARE-mRNA stabilization as a result of ethanol treatment upregulates the oncolytic activity of dl355 and suggests that the combined use of an oncolytic adenovirus and ethanol treatment may be a good strategy for cancer therapy.

Keywords: AU-Rich element; E4orf6; Ethanol; HuR; Oncolytic adenovirus.

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