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  • Title: Binding of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus K-bZIP to interferon-responsive factor 3 elements modulates antiviral gene expression.
    Author: Lefort S, Soucy-Faulkner A, Grandvaux N, Flamand L.
    Journal: J Virol; 2007 Oct; 81(20):10950-60. PubMed ID: 17652396.
    Abstract:
    Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus encodes numerous regulatory proteins capable of modulating viral and cellular gene expression and affecting host cell functions. K-bZIP, a leucine zipper-containing transcription factor encoded by ORFK8, is one such protein. During infection, transcription of the ORFK8 early gene is turned on by the immediate-early replication and transcription factor activator (RTA). One described function of the K-bZIP nuclear protein is to interact with and repress RTA-mediated transactivation of viral promoters, including that of the K8 gene. In the present work, we provide evidence that the expression of K-bZIP results in the activation of the ifn-beta gene. Of interest, ifn-beta gene activation by K-bZIP is independent of interferon (IFN)-responsive factor 3 (IRF-3) and nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation. Using a DNA binding affinity assay and electromobility shift assay, we report that K-bZIP binds efficiently to the PRDIII-I region of the beta IFN (IFN-beta) promoter, and, in doing so, it prevents the attachment of activated IRF-3 but not that of NF-kappaB or ATF2/c-Jun to the IFN-beta promoter sequence. As a consequence, ifn-beta gene activation in response to IFN inducers such as Sendai virus infection or expression of retinoic acid-inducible gene I, mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein, or TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK-1) is severely impaired (>90%) by the presence of K-bZIP. K-bZIP also prevents the activation of RANTES and CXCL11, whose promoters are also regulated by IRF-3. Lysine 158 (target for SUMO conjugation), threonine 111, and serine 167 (targets for phosphorylation) mutants of K-bZIP were equally effective as wild-type K-bZIP in mediating the repression of TBK-1-activated ifn-beta gene expression. Lastly, the overexpression of CREB binding protein could not reverse the K-bZIP repression of TBK-1-activated ifn-beta gene expression. In all, our results indicate that K-bZIP binds directly to the PRDIII-I region of the IFN-beta promoter and, as a consequence, causes a low level of ifn-beta gene transcription. In doing so, K-bZIP prevents IRF-3 from binding to the IFN-beta promoter and precludes the formation of the enhanceosome, which is required for maximal ifn-beta gene transcription. A new role for K-bZIP as a protein involved in immune evasion is therefore uncovered.
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