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  • Title: Rearranged JC virus noncoding control regions found in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy patient samples increase virus early gene expression and replication rate.
    Author: Gosert R, Kardas P, Major EO, Hirsch HH.
    Journal: J Virol; 2010 Oct; 84(20):10448-56. PubMed ID: 20686041.
    Abstract:
    Polyomavirus JC (JCV) infects ∼ 60% of the general population, followed by asymptomatic urinary shedding in ∼ 20%. In patients with pronounced immunodeficiency, including HIV/AIDS, JCV can cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a devastating brain disease of high mortality. While JCV in the urine of healthy people has a linear noncoding control region called the archetype NCCR (at-NCCR), JCV in brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of PML patients bear rearranged NCCRs (rr-NCCRs). Although JCV NCCR rearrangements are deemed pathognomonic for PML, their role as a viral determinant is unclear. We sequenced JCV NCCRs found in CSF of eight HIV/AIDS patients newly diagnosed with PML and analyzed their effect on early and late gene expression using a bidirectional reporter vector recapitulating the circular polyomavirus early and late gene organization. The rr-NCCR sequences were highly diverse, but all increased viral early reporter gene expression in progenitor-derived astrocytes, glia-derived cells, and human kidney compared to the expression levels with the at-NCCR. The expression of simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen or HIV Tat expression in trans was associated with a strong increase of at-NCCR-controlled early gene expression, while rr-NCCRs were less responsive. The insertion of rr-NCCRs into the JCV genome backbone revealed higher viral replication rates for rr-NCCR compared to those of the at-NCCR JCV in human progenitor-derived astrocytes or glia cells, which was abrogated in SV40 large T-expressing COS-7 cells. We conclude that naturally occurring JCV rr-NCCR variants from PML patients confer increased early gene expression and higher replication rates compared to those of at-NCCR JCV and thereby increase cytopathology.
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