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Human Cytomegalovirus RNAs Immunoprecipitated by Multiple Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Antisera

Pat C. W. Lord^1,

Richard T. DeRose^1,>

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology
and² Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 300 South Hawthorne Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103, U.S.A.

The association of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) RNAs with ribonucleoprotein particles that react with antibodies from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus was tested by immunoprecipitation with multiple patients' sera. A major late 2.8 kb RNA and several minor RNAs encoded by the HCMV long repeat region were immunoprecipitated from HCMV-infected cells by La, Ro and, much less abundantly, Sm autoimmune antisera. The exact location of these RNAs was determined by high resolution R-loop mapping and found to be between 0.8093 and 0.8189 map units. The 2.8 kb RNA is polyadenylated and associated with polysomes but does not appear to be spliced. Immunoprecipitation was not seen using normal or other autoimmune antisera. In addition, immunoprecipitation was specific to these RNAs in that other abundant HCMV RNAs were not immunoprecipitated. It was also found that the addition of increasing amounts of purified La antigen to infected cell lysates inhibited immunoprecipitation of the 2.8 kb RNA by La antiserum. The data suggest that specific HCMV RNAs may interact with cellular ribonucleoproteins known to be involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

Keywords: HCMV, SLE

Present address: Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612, U.S.A.

^> Present address: Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843, U.S.A.

Received 12 December 1988; accepted 5 May 1989.

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