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Department of Microbiology, Osaka University Medical School, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan1
Department of Pathology2 and Institute of Infectious Diseases3, University of Milan, L. Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy
Author for correspondence: Koichi Yamanishi. Fax +81 6 6879 3329. e-mail yamanisi{at}micro.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
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In general, viral gene products influence the normal expression of cellular genes. One such example of altered gene expression is the down-regulation of the major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) at the cell surface. This has been well studied in cells that have been infected or transfected with adenovirus (Andersson et al., 1985
; Burgert & Kvist, 1985
), herpes simplex virus (HSV) (Jennings et al., 1985
), human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) (Jones et al., 1996
; Lehner et al., 1997
; Wiertz et al., 1996
), murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) (Campbell & Slater, 1994
) and HIV (Schwartz et al., 1996
).
Our first attempt was to demonstrate the decrease of MHC-I expression in cells infected with KSHV as well as cells transfected with K5 gene. We previously reported that K5 is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) resident protein (Haque et al., 2000
). Since ER resident proteins of other viruses have been shown to down-regulate MHC-I molecules, we designed experiments to examine whether the K5 gene product could down-regulate MHC-I molecules. BC-3 cells treated with TPA for 6, 12 and 24 h, and HeLa cells at 24 h post-transfection, were harvested and processed for FACS analysis with a fluorescent isothiocyanate (FITC)-labelled anti-HLA-A, B, C monoclonal antibody (MAb), W6/32 (Dako). Using MAb to K5 protein (Haque et al., 2000
), we first examined the cells by immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) test. As shown in Fig. 1(A)
, about 1015% of the cells expressed the K5 protein by 6 h after treatment with 20 ng/ml TPA (Fig. 1A
, panel a). The percentage of positive cells increased to 4050% by 12 h (Fig. 1A
, panel b) and almost all cells were positive 24 h after treatment (Fig. 1A
, panel c). We then used FACS analysis to examine the level of MHC-I expression on the cell surface. The peak with the highest relative intensity of fluorescence on the surface was observed with untreated BC-3 cells [Fig. 1B
, BC-3 TPA(-)], but the peak shifted to low intensity with the TPA-treated BC-3 cells. The decrease of MHC-I on the cell surface of TPA-treated BC-3 cells was observed 6 h after treatment with TPA, and this decrease continued until 24 h in a kinetic fashion. When Ramos cells (a B-cell-derived cell-line used as a negative control) were treated with TPA, there was no shift of peak, as in the untreated sample (data not shown). These results indicated that some KSHV genes might be involved in down-regulation of MHC-I molecules. In order to identify a specific gene, we examined (by FACS analysis) HeLa cells that were transiently transfected with the K5 gene. The KSHV K5 gene fragment was amplified by PCR using primers with NheI and XhoI restriction sites at the 5' and 3' end respectively. The amplified fragment was digested with the enzyme, and then inserted into pcDNA3.1(+)/Zeo (Invitrogen) to create plasmid pcDNA3.1-K5. One day before transfection, HeLa cells (5x105) were seeded onto 60 mm dishes containing sterile glass coverslips and incubated at 37 °C in a 5% CO2 incubator. They were transfected with the expression plasmid, pcDNA3.1-K5, using SuperFect Transfection Reagent (Qiagen), according to the manufacturers instruction. HeLa cells were also transfected with a vector pcDNA3.1 as a negative control (HeLa-3.1 in Fig. 1B
). At 24 h post-transfection, cells were washed with PBS, fixed with 2% paraformaldehyde for 20 min and permeabilized by 0·2% Triton-X 100 for 5 min; expression of K5 was then detected as described for IFA. When HeLa cells were stained with the MAb to K5 24 h after transfection, 6070% of the cells expressed the K5 antigen (Fig. 1A
, panel d), suggesting a relatively high transfection efficiency. Two peaks with low and high relative intensities of fluorescence were observed on the surface of HeLa-K5 cells, while only one peak, which had a high intensity of fluorescence, was observed on the untreated cells (Fig. 1B
, right-hand panels). These findings indicated that the reduction of MHC-I expression on the cell surface was mediated by expression of the K5 gene and this effect was more prominent in the K5-transfected HeLa cells.
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It is interesting and important that such a phenomenon can be found in vivo. Results of immunohistochemical staining suggested that K5 antigen may be expressed in cells infected with KSHV during reactivation, and also may down-regulate MHC-I expression in vivo. In conclusion, we have demonstrated that the KSHV-encoded K5 protein down-regulates MHC-I molecules in KSHV-infected cells and have also detected expression of K5 antigen in vivo.
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Received 25 October 2000;
accepted 8 January 2001.
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