Acetylated histone H3 and H4 mark the upregulated LMP2A promoter of Epstein-Barr virus in lymphoid cells

Borbala Gerle, Anita Koroknai, György Fejer, Agnes Bakos, Ferenc Banati, Kalman Szenthe, Hans Wolf, Hans Helmut Niller, Janos Minarovits, Daniel Salamon*

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Abstract

We analyzed the levels of acetylated histones and histone H3 dimethylated on lysine 4 (H3K4me2) at the LMP2A promoter (LMP2Ap) of Epstein-Barr virus in well-characterized type I and type III lymphoid cell line pairs and additionally in the nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line C666-1 by using chromatin immunoprecipitation. We found that enhanced levels of acetylated histones marked the upregulated LMP2Ap in lymphoid cells. In contrast, in C666-1 cells, the highly DNA-methylated, inactive LMP2Ap was also enriched in acetylated histones and H3K4me2. Our results suggest that the combinatorial effects of DNA methylation, histone acetylation, and H3K4me2 modulate the activity of LMP2Ap.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)13242-13247
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Virology
Volume81
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2007
Externally publishedYes

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