Sequence variations of Epstein–Barr virus LMP1 gene in gastric cancer and chronic gastritis isolates from Iranian patients EBV LMP1 variations in GC and chronic gastritis patients
Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Bed to Bench,
Vol. 15 No. 3 (2022),
20 June 2022
https://doi.org/10.22037/ghfbb.v15i3.2578
Abstract
Aim: The current study aimed to investigate sequence variations in the C-terminus of latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) isolates from Iranian patients with chronic gastritis or gastric cancer (GC).
Background: LMP1 is the essential viral oncoprotein that is a key element in the immortalization of B cells. It contains a small twenty-four amino acid cytoplasmic N-terminal region, six transmembrane segments, and a two hundred amino acid cytoplasmic C-terminal domain. Most LMP1-mediated signal transduction events are moderated by some functional parts of the cytoplasmic C-terminal domain.
Methods: Thirty-two EBV positive biopsy tissues were obtained from patients with gastric cancer and patients with chronic gastritis. The C-terminal nucleotide sequences of LMP1 were amplified using nested-PCR and analyzed by DNA sequencing.
Results Four to eight copies of the 11 repeat elements (codon 254–302) were observed in the carboxyl-terminal site of patients, but no relationship was found between the number of repeat sequences and disease status. The 30-bp deletion corresponding to codon 345–354 of the B95-8 strain was observed in 34% of isolates, and the remaining samples were non-deleted. In the gastric cancer group, a higher number of 33-bp repeats (≥5 repeats) was observed in 30-bp-deletion (100%) than in non-deleted (42%) isolates, and the difference was statistically significant. Analysis revealed that a gastritis isolate may be the result of recombination between Alaskan and China1 strains.
Conclusion: Overall, the current results showed no association between C-terminal sequence variations of LMP1 and malignant or non-malignant isolate origin.
- EBV
- latent membrane protein 1
- sequence variations
- repeat elements
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