Project description:RATIONALE: The Epstein Barr virus can cause cancer and lymphoproliferative disorders. Ganciclovir is an antiviral drug that acts against the Epstein Barr virus. Arginine butyrate may make virus cells more sensitive to ganciclovir. Combining ganciclovir and arginine butyrate may kill more Epstein Barr virus cells and tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of arginine butyrate plus ganciclovir in treating patients who have cancer or lymphoproliferative disorders that are associated with the Epstein Barr virus.
Project description:Epstein-Barr virus is associated with several human malignancies, including Burkitt Lymnphoma. The virus encodes more than 40 microRNAs, which participate in its possible pathogenetic role. We used microarrays to study the effect of the expression of an Epstein-Barr virus-encoded microRNA (ebv-BART6-3p) on the global gene expression profile of Burkitt Lymphoma cell lines.
Project description:Epstein-Barr virus positive Burkitt's lymphoma cell line Akata (+) and it's EBV-depleted subclone Akata (-) were analyzed for human circRNA expression.
Project description:Comparsion of cellular gene expression between a control B lymphoma cell-line (BJAB pz2) stably transfected with an empty vector and a BJAB cell-line stably expressing Epstein-Barr virus EBNA 3C (BJAB E3C-4). These cell lines are described in Wang, F., C. Gregory, C. Sample, M. Rowe, D. Liebowitz, R. Murray, A. Rickinson, and E. Kieff. 1990. Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein (LMP1) and nuclear proteins 2 and 3C are effectors of phenotypic changes in B lymphocytes: EBNA-2 and LMP1 cooperatively induce CD23. J Virol 64:2309-2318)
Project description:Epstein-Barr virus has been reported to regulate cellular microRNA expression in B cells. In the present study, we investigated the differential microRNAs modulated by Epstein-Barr virus in Naspharyngeal Carcinoma, using CapitalBio corporation's mammalian miRNA arrays. Three cellular models were used in this study: the human naspharyngeal carcinoma cell line TW03 as a blank control; TW03 transfected with Epstein-Barr virus encoded LMP1; TW03 transfected with Epstein-Barr virus encoded LMP2A
Project description:MicroRNAs expression profile was acquired in 99 frozen tissues corresponding to 14 Burkitt's lymphoma, 17 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, 29 follicular lymphoma, 19 mantle cell lymphoma, 8 primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma and 12 lymph nodes. Additionally, we performed microRNA expression profile of 14 Burkitts' lymphoma cell lines, 2 mantle cell lymphoma cell lines, 5 acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell preparations, 5 samples of mononucleosis cells, 4 Epstein Barr virus infected lymphoblastoid cell lines (EBV), 27 purified samples of B cells at different stage of development (13 GC-CD23-/CD39-, 11 GC-CD5- and 3 GC-CD5+), 4 peripheral blood CD19+ B cells, 4 purified samples of T cells (2 CD4+ and 2 CD8+) and 2 samples of bone marrow CD34+ cells. The data were used to discriminate among diverse pathological and nonpathological samples and to identify microRNAs expression differences between pathological samples and their nonpathological counterparts.
Project description:Gene expression profile of splenic B cells (CD19+) from transgenic mice expressing the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane proteins (LMP) 1 and/or LMP2A. Freshly harvested primary B cells were profiled. B lymphocytes from transgenic LMP1, LMP2A, LMP1/2A mice and negative littermates were profiled from 6 month old adult mice; lymphoma cells were passaged in SCID mice and profiled for three LMP1 positive lymphomas and one negative lymphoma.
Project description:<p>Following infection of B cells, Epstein Barr virus (EBV) engages host pathways that mediate cell proliferation and transformation, contributing to the propensity of the virus to drive immune dysregulation and lymphomagenesis. We found that the EBV protein EBNA2 initiates NAD <em>de novo</em> biosynthesis by driving expression of the host metabolic enzyme IDO1. Virus-enforced NAD production sustained mitochondrial complex I activity, to match ATP-production with bioenergetic requirements of proliferation and transformation. In transplant patients, IDO1 expression in EBV-infected B cells, and a serum signature of increased IDO1 activity, preceded development of lymphoma. In humanized mice infected with EBV, IDO1 inhibition reduced both viremia and lymphomagenesis. Virus-orchestrated NAD biosynthesis is thus a druggable metabolic vulnerability of EBV-driven B cell transformation – opening therapeutic possibilities for EBV-related diseases.</p>
Project description:Burkitt lymphoma cells can be latently infected with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The virus may be activated into its lytic cycle by small molecules, such as sodium butyrate. Other molecules, such as valproate and valpromide, block viral lytic reactivation. These pharmacological agents alter the cellular physiology that controls viral lytic gene expression. Changes in the cellular transcription were measured in response to one activator and two inhibitors of the Epstein-Barr virus lytic cycle in order to identify cellular genes that are potential regulators of the viral life cycle.
Project description:Capture-based whole-genome sequencing of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was performed in hematological malignancies such as EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, and chronic active EBV infection.
