ArticleViruses2022
A Viral Long Non-Coding RNA Protects against Cell Death during Human Cytomegalovirus Infection of CD14+ Monocytes.
Article in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Long Non-Coding RNA Encoded by Infectious Bronchitis Virus Facilitates Viral Replication via Direct Interaction with G3BP2 and Expression Regulation of a Novel Host MicroRNA.Veterinary sciences · 2026Article
- Cytomegalovirus latency-the sum of subtleties.Journal of virology · 2025Review
- Human cytomegalovirus RNA2.7 inhibits ferroptosis by upregulating ferritin and GSH via promoting ZNF395 degradation.PLoS pathogens · 2024Article
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- Shaping the host cell environment with viral noncoding RNAs.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2023Review
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- Functional and molecular dissection of HCMV long non-coding RNAs.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- High-Risk Oncogenic Human Cytomegalovirus.Viruses · 2022Review
- The Human Cytomegalovirus β2.7 Long Non-Coding RNA Prevents Induction of Reactive Oxygen Species to Maintain Viral Gene Silencing during Latency.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Human Cytomegalovirus Induced Aberrant Expression of Non-coding RNAs.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Long non-coding RNA β2.7 is the most highly transcribed viral gene during latent human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection. However, as yet, no function has ever been ascribed to β2.7 during HCMV latency. Here we show that β2.7 protects against apoptosis induced by high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in infected monocytes, which routinely support latent HCMV infection. Monocytes infected with a wild-type (WT) virus, but not virus deleted for the β2.7 gene (Δβ2.7), are protected against mitochondrial stress and subsequent apoptosis. Protected monocytes display lower levels of ROS and additionally, stress-induced death in the absence of β2.7 can be reversed by an antioxidant which reduces ROS levels. Furthermore, we show that infection with WT but not Δβ2.7 virus results in strong upregulation of a cellular antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2) in CD14+ monocytes. These observations identify a role for the β2.7 viral transcript, the most abundantly expressed viral RNA during latency but for which no latency-associated function has ever been ascribed, and demonstrate a novel way in which HCMV protects infected monocytes from pro-death signals to optimise latent carriage.
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