Tax unleashed : fulminant Tax-positive Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma after failed allogeneic stem cell transplantation

The human retrovirus HTLV-1 causes Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL), a malignant lymphoproliferative disease of CD4+ T cells of dismal prognosis, in 3-5% of the 20 million infected individuals (Proietti et al.(1) and Bazarbachi et al.(2)). Infection with HTLV-1 represents a prototypical model of virus-mediated oncogenesis by virtue of the viral transactivator Tax, a potent oncogenic protein that exerts pleiotropic effects through its ability to deregulate the transcription of various cellular genes and signal transduction pathways and inhibit DNA repair enzymes, which are critical for T-cell homeostasis and genetic stability (Matsuoka and Jeang(3)) (et Boxus Retrovirology 2009). However, the oncogenic potential of Tax remains a conundrum. Tax protein expression is undetectable using conventional methods in freshly harvested ATLL cells and in non-malignant infected CD4+ T cells (Furukawa et al.(4)) but is up regulated after only a few hours of culture in vitro (Hanon et al.(5)). These observations strongly suggest that a host-derived mechanism is able to either actively repress the transcription of viral proteins in vivo or refrain the emergence of Tax-expressing cells, which would have a growth advantage. We report herein a unique case of CD4+ T-cell leukemia highly expressing Tax following rejection of an allogenic peripheral blood stem cell graft for an HTLV-1 associated lymphoma.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

Erschienen:

2009

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

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Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 46(2009), 4 vom: 20. Dez., Seite 378-80

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ghez, David [VerfasserIn]
Renand, Amédée [VerfasserIn]
Lepelletier, Yves [VerfasserIn]
Sibon, David [VerfasserIn]
Suarez, Felipe [VerfasserIn]
Rubio, Marie-Thérèse [VerfasserIn]
Delarue, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Buzyn, Agnès [VerfasserIn]
Beljord, Kheira [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Yuetsu [VerfasserIn]
Varet, Bruno [VerfasserIn]
Hermine, Olivier [VerfasserIn]

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Case Reports
Gene Products, tax
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Date Completed 19.01.2010

Date Revised 09.11.2009

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcv.2009.07.020

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NLM192116150