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. 1994 Jan;68(1):346–351. doi: 10.1128/jvi.68.1.346-351.1994

A single chicken anemia virus protein induces apoptosis.

M H Noteborn 1, D Todd 1, C A Verschueren 1, H W de Gauw 1, W L Curran 1, S Veldkamp 1, A J Douglas 1, M S McNulty 1, A J van der EB 1, G Koch 1
PMCID: PMC236294  PMID: 8254747

Abstract

Chicken anemia virus (CAV) causes cytopathogenic effects in chicken thymocytes and cultured transformed mononuclear cells via apoptosis. Early after infection of chicken mononuclear cells, the CAV-encoded protein VP3 exhibits a finely granular distribution within the nucleus. At a later stage after infection, VP3 forms aggregates. At this point, the cell becomes apoptotic and the cellular DNA is fragmented and condensed. By immunogold electron microscopy VP3 was shown to be associated with apoptotic structures. In vitro, expression of VP3 induced apoptosis in chicken lymphoblastoid T cells and myeloid cells, which are susceptible to CAV infection, but not in chicken embryo fibroblasts, which are not susceptible to CAV. Expression of a C-terminally truncated VP3 induced much less pronounced apoptosis in the chicken lymphoblastoid T cells.

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