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. 1989 Jul;8(7):1953–1958. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1989.tb03600.x

Transient induction of IL-2 receptor in cultured T cell lines by HTLV-1 LTR-linked tax-1 gene.

T Doi 1, M Hatakeyama 1, S Itoh 1, T Taniguchi 1
PMCID: PMC401056  PMID: 2792077

Abstract

Human lymphotropic virus, HTLV-1, encodes in its proviral genome a transcriptional activator protein, tax-1, that may be responsible for the development of virus-induced adult T cell leukemia (ATL), possibly through the aberrant activation of the genes for interleukin-2 (IL-2) and one of its receptor (IL-2R) components, the IL-2 receptor alpha-chain (IL-2R alpha). In the present study, an expression plasmid containing tax-1 cDNA under the control of HTLV-1 LTR was introduced into mouse and human CD4-positive T cell lines. Analysis of the established cell clones revealed a number of interesting features: (i) a limited fraction of the total cell population (less than 25% in each clone) was positive for IL-2R alpha; (ii) the IL-2R alpha expression was not permanent, as the IL-2R alpha positive and negative cells could convert either way. The experimental data suggest that the observed heterogeneity in IL-2R alpha expression in the transformants is due to a cell-cycle-regulated expression and function of tax-1. Furthermore, a proportion of the induced IL-2R in EL-4 was in high-affinity form, suggesting the association of the IL-2R alpha and the IL-2R beta chain (p70-75) components.

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