CCR4, HTLV-1 infection, and ATL oncogenesis
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- YOSHIE Osamu
- Department of Microbiology, Kinki University School of Medicine
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- ケモカイン受容体CCR4とHTLV-1感染,ATL発がん
- ケモカイン ジュヨウタイ CCR4 ト HTLV 1 カンセン ATL ハツガン
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Description
Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is a malignancy of mature CD4+ T cells that is etiologically associated with the infection of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), an exogenous human retrovirus. Previously, we have shown that leukemic cells of most ATL patients express CCR4, a chemokine receptor known to be selectively expressed by T cell subsets such as Th2 cells, skin-homing memory/effector T cells, and regulatory T cells. Therefore, the expression of CCR4 suggests that ATL cells are mostly derived from one of these T cell subsets. We have also shown that Tax, the HTLV-1-encoded potent transcriptional activator, strongly induces the expression of CCL22, a CCR4 ligand, which promotes the cell-dependent transmission of HTLV-1 from HTLV-1-infected T cells to CCR4+ target T cells by inducing close cell-to-cell interactions. We have also shown that ATL cells aberrantly express the AP-1 family member Fra-2 which, by forming the heterodimer with JunD, potently induces the expression of not only CCR4 but also the genes such as c-Myb, MDM2 and Bcl-6, the well-known proto-oncogenes. Thus, Fra-2 is a novel oncogene of ATL, and CCR4 may be regarded as a useful tumor marker of ATL.
Journal
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- Uirusu
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Uirusu 58 (2), 125-140, 2008
The Japanese Society for Virology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282680054273664
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- NII Article ID
- 10023888213
- 130004470913
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- NII Book ID
- AN00018808
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- COI
- 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1MXksFaruro%3D
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- ISSN
- 18843433
- 00426857
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- NDL BIB ID
- 9762881
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- PubMed
- 19374191
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- Text Lang
- ja
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