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[Cancer Research 60, 1845-1848, April 1, 2000]
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Nuclear Factor-{kappa}B Activation Is Involved in LMP1-mediated Transformation and Tumorigenesis of Rat-1 Fibroblasts1

Zhimin He, Baozhong Xin, Xinhai Yang, Ching-ping Chan and Liang Cao2

Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China


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The mechanism of latent membrane protein LMP1 of EBV in inducing cell transformation and tumorigenesis was investigated in Rat-1 fibroblasts. A plasmid encoding a site-specific mutant of LMP1 defective in binding to tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated death domain protein was constructed. This LMP1TRADD gene is 75% defective in nuclear factor (NF)-{kappa}B activation and 100% defective in activator protein-1 activation. When introduced into Rat-1 cells through retrovirus, the Rat-1-LMP1TRADD cells showed a significant reduction of focus formation and decreased tumor growth in nude mice as compared with Rat-1-LMP1 cells, suggesting that NF-{kappa}B or activator protein-1 activation may be important for LMP1-induced cell transformation. To further delineate the determinants of LMP1-mediated cellular transformation, a retrovirus with a dominant-negative I{kappa}B{alpha} was introduced into the transformed Rat-1-LMP1 cells. The presence of I{kappa}B{alpha} significantly suppressed both focus formation and tumorigenicity of Rat-1-LMP1 cells. Our results suggest that the activation of NF-{kappa}B may play an important role in LMP1-mediated cell transformation and tumorigenesis.


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As a member of human herpesviruses, EBV is often associated with a variety of human malignancies including Burkitt’s lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nasal T-cell lymphoma, and immunoblastic lymphomas in posttransplant and AIDS patients (1) . The virus often adopts latent forms in EBV-associated cancers, expressing only a few viral genes. In nasopharyngeal carcinoma and Hodgkin’s lymphoma, only three viral proteins are frequently detected that include EBV nuclear antigen 1 and LMPs3 LMP1 and LMP2. Among the three, LMP1 is the only one implicated in cell immortalization and transformation. It is an essential gene for EBV-mediated B-cell immortalization (2) . In addition, it induces the transformation of certain established rodent fibroblast cell lines, including Rat-1 and BALB/c 3T3 (3, 4, 5) . Furthermore, it participates in the transformation and tumorigenesis of established human epithelial cell lines (2) . However, the mechanism of LMP1-mediated cellular transformation is yet to be fully understood.

Structural analysis of LMP1 reveals that the protein contains at least three parts: a cytoplasmic NH2 terminus of 24 amino acid residues, a six-transmembrane segment of 162 amino acid residues, and a cytoplasmic COOH terminus of 200 amino acid residues (2) . The six-transmembrane segment was shown to be required to form cytoplasmic membrane patches. Such oligomerization of LMP1 in the cytoplasmic membrane may mimic that induced by ligand-receptor interactions, resulting in a constitutive activation of receptor molecules (6) . The cytoplasmic COOH terminus interacts with two families of proteins, tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factors and TRADD protein through two distinct domains (7 , 8) . These two domains participate in the activation of NF-{kappa}B (9 , 10) and AP-1 (11 , 12) . The TRADD binding domain of LMP1 is largely responsible for NF-{kappa}B activation and is absolutely required for AP-1 activation (9, 10, 11, 12) . Interestingly, a series of studies on recombinant EBV-mediated B-cell growth transformation revealed that this TRADD binding domain of LMP1 is important for the efficient long-term outgrowth of EBV-containing lymphoblastoid cell lines (8 , 13 , 14) . However, the roles of NF-{kappa}B and AP-1 activation in LMP1-mediated cellular transformation and tumorigenesis remain to be elucidated. In this report, we show that the TRADD domain of LMP1, in addition to being required for NF-{kappa}B and AP-1 activation, is important for LMP1-mediated transformation and tumorigenesis of Rat-1 rodent fibroblasts. Furthermore, inhibition of the NF-{kappa}B pathway by a dominant-mutant I{kappa}B{alpha} results in a significant reduction of LMP1 transforming activity.


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Plasmids and Cell Lines.
pLNSX-LMP1 plasmid was used previously (15) . To construct an LMP1 mutant at the TRADD binding site, plasmid pcDNA3-LMP1 with the same 1.95-kb, full-length LMP1 gene (15) was used for PCR mutagenesis with a downstream LMP1ID primer (5'-GCTCTAGATTAGTCGATGCTTAGCTGAACTGG-3') containing an XbaI site (boldface type) and ID sequence (underlined) and an upstream T7 primer (5'-TAATACGACTCACTATAGGGG-3') to substitute the last three amino acid residues of LMP1 form YYD (384 to 386 amino acids) to ID. The PCR product was digested with HindIII and XbaI and cloned into HindIII and ClaI sites of pLNSX retroviral plasmid. The pLNSX-LMP1ID plasmid was confirmed by DNA sequencing and is hereby named pLNSX-LMP1TRADD. The NF-{kappa}B luciferase reporter plasmid (ELAM-Luc) was a gift from David Goeddel (Tularik, South San Francisco, CA), and AP-1 luciferase reporter with four AP-1 sites was a gift from Zhigang Dong (University of Minnesota, Austin, MN). Plasmid pSVK3I{kappa}B{alpha} expressing a dominant-mutant I{kappa}B{alpha} was a gift from John Hiscott (16) . An EcoRI fragment with I{kappa}B{alpha} mutant gene was isolated and subcloned into the EcoRI site of retroviral plasmid pBabe (15) to give pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha}. The Rat-1 rat fibroblast cell line was provided by Dr. Friedrich A. Grasser (Institut fur Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Hamburg, Germany). PA317 and Bosc23 (American Type Culture Collection) are amphotropic and ecotropic retrovirus packaging cell lines, respectively. Cells were cultured in DMEM with 10% serum (Life Technologies, Inc.).

Retrovirus-mediated Gene Transfer and Detection of the Expressed Proteins.
To obtain the retroviruses, the retroviral plasmids were transfected into the ecotropic retrovirus packaging cell line Bosc23 to generate ecotropic viruses, followed by their infection into the amphotrophic viral packaging cell line PA317 to produce amphotrophic retroviruses that are used in all subsequent experiments, as described previously (15) . Rat-1 cells were infected with Rv-LMP1, Rv-LMP1TRADD, or Rv-LNSX (vector control) retroviruses. At 48 h after infection, the cells were selected with geneticin (800 µg/ml) for 2 weeks, and thousands of resistant clones were pooled for subsequent analysis. Similarly, the Rat-1-LMP1 cells were infected with Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha} or Rv-Babe (vector control) retroviruses, selected with puromycin (2 µg/ml), and pooled together to avoid clonal artifact. The expression of LMP1 was demonstrated by immunofluorescence and immunoblotting with an LMP1 antibody S12 (15) , and I{kappa}B{alpha} expression was demonstrated by immunoblotting with antibody SC-203 (Santa Cruz) at 1:200 dilution with 100 µg of cell lysates. A lysate of B95–8 (20 µg), an EBV-positive B-cell line, was used as the positive control for LMP1.

Transcription Activity Analysis.
For each transfection, Rat-1 cells were seeded into six-well dishes at 1 x 105 cells/well (Nunc). The cells were then cotransfected with NF-{kappa}B reporter plasmid (100 ng/well), pRL-SV40 (3 ng/well), and AP-1-Luc (50 ng/well) and the indicated amounts of pLNSX-LMP1, pLNSX-LMP1TRADD, and/or pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha} plasmids. Vector pLNSX or pBabe was supplemented to a total amount of 1 µg of DNA per transfection. Transfection was done with the Lipofectamine system (Life Technologies, Inc.). Cell lysates were made 48 h later and examined by using the dual luciferase reporter assay system (Promega) to obtain the relative promoter activities. All experiments were done in triplicate, and a total of three independent experiments were performed.

Cell Culture Transformation Assay.
For contact inhibition assay (5) , Rat-1 infectants (2 x 105 cells/well) were plated out directly onto six-well dishes. After 7 days, the number of colonies/well was recorded. For soft agar focus formation assay, Rat-1 infectants (5 x 104 cells/well) were seeded in soft agar on six-well dishes as described previously (15) . The number of foci/fixed area was recorded on the 10th day. The transformation experiments were done in triplicate to determine mean and SD.

Nude Mice Tumorigenicity Assay.
Athymic nude mice, 4–6 weeks of age, were inoculated s.c. with different Rat-1 infectants (5 x 106 cells/mouse) in 100 µl of serum-free DMEM medium. After 3–4 weeks, the dimensions of tumor were measured, and the representative animals were photographed. Two independent experiments were carrier out with two sets of independently infected cultures, each of five five-mouse groups.


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Previous work has indicated that LMP1 mediates the transcription activation of NF-{kappa}B and AP-1 primarily through the last few amino acids of LMP1 that interact with TRADD. To investigate the roles of this TRADD binding site in LMP1-mediated transformation of rodent fibroblasts, an LMP1TRADD mutant was made, replacing the amino acid residues required for TRADD interaction YYD at position 384–386 with ID, as described previously (8) . The LMP1TRADD was cloned into a retroviral plasmid vector (pLNSX), and its sequence was confirmed through DNA sequencing. Cotransfection studies with NF-{kappa}B luciferase reporter indicate that whereas wild-type LMP1 activates NF-{kappa}B by 8-fold (Fig. 1ACitation ), the LMP1TRADD mutant only activates NF-{kappa}B by 2-fold (Fig. 1ACitation ). Similar results were also obtained from REF52 rat embryonic fibroblasts or 293 human embryonic kidney cells (data not shown). The result is consistent with other previous studies of similar LMP1 mutants defective in TRADD binding (9 , 10) . In parallel, whereas wild-type LMP1 activates AP-1 by 4 fold in Rat-1 cells, LMP1TRADD shows no activation of AP-1 (Fig. 1BCitation ), correlating with those of previous publications (11 , 12) . Thus, this LMP1TRADD mutant is ~75% defective in NF-{kappa}B activation and 100% defective in AP-1 activation. Retrovirus Rv-LMP1TRADD was constructed to effectively introduce LMP1TRADD into Rat-1 cells. Rat-1 fibroblasts were then infected with vector control Rv-LNSX, wild-type Rv-LMP1, or mutant Rv-LMP1TRADD. Two days after infections, immunofluorescence analysis was performed, and the results revealed that ~30–50% of the LMP1 retrovirus-infected cells expressed LMP1 (data not shown). The cells were reseeded and selected with geneticin. The Rv-LMP1TRADD viral stock had a slightly higher titer than that of Rv-LMP1 and thus gave ~50% more geneticin-resistant colonies. Thousands of resistant clones for each of the three infected cultures were pooled together for further passage under the selection of geneticin. All three drug-selected populations of retrovirus-infected cells showed no noticeable difference in the growth rate because the cells were continuously passaged at 1:10 whenever they reached confluence over a period of 5 weeks. The immunoblot for LMP1 with the cell lysates indicates the presence of LMP1 and LMP1TRADD in the respectively infected cells after selection that is absent in the vector-infected cells (Fig. 1CCitation ).



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Fig. 1. A, LMP1TRADD transactivation of NF-{kappa}B reporter in Rat-1 cells. An NF-{kappa}B luciferase reporter was cotransfected with pLNSX-LMP1 or pLNSX-LMP1TRADD plasmid. The mean of a triplicate experiment is shown; bars, SD. B, LMP1TRADD is defective in activating an AP-1 reporter in Rat-1 cells. Bars, SD. C, the expression of wild-type LMP1 and LMP1TRADD in virus-infected Rat-1 cells detected by immunoblotting with S12. The Mr 60,000 band is the full-length LMP1. D, inhibition of LMP1-mediated NF-{kappa}B activation by pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha} in Rat-1 cells. The experiment followed the same procedure as in A except that plasmid pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha} was used in addition to pLNSX-LMP1. Bars, SD. E, the expression of I{kappa}B{alpha} (Mr 38,000) in Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha} superinfected Rat-1-LMP1 cells by immunoblotting with antibody SC203 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology).

 
To further evaluate the role of NF-{kappa}B activation in LMP1-mediated cell transformation and tumorigenesis, we used a mutant gene encoding a nonphosphorylatable I{kappa}B{alpha} that resulted in a constitutive suppression of NF-{kappa}B despite the presence of the activators (16) . A pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha} plasmid was constructed for generating I{kappa}B{alpha} retrovirus (Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha}). This pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha} plasmid, when cotransfected into Rat-1 cells with pLNSX-LMP1, significantly inhibited LMP1-mediated activation of the NF-{kappa}B reporter (Fig. 1DCitation ). At a 1:1 ratio against cotransfecting pLNSX-LMP1, pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha} inhibited LMP1-mediated NF-{kappa}B activation by 75%; and at 3:1 ratio, it almost completely inhibited LMP1-mediated NF-{kappa}B activation. To examine the effect of this I{kappa}B{alpha} mutant in LMP1-transformed Rat-1 cells, the Rat-1-LMP1 cells were infected with either Rv-Babe (vector) or Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha} retrovirus. Two days after infection, the cells were split 1:5 into six-well dishes and selected with puromycin. Although all of the mock-infected Rat-1-LMP1 cells died, thousand of colonies emerged from each well and covered the wells in 4 days for both Rv-Babe- and Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha}-infected cells. They were again seeded into 10-cm dishes with puromycin selection. Both Rat-1-LMP1/Babe and Rat-1-LMP1/I{kappa}B{alpha} were continuously passaged for 5 weeks together with Rat-1-LMP1 cells. Again, no obvious difference in cell growth was observable among these cultures, suggesting that I{kappa}B{alpha} did not have a significant effect on cell growth. The expression of I{kappa}B{alpha} in these cells was further verified by immunoblot with SC-203 antibody against I{kappa}B{alpha} (Santa Cruz) that yielded a specific band at Mr 38,000, representing I{kappa}B{alpha} protein in the newly established culture (Fig. 1ECitation ). A nonspecific, slow migrating band indicated a similar amount of protein loaded in each lane.

Earlier deletion analysis of LMP1 yielded conflicting results of the sequence requirement for the transformation of rodent fibroblasts in culture (4 , 5) . To examine the effect of LMP1TRADD mutation in transforming Rat-1 fibroblasts and to evaluate the role of NF-{kappa}B activation in the LMP1-mediated transformation process, the respectively infected cells were analyzed for contact inhibition of growth (5) and anchorage-independent growth in soft agar (3) . Cells from thousands of drug-resistant clones were pooled together for all transforming assays to avoid the artifacts from a few selected clones. Reproducible results on transformation assays were obtained from three experiments with independently infected Rat-1 cells. The results of two experiments are shown in Table 1Citation . The data indicated a significant reduction in the number of colonies and foci in Rat-1-LMP1TRADD cells in both assays when compared with that in Rat-1-LMP1 cells. It is also apparent that Rv-LMP1TRADD maintains a residual transforming activity when compared with the negative control Rv-LNSX in both assays. Thus, the results underlined the importance of TRADD binding in LMP1-mediated cell transformation, pointing to the mutation in this domain as the factor leading to a dramatic reduction of LMP1 transforming potential. Our findings are partially consistent with a previous report that showed the removal of the last 23 amino acids of LMP1 resulted in its inability to induce colony formation of Rat-1 cells (5) . Because LMP1-mediated TRADD binding resulted in the activation of a number of signaling cascades, particularly the activation of NF-{kappa}B, we further investigated the role of NF-{kappa}B activation in LMP1-mediated transformation by examining the transforming properties of Rat-1-LMP1 cells after the superinfection by Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha}. Similarly, the transformation assays were done three times with Rat-1-LMP1 independently infected with Rv-Babe or Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha} that gave consistent results. The results from two of them showed that the introduction of this dominant-negative I{kappa}B{alpha} into the transformed Rat-1-LMP1 cells resulted in a significant reduction of colony and focus numbers in both transformation assays, whereas the control virus-infected cells (Rat-1-LMP1/Babe) had little effect (Table 1)Citation . Therefore, keeping a constitutive NF-{kappa}B activation appears to be important for the maintenance of the transforming properties of Rat-1-LMP1 cells.


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Table 1 Cell culture transformation assays of Rat-1 infectants

 
These findings were further strengthened with an in vivo tumor formation assay by inoculating s.c. the respectively infected Rat-1 cells into nude mice in two separate experiments. Four weeks after they were injected with 5 x 106 cells each, the nude mice were photographed, and the dimensions of each tumor were measured. No obvious growth was observed with the parental Rat-1 cells, indicating that this tumorigenic assay is specific. The results revealed that the tumors from Rat-1-LMP1TRADD cells were substantially smaller than the cells with wild-type LMP1 (Rat-1-LMP1; Fig. 2ACitation and Table 2Citation ) suggesting that an intact TRADD domain is also important for inducing tumor formation of Rat-1 cells in the nude mice model. The tumorigenic result of the Rv-I{kappa}B{alpha} superinfected cells further revealed information on the requirement of downstream signal for LMP1-induced tumor growth. Specifically, the presence of I{kappa}B{alpha} in Rat-1-LMP1 cells resulted in a significant reduction of tumor size in nude mice (Fig. 2BCitation and Table 2Citation ), whereas control Rv-Babe-infected cells showed little difference when compared with the parental Rat-1-LMP1 cells. Therefore, the result suggests that a constitutive activation of NF-{kappa}B by LMP1 may play an important role in LMP1-mediated tumorigenesis.



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Fig. 2. A, tumor growth for Rat-1-LMP1 and Rat-1-LMP1TRADD cells in nude mice. Each nude mouse was injected with 5 x 106 Rat-1 cells infected with the indicated retroviruses. Representative mice were photographed 4 weeks after the inoculation. B, tumor growth in nude mice for Rat-1-LMP1/I{kappa}B{alpha} cells and Rat-1-LMP1/Babe cells in an experiment similar to A.

 

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Table 2 Tumorigenicity of Rat-1 infectants

 
LMP1 is capable of inducing the activation of NF-{kappa}B primarily mediated through the TRADD binding domain of the protein. This TRADD domain of LMP1 is important for EBV-mediated B-cell transformation (8 , 13 , 14) . In this study, we used two different approaches, an LMP1TRADD mutant and a dominant-negative mutant I{kappa}B{alpha}, to examine the mechanism of LMP1-mediate transformation of immortalized rodent fibroblasts. A common target affected by these two approaches is the reduction of NF-{kappa}B activity, and in fact, the residual NF-{kappa}B activation activity of the pLNSX-LMP1TRADD mutant is comparable with that of cotransfecting pLNSX-LMP1 and pBabe-I{kappa}B{alpha} at a 1:1 ratio (a 75% reduction when compared with LMP1 alone). The cell lines established from them resulted in a clear and a similar degree of reduction in both in vitro transformation and in vivo tumorigenesis assays. Although LMP1 may still contribute to cell transformation through other processes, our results positively established, for the first time, that the LMP1-mediated NF-{kappa}B activation is important for its transforming activity. There has been a number of studies revealing the involvement of members of the NF-{kappa}B family in tumorigenesis; in particular, Rv-rel, Bcl-3, and Lyt10 were all associated with cancers (17, 18, 19) . In addition to being involved in the regulation of cytokines, cell adhesion molecules, and antiapoptotic genes, emerging evidence also implicates the roles of NF-{kappa}B in cell proliferation (20) and in platelet-derived growth factor signaling process (21) . In parallel with our findings, the constitutive activation of NF-{kappa}B is essential for the transformation of Rat-1 cells by Tax protein of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (22) .

In summary, our results indicate that the TRADD binding domain is important for LMP1-mediated cell transformation, and the introduction of a dominant-negative I{kappa}B{alpha} into the transformed Rat-1-LMP1 significantly inhibits its tumorigenicity. Thus, LMP1-mediated NF-{kappa}B activation is important for it to induce the transformation and tumorigenicity of Rat-1 fibroblasts.


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We thank Drs. John Hiscott for pSVK3I{kappa}B{alpha} plasmid, David Goeddel for NF-{kappa}B reporter plasmid, Zhigang Dong for AP-1 reporter plasmid, Friedrich A. Grasser for Rat-1 cells, David Thorley-Lawson for S12 antibody, and Joanne Zhong and Dongyan Jin for critical reading of the manuscript.


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The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

1 Supported by grants from Research Grant Council, Committee on Research and Conference Grants of Hong Kong, and the Croucher Foundation (to L. C.). Back

2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China. Phone: 852-2855-4822; Fax: 852-2855-1241; E-mail: lcao{at}hkucc.hku.hk Back

3 The abbreviations used are: LMP, latent membrane protein; TRADD, tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated death domain; NF, nuclear factor; AP-1, activator protein-1. Back

Received 11/ 9/99. Accepted 2/17/00.


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