Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Nucleolin directly mediates Epstein-Barr virus immune evasion through binding to G-quadruplexes of EBNA1 mRNA

  • María José Lista,
  • Rodrigo Prado Martins,
  • Olivier Billant,
  • Marie-Astrid Contesse,
  • Sarah Findakly,
  • Pierre Pochard,
  • Chrysoula Daskalogianni,
  • Claire Beauvineau,
  • Corinne Guetta,
  • Christophe Jamin,
  • Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou,
  • Robin Fåhraeus,
  • Cécile Voisset,
  • Marc Blondel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16043
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Cells infected with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) express the virus-encoded EBNA1, which is essential for viral genome maintenance but also highly antigenic. Here the authors implicate nucleolin as a host factor that mediates the repression of EBNA1-derived antigenic peptides through binding of the G4-quadruplex structure present within the EBNA1 mRNA.