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 Blood, 1 December 2005, Vol. 106, No. 12, pp. 3797-3802.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on August 9, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-04-1627.

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Intrabodies targeting the Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus latency antigen inhibit viral persistence in lymphoma cells

Sofia Corte-Real, Chris Collins, Frederico Aires da Silva, J. Pedro Simas, Carlos F. Barbas, III, Yuan Chang, Patrick Moore, and Joao Goncalves

From the URIA-Centro de Patogénese Molecular, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Molecular Virology Program, Hillman Cancer Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Molecular Biology and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; and Laboratório de Microbiologia e Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.

Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) latency-associated nuclear antigen-1 (LANA1) is essential for the maintenance and segregation of viral episomes in KSHV latently infected B cells. We report development of intracellular, rabbit-derived antibodies generated by phage display technology, which bind to N-terminal LANA1 epitopes and neutralize the chromosome-binding activity of LANA1. Although these cloned single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) show relatively low binding affinities for the LANA1 viral antigen in in vitro assays, they nonetheless outcompete KSHV-seropositive human sera for LANA1 epitope binding. In heterologous cells, intracellular intrabody expression inhibits LANA1-dependent plasmid maintenance of both an artificial plasmid containing KSHV LANA1 binding sequences and a bacterial artificial chromosome containing the entire KSHV genome. In KSHV naturally infected primary effusion lymphoma cells, intracellular intrabody expression causes a reduction or loss of the typical LANA1 punctate, nuclear pattern. This morphologically apparent LANA1 dispersion correlates to loss of viral episome by molecular analysis. These data suggest a novel approach to antiherpes viral therapy and confirm LANA1 is critical target for neutralization of KSHV viral latency.


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