Epstein-Barr virus intrastrain recombination in oral hairy leukoplakia.
AUTOR(ES)
Walling, D M
RESUMO
In laboratory lymphoblastoid cell lines and in natural human infections, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) strains have been identified by DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the BamHI H fragment. Multiple, heterogeneous BamHI H fragments have been detected in oral hairy leukoplakia (HLP), raising the question of EBV coinfection with multiple strains. To investigate whether the heterogeneous BamHI H fragments represent different EBV strains or recombinant variants of the same strain, EBV DNA from HLP lesions was analyzed to characterize the viral strains and determine the source of possible recombinant variants. Clones of heterogeneous BamHI H fragments from a single HLP lesion were determined to have strain identity on the basis of sequence identity of the EBNA-2 genes. Intrastrain homologous recombination within the IR2 internal repeat region and nonhomologous recombination of other sequences accounted for the heterogeneity of the BamHI H fragments. PCR amplification from additional HLP specimens detected similar recombinant variants. A possible example of site-specific recombination joining the BamHI Y portion of the EBNA-2 gene to sequences within the BamHI S fragment was also detected in multiple HLP specimens. These data indicate that intrastrain recombination during productive replication confounds the use of restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the BamHI Y and H fragments to identify EBV strains in HLP. In patients with permissive epithelial EBV infections, EBV strains could be more accurately distinguished by sequence identity or divergence within known regions of genetic strain variation.
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