PUBLICATION

Zebrafish Plzf transcription factors enhance early type I IFN response induced by two non-enveloped RNA viruses

Authors
Aleksejeva, E., Houel, A., Briolat, V., Levraud, J.P., Langevin, C., Boudinot, P.
ID
ZDB-PUB-160101-4
Date
2016
Source
Developmental and comparative immunology   57: 48-56 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Briolat, Valerie, Levraud, Jean-Pierre
Keywords
PLZF, ZBTB, antiviral innate immunity, interferon, zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Immunity, Innate
  • Interferon Type I/immunology*
  • Interferon Type I/metabolism
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors/classification
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors/genetics
  • Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors/metabolism*
  • Mice
  • Phylogeny
  • Poly I-C/immunology
  • RNA Virus Infections/immunology*
  • RNA Viruses/immunology*
  • RNA, Viral/immunology
  • Transcriptome
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/immunology*
  • Zebrafish Proteins/classification
  • Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism*
PubMed
26719025 Full text @ Dev. Comp. Immunol.
Abstract
The BTB-POZ transcription factor Promyelocytic Leukemia Zinc Finger (PLZF, or ZBTB16) has been recently identified as a major factor regulating the induction of a subset of Interferon stimulated genes in human and mouse. We show that the two co-orthologues of PLZF found in zebrafish show distinct expression patterns, especially in larvae. Although zbtb16a/plzfa and zbtb16b/plzfb are not modulated by IFN produced during viral infection, their over-expression increases the level of the early type I IFN response, at a critical phase in the race between the virus and the host response. The effect of Plzfb on IFN induction was also detectable after cell infection by different non-enveloped RNA viruses, but not after infection by the rhabdovirus SVCV. Our findings indicate that plzf implication in the regulation of type I IFN responses is conserved across vertebrates, but at multiple levels of the pathway and through different mechanisms.
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