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However, recent transcriptome analyses of KS lesions have shown high expression of KSHV open reading frame (ORF) 75, which is considered a late lytic gene based on analyses in primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) lines. ORF75 encodes a pseudo-amidotransferase that is part of the viral tegument, acts as a suppressor of innate immunity, and is essential for viral lytic replication. We assessed a representative KS lesion by RNAscope and found that ORF75 RNA was expressed in the majority of latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA)-expressing cells. Luciferase fusion reporter constructs of the ORF75 promoter were analyzed for factors potentially driving its expression in KS. The ORF75 promoter construct showed high basal transcriptional activity\n                  <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n                  in endothelial cells, mediated by a proximal consensus specificity protein 1 (Sp1) (GGGGCGGGGC) element along with two distal CCAAT boxes. Sp proteins formed complexes with the proximal consensus Sp1 element to activate ORF75 promoter transcription. We also found evidence that a repressive factor or factors in B cells, but not endothelial or epithelial cells, interacted with more distal elements in the ORF75 promoter region to repress constitutive ORF75 expression in B cells. Alternate forms of Sp1 were found to accumulate during latency and showed substantial enrichment during viral lytic replication in PEL cells and infected endothelial cells, but their functional significance is unclear. We also found that ORF75 can in turn upregulate its own expression and that of other KSHV genes. Thus, while ORF75 acts primarily as a lytic gene in PEL cell lines, Sp proteins induce substantial constitutive ORF75 transcription in infected endothelial cells and this can account for its high expression in KS lesions.\n                <\/jats:p>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Author Summary<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In our study, we explored KSHV ORF75, a tegument protein that is increasingly being appreciated as playing a vital role in KSHV replication and inactivating the innate immune response. ORF75 is characterized as a late lytic protein but has been recently found to be consistently expressed in Kaposi\u2019s sarcoma (KS) lesions, which generally express only latent KSHV genes. Our findings reveal that ORF75 is constitutively expressed in endothelial and epithelial cells, and to a lesser extent B-cells. We found that constitutive expression of ORF75 is largely mediated by specificity (Sp) proteins binding to a proximal Sp1 site in the ORF75 promoter region. Moreover, we found that the lower expression of ORF75 in KSHV-infected B cells is due to suppressive factors acting at a more distal region of the ORF75 promoter. We further found that ORF75 can enhance expression of its own RNA as well as that of several other KSHV proteins, including replication and transcription activator (RTA) and latency associated nuclear antigen (LANA). This constitutive expression of ORF75, a late lytic gene, can explain how it can play such an important role in the earlier steps in KSHV lytic activation and underscores the importance of this gene.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2024.09.26.615194","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,27]],"date-time":"2024-09-27T00:05:18Z","timestamp":1727395518000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Elevated Expression of ORF75, a Lytic KSHV Gene, in Kaposi Sarcoma Lesions is Driven by a GC-rich DNA cis Element in its Promoter Region"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1338-5344","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ashwin","family":"Nair","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9527-7007","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David A.","family":"Davis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Warner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9604-9762","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Baktiar","family":"Karim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5709-4675","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ramya","family":"Ramaswami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3057-1395","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert","family":"Yarchoan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2024100105300573000_2024.09.26.615194v1.1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9","DOI":"10.1038\/s41572-019-0060-9","article-title":"Kaposi sarcoma","volume":"5","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nat Rev Dis Primers"},{"key":"2024100105300573000_2024.09.26.615194v1.2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1865","DOI":"10.1126\/science.7997879","article-title":"Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi\u2019s sarcoma. 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