Rôle des variants de la protéine de latence LMP du virus d'Epstein-Barr dans le développement du lymphome de Hodgkin chez les personnes VIH+

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The aim of this work was to improve our understanding of the role of LMP1 and its 30bp and 69bp deletion variants in the development of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) among HIV+ people. Blood and saliva samples were collected from HL/HIV+ patients recruited in the Lymphovir cohort, as well as in two control populations (HIV+ and HL). Next-Generation Sequencing allowed us to determine the frequency of LMP1 variants in these samples. This work showed that the del30-LMP1 variant seems to be more frequent in patients with a moderate immunosuppression, associated with a higher HL incidence. Besides, we established three HL-derived cell lines expressing WT-LMP1 or its variants and showed differences of cytokine expression and progression of the cell cycle depending on the variant. Our work supports the hypothesis of a greater oncogenicity of del30-LMP1 variant and suggests that it could be a risk factor for the development of HL.

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