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J Virol. 1985 December; 56(3): 767-778

Isolation and analysis of adenovirus type 5 mutants containing deletions in the gene encoding the DNA-binding protein.

S A Rice and D F Klessig

ABSTRACT

A genetic system is described which allows the isolation and propagation of adenovirus mutants containing lesions in early region 2A (E2A), the gene encoding the multifunctional adenovirus DNA-binding protein (DBP). A cloned E2A gene was first mutagenized in vitro and then was introduced into the viral genome by in vivo recombination. The E2A mutants were propagated by growth in human cell lines which express an integrated copy of the DBP gene under the control of a dexamethasone-inducible promoter (D. F. Klessig, D. E. Brough, and V. Cleghon, Mol. Cell. Biol. 4:1354-1362, 1984). The protocol was used to construct five adenovirus mutants, Ad5d1801 through Ad5d1805, which contained deletions in E2A. One of the mutants, Ad5d1802, made no detectable DBP and thus represents the first DBP-negative adenovirus mutant, while the four other mutants made truncated DBP-related polypeptides. All five mutants were completely defective for growth and plaque formation on HeLa cell monolayers. Furthermore, the two mutants which were tested, Ad5d1801 and Ad5d1802, did not replicate their DNA in HeLa cells. The mutant Ad5d1804 encoded a truncated DBP-related protein which contained an entire amino-terminal domain derived from the host range mutant Ad5hr404, a variant of Ad5 which multiplies efficiently in monkey cells. While results of a previous study suggest that the amino-terminal domain of DBP could act independently of the carboxyl-terminal domain to enhance late gene expression in monkey cells, the Ad5d1804 polypeptide failed to relieve the block to late viral protein synthesis in monkey cells. The mutant Ad5d1802 was used to study the role of DBP in the regulation of early adenovirus gene expression in infected HeLa cells. These experiments show that E2A mRNA levels are consistently reduced approximately fivefold in Ad5d1802-infected cells, suggesting either a role for DBP in the expression of its own gene or a cis-acting defect caused by the E2A deletion. DBP does not appear to play a significant role in the regulation of adenovirus early regions 1A, 1B, 3, or 4 mRNA levels in infected HeLa cell monolayers since wild-type Ad5- and Ad5d1802-infected cells showed very little difference in the patterns of expression of these genes.

J Virol. 1985 December; 56(3): 767-778




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