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A protein serologically and functionally related to the group C E3 14,700-kilodalton protein is found in multiple adenovirus serotypes.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322.

ABSTRACT

A 14.7-kilodalton protein (14.7K protein) encoded by the E3 region of group C adenoviruses has been shown to protect virus-infected fibroblasts from lysis by tumor necrosis factor (TNF) (L.R. Gooding, L.W. Elmore, A.E. Tollefson, H.A. Brady, and W.S.M. Wold, Cell 53:341-346, 1988). In this study we show that adenoviruses of other groups are also protected from TNF-induced cytolysis. Representative serotypes of groups A, B, D, and E produce a protein analogous to the 14.7K protein found in human group C adenoviruses. Deletion of this protein in group C viruses permits virus infection to induce cellular susceptibility to TNF killing. As with group C adenoviruses, cells infected with wild-type adenoviruses of other serotypes are not killed by TNF and are protected from lysis induced by TNF plus cycloheximide. However, cells are susceptible to TNF-induced lysis when infected with adenovirus type 4 mutants from which the 14.7K gene has been deleted. Although all known adenovirus serotypes infect epithelial cells, adenoviruses cause several diseases with various degrees of pathogenesis. Our findings suggest that the 14.7K protein provides a function required for the in vivo cytotoxicity of many adenoviruses independent of the site of infection or degree of pathogenesis.

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