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J Virol. 1992 January; 66(1): 197-203

Evidence for intracellular down-regulation of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor during adenovirus infection by an EGF-independent mechanism.

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

ABSTRACT

We have reported previously that human group C adenoviruses down-regulate the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor (EGF-R) (C. R. Carlin, A. E. Tollefson, H. A. Brady, B. L. Hoffman, and W. S. M. Wold, Cell 57:135-144, 1989). Expression of a 13.7-kDa protein encoded by a gene in the E3 transcription unit is necessary and sufficient for this effect (Carlin et al., Cell, 1989; B. L. Hoffman, A. Ullrich, W. S. M. Wold, and C. R. Carlin, Mol. Cell. Biol. 10:5521-5524, 1990). We show here that EGF-R down-regulation is accelerated in cells which overexpress the receptor when these cells are infected with virus mutants that overproduce the 13.7-kDa protein compared with wild-type virus. This is in contrast to EGF stimulation, for which others have shown that high concentrations of ligand are associated with low rates of receptor internalization in EGF-R-overexpressing cells (D. Kuppuswamy and L. J. Pike, J. Biol. Chem. 264:3357-3363, 1989; H. S. Wiley, J. Cell Biol. 107:801-810, 1988). We also show that the E3 protein is not present in media conditioned by infected cells and that it does not induce secretion of an EGF-like autocrine factor. Moreover, while mature membrane-bound EGF-R is down-regulated, the precursor of the membrane-bound form is not. Adenovirus infection also does not affect receptor-related molecules expressed in the secretory pathway. Interestingly, adenovirus-induced down-regulation is not regulated by concentrations of EGF associated with a slow rate of internalization in A431 cells. This suggests that 13.7-kDa protein expression triggers receptor entry by a novel ligand-independent pathway or, alternatively, that it compensates for a cellular factor that may be rate limiting during EGF-mediated endocytosis.

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