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J. Virol., Oct 1997, 7873-7880, Vol 71, No. 10
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

A carboxy-terminal region required by the adenovirus type 9 E4 ORF1 oncoprotein for transformation mediates direct binding to cellular polypeptides

RS Weiss and RT Javier
Division of Molecular Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

Human adenovirus type 9 (Ad9) is unique among oncogenic adenoviruses in that it elicits exclusively mammary tumors in rats and requires the viral E4 region open reading frame 1 (9ORF1) gene for tumorigenicity. The 9ORF1 oncogenic determinant codes for a 14-kDa transforming protein, and three separate regions of this polypeptide, including one at the extreme C terminus, are necessary for transforming activity. In this study, we investigated whether the 9ORF1 transforming protein interacts with cellular factors. Following incubation with cell extracts, a glutathione S-transferase (GST)-9ORF1 fusion protein associated with several cellular phosphoproteins (p220, p180, p160, p155), whereas GST fusion proteins of transformation-defective 9ORF1 C- terminal mutants did not. Similar interactions requiring the 9ORF1 C terminus were revealed with protein-blotting assays, in which a GST- 9ORF1 protein probe reacted specifically with cellular polypeptides having gel mobilities resembling those of the 9ORF1-associated cellular phosphoproteins, as well as with additional cellular polypeptides designated p140/p130. In addition, GST fusion proteins containing 9ORF1 C-terminal fragments associated with some of the 9ORF1-associated cellular polypeptides, as did GST fusion proteins of full-length wild- type Ad5 and Ad12 E4 ORF1 transforming proteins. Significantly, the results of coimmunoprecipitation analyses suggested that the same cellular polypeptides also associate with wild-type but not C-terminal- mutant 9ORF1 proteins in vivo. Together, these findings suggest that the 9ORF1 C terminus, which is essential for transformation, participates in specific and direct binding of the 9ORF1 oncoprotein to multiple cellular polypeptides. We propose that interactions with these cellular factors may be responsible, at least in part, for the transforming activity of the 9ORF1 viral oncoprotein.


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