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J. Virol., 05 1997, 3375-3384, Vol 71, No. 5
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Bipartite structure and functional independence of adenovirus type 5 packaging elements

SI Schmid and P Hearing
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794, USA.

Selectivity and polarity of adenovirus type 5 DNA packaging are believed to be directed by an interaction of putative packaging factors with the cis-acting adenovirus packaging domain located within the genomic left end (nucleotides 194 to 380). In previous studies, this packaging domain was mutationally dissected into at least seven functional elements called A repeats. These elements, albeit redundant in function, exhibit differences in the ability to support viral packaging, with elements I, II, V, and VI as the most critical repeats. Viral packaging was shown to be sensitive to spatial changes between individual A repeats. To study the importance of spatial constraints in more detail, we performed site-directed mutagenesis of the 21-bp linker regions separating A repeats I and II, as well as A repeats V and VI. The results of our mutational analysis reveal previously unrecognized sequences that are critical for DNA encapsidation in vivo. On the basis of these results, we present a more complex consensus motif for the adenovirus packaging elements which is bipartite in structure. DNA encapsidation is compromised by changes in spacing between the two conserved parts of the consensus motif, rather than between different A repeats. Genetic evidence implicating packaging elements as independent units in viral DNA packaging is derived from the selection of revertants from a packaging-deficient adenovirus: multimerization of packaging repeats is sufficient for the evolution of packaging- competent viruses. Finally, we identify minimally sized segments of the adenovirus packaging domain that can confer viability and packaging activity to viruses carrying gross truncations within their left-end sequences. Coinfection experiments using the revertant as well as the minimal-packaging-domain mutant viruses strengthen existing arguments for the involvement of limiting, trans-acting components in viral DNA packaging.

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