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Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 8166-8173, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Fifteen-Amino-Acid Peptide Inhibits Human Papillomavirus E1-E2 Interaction and Human Papillomavirus DNA Replication In Vitro

Hiroaki Kasukawa, Peter M. Howley, and John D. Benson*

Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 3 June 1998/Accepted 10 July 1998

Mutation of the conserved glutamic acid residue at position 39 of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) E2 to alanine (E39A) disrupts its E1 interaction activity and its replication function in transient replication assays but does not affect E2 transcriptional activation. This E39A mutation also disrupts replication activity of HPV-16 E2 in HPV-16 in vitro DNA replication. On this basis, we designed 23- and 15-amino-acid peptides derived from HPV-16 E2 sequences flanking the E39 residue and tested the ability of these peptides to inhibit interaction between HPV-16 E1 and E2 in vitro. The inhibitory activity of these peptides was specific, since analogous peptides in which alanine was substituted for the E39 residue did not inhibit interaction. The 15-amino-acid peptide E2N-WP15 was the smallest peptide tested that effectively inhibited HPV-16 E1-E2 interaction. This peptide also inhibited in vitro replication of HPV-16 DNA. The efficacy of E2N-WP15 was not exclusive to HPV-16: this peptide also inhibited interaction of HPV-11 E1 with the E2 proteins of both HPV-11 and HPV-16 and inhibited in vitro replication with these same combinations of E1 and E2 proteins. These results provide further evidence that E1-E2 interaction is required for papillomavirus DNA replication and constitute the first demonstration that inhibition of this interaction is sufficient to prevent HPV DNA replication in vitro.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 432-2892. Fax: (617) 432-0727. E-mail: jbenson{at}warren.med.harvard.edu.

Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 8166-8173, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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