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Journal of Virology, November 1998, p. 8852-8860, Vol. 72, No. 11
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Human T-Cell Lymphotropic/Leukemia Virus Type 1 Tax
Abrogates p53-Induced Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis through Its
CREB/ATF Functional Domain
J. C.
Mulloy,1,*
T.
Kislyakova,1,
A.
Cereseto,1
L.
Casareto,1
A.
LoMonico,1
J.
Fullen,1
M. V.
Lorenzi,2
A.
Cara,1,
C.
Nicot,1
C.-Z.
Giam,3 and
G.
Franchini1
Basic Research
Laboratory1 and
Laboratory of Cellular
and Molecular Biology,2 Division of Basic
Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, and
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
208143
Received 21 April 1998/Accepted 4 August 1998
Human T-cell lymphotropic/leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) transforms
human T cells in vitro, and Tax, a potent transactivator of viral and
cellular genes, plays a key role in cell immortalization. Tax activity
is mediated by interaction with cellular transcription factors
including members of the CREB/ATF family, the NF-
B/c-Rel family,
serum response factor, and the coactivators CREB binding protein-p300.
Although p53 is usually not mutated in HTLV-1-infected T cells, its
half-life is increased and its function is impaired. Here we report
that transient coexpression of p53 and Tax results in the suppression
of p53 transcriptional activity. Expression of Tax abrogates
p53-induced G1 arrest in the Calu-6 cell line and prevents
the apoptosis induced by overexpressing p53 in the HeLa/Tat cell line.
The Tax mutants M22 and G148V, which selectively activate the CREB/ATF
pathway, exert these same biological effects on p53 function. In
contrast, the NF-
B-active Tax mutant M47 has no effect on p53
activity in any of these systems. Consistent with the negative effect
of Tax on p53, no activity on a p53-responsive promoter was observed
upon transfection of HTLV-1-infected T-cell lines. The p53 protein is
expressed at high levels in the nucleus, and nuclear extracts of
HTLV-1-infected T cells bind constitutively to a DNA oligonucleotide
containing the p53 response element, indicating that Tax does not
interfere with p53 binding to DNA. Tax is able to suppress the
transactivation function of p53 in three different cell lines, and this
suppression required Tax-mediated activation of the CREB/ATF, but not
the NF-
B/c-Rel, pathway. Tax and the active Tax mutants were able to
abrogate the G1 arrest and apoptosis induced by p53, and
this effect does not correlate with an altered localization of nuclear
p53 or with the disruption of p53-DNA complexes. The suppression of p53
activity by Tax could be important in T-cell immortalization induced by
HTLV-1.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Basic Research
Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, 37 Convent Dr., Bldg. 37, Room 6A11, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: (301) 496-2386. Fax: (301) 496-8394. E-mail: jmulloy{at}helix.nih.gov.

Present address: Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of
Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Present address: Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Division of Infectious
Disease, New York, NY 10029.
Journal of Virology, November 1998, p. 8852-8860, Vol. 72, No. 11
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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