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J Virol, July 1998, p. 5994-6003, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

In Vivo Protein Binding and Functional Analysis of cis-Acting Elements in the U3 Region of the Bovine Leukemia Virus Long Terminal Repeat

Jianqiao Xiaodagger and Gertrude C. Buehring*

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Received 27 May 1997/Accepted 9 April 1998

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a member of the human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV)/BLV group of retroviruses. These viruses regulate their own transcription by producing Tax, a protein which activates the virus promoter region, the long terminal repeat (LTR). To explore the molecular mechanisms involved in the transactivation, we identified protein binding elements by in vivo footprinting and analyzed their function by site- directed mutagenesis. We used in vivo dimethyl sulfate footprinting by ligation-mediated PCR to detect constitutive in vivo protein-DNA interactions in a BLV-producing cell line, Bat2Cl6. The U3 region and part of the R region of the LTR were footprinted. In addition to the cis-acting elements (three cyclic AMP-responsive elements [CREs] and two AP4 sites) reported by others to be important for Tax-mediated activation of the BLV LTR, we found footprints in regions flanking these elements and in the core promoter region. The importance of these sites for transcriptional activation was studied by site-directed mutagenesis followed by promoter function analysis of the mutants with a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter system. Our data corroborate those of others showing that the CREs are necessary for transactivation of the LTR, and they identify two new functional sites not previously reported by others. We show that the middle region of the BLV U3 contains multiple dual-functioning cis-acting elements which act as either positive or negative regulatory elements depending on the cell type tested. This is the first report of a functional mapping of the cis-acting elements of a virus of the HTLV/BLV group.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: 140 Warren Hall, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Phone: (510) 642-3870. Fax: (510) 642-6530. E-mail: buehring{at}uclink4.berkeley.edu.

dagger Present address: School of Dentistry, Department of Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.

J Virol, July 1998, p. 5994-6003, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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