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Journal of Virology, September 1999, p. 7543-7555, Vol. 73, No. 9
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Sequence Requirements for the Assembly of Simian Virus 40 T Antigen and the T-Antigen Origin Binding Domain on the Viral Core Origin of Replication

Henry Y. Kim, Brett A. Barbaro, Woo S. Joo,dagger Andrea E. Prack, K. R. Sreekumar, and Peter A. Bullock*

Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 19 April 1999/Accepted 3 June 1999

The regions of the simian virus 40 (SV40) core origin that are required for stable assembly of virally encoded T antigen (T-ag) and the T-ag origin binding domain (T-ag-obd131-260) have been determined. Binding of the purified T-ag-obd131-260 is mediated by interactions with the central region of the core origin, site II. In contrast, T-ag binding and hexamer assembly requires a larger region of the core origin that includes both site II and an additional fragment of DNA that may be positioned on either side of site II. These studies indicate that in the context of T-ag, the origin binding domain can engage the pentanucleotides in site II only if a second region of T-ag interacts with one of the flanking sequences. The requirements for T-ag double-hexamer assembly are complex; the nucleotide cofactor present in the reaction modulates the sequence requirements for oligomerization. Nevertheless, these experiments provide additional evidence that only a subset of the SV40 core origin is required for assembly of T-ag double hexamers.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry A703, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. Phone: (617) 636-6874. Fax: (617) 636-2409. E-mail: PBULLOCK{at}OPAL.TUFTS.EDU.

dagger Present address: Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021.

Journal of Virology, September 1999, p. 7543-7555, Vol. 73, No. 9
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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