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Journal of Virology, November 2000, p. 10081-10095, Vol. 74, No. 21
Division of Virology, National Institute for Medical
Research, Mill Hill, London,1 Department
of Pathology, University of Cambridge,2 and
MRC Centre for Protein Engineering,4
Cambridge, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research,
Manchester,5 and Institute of Virology,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow,7 United Kingdom;
Department of Virology, Institut Suisse de Recherches
Experimentales sur le Cancer, Epalinges,
Switzerland3; and
Department of Microbiology, University of Addis Ababa, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia6
Received 11 April 2000/Accepted 20 July 2000
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) infects cervical epithelium
and is associated with the majority of cervical cancers. The
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The E1
E4 Protein of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Associates with a Putative RNA Helicase through Sequences in Its
C Terminus
E4 protein of HPV16 but not those of HPV1 or HPV6
was found to associate with a novel member of the DEAD box protein
family of RNA helicases through sequences in its C terminus. This
protein, termed E4-DBP (E4-DEAD box protein), has a molecular weight of 66,000 (66K) and can shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. It
binds to RNA in vitro, including the major HPV16 late transcript (E1
E4.L1), and has an RNA-independent ATPase activity
which can be partially inhibited by E1
E4. E4-DBP was
detectable in the cytoplasm of cells expressing HPV16
E1
E4 (in vivo and in vitro) and could be
immunoprecipitated as an E1
E4 complex from cervical epithelial cell lines. In cell lines lacking cytoplasmic intermediate filaments, loss of the leucine cluster-cytoplasmic anchor region of
HPV16 E1
E4 resulted in both proteins colocalizing
exclusively to the nucleoli. Two additional HPV16
E1
E4-binding proteins, of 80K and 50K, were identified
in pull-down experiments but were not recognized by antibodies to
E4-DBP or the conserved DEAD box motif. Sequence analysis of
E4-DBP revealed homology in its E4-binding region with three
Escherichia coli DEAD box proteins involved in the
regulation of mRNA stability and degradation (RhlB, SrmB, and DeaD) and
with the Rrp3 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is
involved in ribosome biogenesis. The synthesis of HPV16 coat proteins
occurs after E1
E4 expression and genome amplification and is regulated at the level of mRNA stability and translation. Identification of E4-DBP as an HPV16 E1
E4-associated
protein indicates a possible role for E1
E4 in virus synthesis.
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of
Virology, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill
Hill, London NW7 1AA, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-208-913-8677. Fax:
44-208-906-4477. E-mail: jdoorba{at}nimr.mrc.ac.uk.
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