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Journal of Virology, November 2000, p. 10081-10095, Vol. 74, No. 21
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

The E1∧E4 Protein of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Associates with a Putative RNA Helicase through Sequences in Its C Terminus

John Doorbar,1,* Robert C. Elston,1 Sawsan Napthine,2 Kenneth Raj,3 Elizabeth Medcalf,2 Deborah Jackson,1 Nick Coleman,2 Heather M. Griffin,4 Philip Masterson,1 Simon Stacey,5 Yohannes Mengistu,6 and Julia Dunlop7

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 E1and 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 (E1and E4.L1), and has an RNA-independent ATPase activity which can be partially inhibited by E1and E4. E4-DBP was detectable in the cytoplasm of cells expressing HPV16 E1and E4 (in vivo and in vitro) and could be immunoprecipitated as an E1and E4 complex from cervical epithelial cell lines. In cell lines lacking cytoplasmic intermediate filaments, loss of the leucine cluster-cytoplasmic anchor region of HPV16 E1and E4 resulted in both proteins colocalizing exclusively to the nucleoli. Two additional HPV16 E1and 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 E1and E4 expression and genome amplification and is regulated at the level of mRNA stability and translation. Identification of E4-DBP as an HPV16 E1and E4-associated protein indicates a possible role for E1and E4 in virus synthesis.


* 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.


Journal of Virology, November 2000, p. 10081-10095, Vol. 74, No. 21
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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