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Journal of Virology, November 2000, p. 10523-10534, Vol. 74, No. 22
The John Curtin School of Medical Research, the Australian
National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia,1 and Department of
Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington State University, Pullman,
Washington 991642
Received 23 March 2000/Accepted 4 August 2000
HMG I/Y appears to be a multifunctional protein that relies on in
its ability to interact with DNA in a structure-specific manner and
with DNA, binding transcriptional activators via distinct protein-protein interaction surfaces. To investigate the hypothesis that HMG I/Y may have a role in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) expression, we have analyzed whether HMG I/Y interacts with the
5' long terminal repeat and whether this interaction can modulate
transcription factor binding. Using purified recombinant HMG I, we have
identified several high-affinity binding sites which overlap important
transcription factor binding sites. One of these HMG I binding sites
coincides with an important binding site for AP-1 located downstream of
the transcriptional start site, in the 5' untranslated region at the
boundary of a positioned nucleosome. HMG I binding to this composite
site inhibits the binding of recombinant AP-1. Consistent with this
observation, using nuclear extracts prepared from Jurkat T cells, we
show that HMG I (but not HMG Y) is strongly induced upon phorbol
myristate acetate stimulation and this induced HMG I appears to both
selectively inhibit the binding of basal DNA-binding proteins and
enhance the binding of an inducible AP-1 transcription factor to this AP-1 binding site. We also report the novel finding that a component present in this inducible AP-1 complex is ATF-3. Taken together, these
results argue that HMG I may play a fundamental role in HIV-1
expression by determining the nature of transcription factor-promoter interactions.
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High-Mobility-Group Protein I Can Modulate Binding of
Transcription Factors to the U5 Region of the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Proviral Promoter
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: The John Curtin
School of Medical Research, the Australian National University, P.O. Box 334, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia. Phone:
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David.Tremethick{at}anu.edu.au.
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