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Journal of Virology, December 2000, p. 11407-11412, Vol. 74, No. 23
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Functional Complex of Adenovirus Proteins E1B-55kDa and E4orf6 Is Necessary To Modulate the Expression Level of p53 but Not Its Transcriptional Activity

Toni Cathomen and Matthew D. Weitzman*

Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037

Received 11 April 2000/Accepted 12 September 2000

In adenovirus-infected cells, binding of E1B-55kDa and E4orf6 to the tumor suppressor protein p53 inhibits its transcriptional activity and causes rapid turnover of the protein. To investigate the requirements of the E1B-E4orf6 complex to modulate p53 function, we generated an E4orf6 mutant that failed to associate functionally and physically with E1B-55kDa but still interacted with p53. We confirm that E4orf6 and E1B-55kDa reduce p53 transactivation individually and show that their combined inhibition is additive rather than synergistic. Furthermore, we found that downregulation of p53's expression level, but not transcriptional inhibition of p53, depends on a functional E1B-E4 complex. A functional interaction of E1B-55kDa with p53, on the other hand, is a prerequisite for both transcriptional repression and downregulation of p53. The separation of these two functions will enable further dissection of the requirements for oncogenicity by the E4orf6 protein.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037. Phone: (858) 453-4100, ext. 2037. Fax: (858) 558-7454. E-mail: weitzman{at}salk.edu.

Journal of Virology, December 2000, p. 11407-11412, Vol. 74, No. 23
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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