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Journal of Virology, August 2001, p. 6737-6747, Vol. 75, No. 15
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.15.6737-6747.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Destabilization of the Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor by Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E7 Is Not Sufficient To Overcome Cell Cycle Arrest in Human Keratinocytes

Anna-Marija Helt and Denise A. Galloway*

Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, and Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

Received 9 February 2001/Accepted 27 April 2001

The E7 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus type 16 promotes cell proliferation in the presence of antiproliferative signals. Mutagenesis of E7 has revealed that this activity requires three regions, conserved regions 1 and 2 and a C-terminal zinc finger. Binding to the retinoblastoma tumor repressor (Rb) through an LxCxE motif in conserved region 2 is necessary, but not sufficient, for E7 to induce proliferation. We tested the hypothesis that binding to Rb is not sufficient because conserved region 1 and/or the C terminus are required for E7 to functionally inactivate Rb and thus induce proliferation. One mechanism proposed for how E7 inactivates Rb is by blocking Rb-E2F binding. Either conserved region 1 or the C terminus was necessary, in combination with the LxCxE motif, for E7 to block Rb-E2F binding in vitro. While all full-length E7 proteins with mutations outside of the LxCxE motif inhibited Rb-E2F binding, some failed to abrogate cell cycle arrest, demonstrating that blocking Rb-E2F binding is not sufficient for abrogating antiproliferative signals. Another mechanism proposed for how E7 inactivates Rb is by promoting the destabilization of Rb protein. Mutations in conserved region 1 or the LxCxE motif prevented E7 from reducing the half-life of Rb. Though no specific C-terminal residues of E7 were essential for destabilizing Rb, a novel class of mutations that uncouple the destabilization of Rb from the deregulation of keratinocyte proliferation was discovered. Destabilization of Rb correlated with the abrogation of Rb-induced quiescence but was not sufficient for overriding DNA damage-induced cell cycle arrest or for increasing keratinocyte life span. Finally, the same regions of E7 required for destabilizing Rb were required for reducing p107 and p130 levels. Together, these results suggest that inactivation of all three Rb family members is not sufficient to deregulate keratinocyte cell cycle control.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Mailstop C1-015, Seattle, WA 98109. Phone: (206) 667-4500. Fax: (206) 667-5815. E-mail: dgallowa{at}fhcrc.org.

Journal of Virology, August 2001, p. 6737-6747, Vol. 75, No. 15
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.15.6737-6747.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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