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Journal of Virology, October 2001, p. 10005-10013, Vol. 75, No. 20
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.20.10005-10013.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Differentiation-Dependent Chromatin Rearrangement Coincides with Activation of Human Papillomavirus Type 31 Late Gene Expression

Loren del Mar Peña and Laimonis A. Laimins*

Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611

Received 29 May 2001/Accepted 13 July 2001

The life cycle of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) is tightly linked to the differentiation status of the host cell. While early genes are expressed during the initial stages of viral infection, late gene expression occurs in the suprabasal layers of the cervical epithelium. Late genes encode E1^E4, a cytosolic protein, and capsid proteins L1 and L2. We have mapped over 30 initiation sites for late transcripts and show that the transcripts initiate in a 200-nucleotide region within the E7 open reading frame. The mechanisms regulating the activation of late gene expression, however, are not yet understood. DNase I hypersensitivity analysis of HPV-31 chromatin in cell lines that maintain viral genomes extrachromosomally indicates that a major shift in nuclease digestion occurs upon differentiation. In undifferentiated cells, hypersensitive regions exist in the upstream regulatory region proximal to the E6 open reading frame. Upon differentiation, a region between nucleotides 659 and 811 in the E7 open reading frame becomes accessible to DNase I. These results indicate that the late transcript initiation region becomes accessible to transcription factor binding upon differentiation. Several complexes mediate chromatin rearrangement, and we tested whether histone acetylation was sufficient for late transcript activation. Treatment with the histone deacetylase inhibitor trichostatin A was found to be insufficient to activate late gene expression in undifferentiated cells. However, it did activate expression of early transcripts. These results suggest that chromatin remodeling around the late promoter occurs upon epithelial differentiation and that mechanisms in addition to histone deacetylation contribute to activation of late gene expression.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Medical School, 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611. Phone: (312) 503-0648. Fax: (312) 503-0649. E-mail: l-laimins{at}northwestern.edu.

Journal of Virology, October 2001, p. 10005-10013, Vol. 75, No. 20
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.20.10005-10013.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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