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The Cap Region of Topoisomerase I Binds to Sites near Both Ends of Simian Virus 40 T Antigen

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716-2590,¹ Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7242²

Received 1 May 2003/ Accepted 24 June 2003

Two independent binding sites on simian virus 40 (SV40) T antigen for topoisomerase I (topo I) were identified. One was mapped to the N-terminal domain (residues 83 to 160) by a combination of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) pull-down assays performed with various T antigen deletion mutants. The second was mapped to the C-terminal domain (residues 602 to 708). The region in human topo I that binds to both sites in T antigen was identified by ELISAs, GST pull-down assays, and double-hexamer binding assays with topo I deletion mutants. This region corresponds to a distinct domain on topo I known as the cap region that maps from residues 175 to 433. By combining these data with information about the structure of T-antigen double hexamers associated with origin DNA, we propose that the cap region of topo I associates specifically with both ends of the double hexamer bound to the SV40 origin to initiate DNA replication.

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