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Journal of Virology, July 2004, p. 6735-6743, Vol. 78, No. 13
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.13.6735-6743.2004

Tax Relieves Transcriptional Repression by Promoting Histone Deacetylase 1 Release from the Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Long Terminal Repeat

Hanxin Lu,1 Cynthia A. Pise-Masison,1 Rebecca Linton,1 Hyeon Ung Park,1 R. Louis Schiltz,2 Vittorio Sartorelli,2 and John N. Brady1*

Virus Tumor Biology Section, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Cancer Institute,1 Laboratory of Muscle Biology, Muscle Gene Expression Group, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 208922

Received 11 December 2003/ Accepted 19 February 2004

Expression of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is regulated by the viral transcriptional activator Tax. Tax activates viral transcription through interaction with the cellular transcription factor CREB and the coactivators CBP/p300. In this study, we have analyzed the role of histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) on HTLV-1 gene expression from an integrated template. First we show that trichostatin A, an HDAC inhibitor, enhances Tax expression in HTLV-1-transformed cells. Second, using a cell line containing a single-copy HTLV-1 long terminal repeat, we demonstrate that overexpression of HDAC1 represses Tax transactivation. Furthermore, a chromatin immunoprecipitation assay allowed us to analyze the interaction of transcription factors, coactivators, and HDACs with the basal and activated HTLV-1 promoter. We demonstrate that HDAC1 is associated with the inactive, but not the Tax-transactivated, HTLV-1 promoter. In vitro and in vivo glutathione S-transferase-Tax pull-down and coimmunoprecipitation experiments demonstrated that there is a direct physical association between Tax and HDAC1. Importantly, biotinylated chromatin pull-down assays demonstrated that Tax inhibits and/or dissociates the binding of HDAC1 to the HTLV-1 promoter. Our results provide evidence that Tax interacts directly with HDAC1 and regulates binding of the repressor to the HTLV-1 promoter.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Virus Tumor Biology Section, Basic Research Laboratory, NCI, Bldg. 41, Rm. B201, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: (301) 496-0986. Fax: (301) 496-4951. E-mail: bradyj{at}exchange.nih.gov.

Journal of Virology, July 2004, p. 6735-6743, Vol. 78, No. 13
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.13.6735-6743.2004




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