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Journal of Virology, July 2004, p. 7685-7697, Vol. 78, No. 14
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.14.7685-7697.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

E1B-55-Kilodalton Protein Is Not Required To Block p53-Induced Transcription during Adenovirus Infection

Urs Hobom and Matthias Dobbelstein*

Institut für Virologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35037 Marburg, Germany

Received 13 November 2003/ Accepted 16 March 2004

The adenovirus E1B-55-kDa protein binds and inactivates the tumor suppressor protein p53. However, the role of this interaction during infection is still poorly understood and was therefore examined here. Infection with a virus carrying the E1B-55-kDa mutation R239A, preventing the interaction with p53, led to the accumulation of p53. However, p53 target genes were not activated in the infected cells, although p53 phosphorylation did occur and the p53 antagonists Mdm2 and {Delta}Np73 did not accumulate. Deletion of E4orf6, alone or in combination with E1B-55-kDa, did not allow the induction of p53-responsive genes either. In transient reporter assays, the viral E1A-13S protein antagonized p53 activity; mutational analysis suggested that this depends partially on p300 binding, but it depends even more strongly on the interaction of E1A with the p400/TRRAP protein complex. However, viruses expressing E1A mutants lacking these binding activities, in combination with E1B-55-kDa R239A, still abolished p53 activity. In contrast, when the mutation of E1B-55-kDa at R239A was combined with a deletion of the apoptosis inhibitor E1B-19-kDa, infected cells showed more extensive apoptosis than after infection with single mutants, suggesting that accumulated p53, albeit transcriptionally inactive, might nonetheless enhance apoptosis. Despite extensive apoptosis of the infected cells, the deletion of E1B-19-kDa, in combination with the E1B-55-kDa mutation or in the presence of the constitutively active p53 mutant p53mt24-28, reduced virus replication less than fivefold. In conclusion, adenovirus does not need direct binding of E1B-55-kDa to inactivate p53, and forced p53 activity with consecutive apoptosis does not severely impair virus replication.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institut für Virologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Robert Koch Str. 17, 35037 Marburg, Germany. Phone: 49 6421 286 4318. Fax: 49 6421 286 8962. E-mail: dobbelst{at}mailer.uni-marburg.de.

Journal of Virology, July 2004, p. 7685-7697, Vol. 78, No. 14
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.14.7685-7697.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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