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Journal of Virology, May 2005, p. 5594-5605, Vol. 79, No. 9
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.79.9.5594-5605.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Recruitment of CBP/p300, TATA-Binding Protein, and S8 to Distinct Regions at the N Terminus of Adenovirus E1A

Mozhgan Rasti,1 Roger J. A. Grand,1 Joe S. Mymryk,2 Phillip H. Gallimore,1 and Andrew S. Turnell1*

Cancer Research U.K. Institute for Cancer Studies, The Medical School, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom,1 Departments of Oncology and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada2

Received 13 October 2004/ Accepted 16 December 2004

The N-terminal region of the adenovirus (Ad) 12S E1A gene product targets several cellular proteins that are essential for the induction of S phase, cellular immortalization, cellular transformation, transcriptional repression, and transcriptional activation. The precise binding sites for these proteins, however, remain to be resolved. We therefore undertook an extensive site-directed mutagenesis approach to generate specific point mutants and to precisely map the binding sites for CBP, p300, TATA-binding protein (TBP), S4, S8, hGcn5, P/CAF, and Ran within the first 30 amino acids of the Ad5 12S E1A protein. We determined that although common residues within the N-terminal region can form partial binding sites for these proteins, point mutants were also generated that could discriminate between binding sites. These data indicate that AdE1A can target each of these proteins individually through distinct binding sites. It was evident, however, that the mutation of specific hydrophobic residues typically had the greatest effect upon AdE1A's ability to bind individual partners. Indeed, the mutation of L at positions 19 and 20 eliminated the ability of AdE1A to interact with any of the N-terminal binding proteins studied here. Interestingly, although TBP and S8 or CBP/p300 can exist as functional complexes, RNA interference revealed that the recruitment of either TBP, S8, or CBP/p300 to AdE1A was not dependent upon the expression of the other proteins. These data further indicate that AdE1A can target individual partner proteins in vivo and that it does not necessarily recruit these proteins indirectly as components of larger macromolecular complexes. Finally, we took advantage of the fine-mapping data to ascertain which proteins were targeted during the transformation process. Consistent with previous studies, CBP/p300 was found to be targeted by AdE1A during this process, although our data suggest that binding to other N-terminal proteins is also important for transformation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Cancer Research U.K. Institute for Cancer Studies, The Medical School, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-121-414-4483. Fax: 44-121-414-4486. E-mail: A.S.Turnell{at}bham.ac.uk.

Journal of Virology, May 2005, p. 5594-5605, Vol. 79, No. 9
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.79.9.5594-5605.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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