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J. Virol., 03 1996, 1602-1611, Vol 70, No. 3
H Sakai, T Yasugi, JD Benson, JJ Dowhanick and PM Howley
The E2 gene products of papillomavirus play key roles in viral replication,
both as regulators of viral transcription and as auxiliary factors that act
with E1 in viral DNA replication. We have carried out a detailed
structure-function analysis of conserved amino acids within the N-terminal
domain of the human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) E2 protein. These
mutants were tested for their transcriptional activation activities as well
as transient DNA replication and E1 binding activities. Analysis of the
stably expressed mutants revealed that the transcriptional activation and
replication activities of HPV16 E2 could be dissociated. The 173A mutant
was defective for the transcriptional activation function but retained
wild-type DNA replication activity, whereas the E39A mutant wild-type
transcriptional activation function but was defective in transient DNA
replication assays. The E39A mutant was also defective for HPV16 E1 binding
in vitro, suggesting that the ability of E2 protein to form a complex with
E1 appears to be essential for its function as an auxiliary replication
factor.
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology
Targeted mutagenesis of the human papillomavirus type 16 E2 transactivation domain reveals separable transcriptional activation and DNA replication functions
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA.
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