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J Virol, August 1998, p. 6339-6347, Vol. 72, No. 8
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Cellular Components Interact with Adenovirus Type
5 Minimal DNA Packaging Domains
Susanne I.
Schmid
and
Patrick
Hearing*
Department of Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York
at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794
Received 4 March 1998/Accepted 6 May 1998
Adenovirus type 5 DNA packaging is initiated from the left end of
the viral genome and depends on the presence of a
cis-acting packaging domain located between nucleotides 194 and 380. Multiple redundant packaging elements (termed A repeats I
through VII [AI through AVII]) are contained within this domain and
display differential abilities to support DNA packaging in vivo. The
functionally most important repeats, AI, AII, AV, and AVI, follow a
bipartite consensus motif exhibiting AT-rich and CG-rich core
sequences. Results from previous mutational analyses defined a fragment
containing AV, AVI, and AVII as a minimal packaging domain in vivo,
which supports a functional independence of the respective
cis-acting sequences. Here we describe multimeric versions
of individual packaging elements as minimal packaging domains that can
confer viability and packaging activity to viruses carrying gross
truncations within their left end. These mutant viruses directly rate
the functional role that different packaging elements play relative to
each other. The A repeats are likely to be binding sites for limiting,
trans-acting packaging factors of cellular and/or viral
origin. We report here the characterization of two cellular binding
activities interacting with all of the minimal packaging domains in
vitro, an unknown binding activity termed P-complex, and the
transcription factor chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription
factor. The binding of both activities is dependent on the integrity of
the AT-rich, but not the CG-rich, consensus half site. In the case of
P-complex, binding affinity for different minimal packaging domains in
vitro correlates well with their abilities to support DNA packaging in
vivo. Interestingly, P-complex interacts not only with packaging
elements but also with the left terminus of the viral genome, the core
origin of replication. Our data implicate cellular factors as
components of the viral packaging machinery. The dual binding
specificity of P-complex for packaging and replication sequences may
further suggest a direct involvement of left-end replication sequences
in viral DNA encapsidation.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Health Sciences Center,
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Phone: (516) 632-8813. Fax: (516) 632-8891. E-mail:
hearing{at}asterix.bio.sunysb.edu.

Present address: Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA 02115.
J Virol, August 1998, p. 6339-6347, Vol. 72, No. 8
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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