Vector expression of adenovirus type 5 E1a proteins: evidence for E1a autoregulation.
Vector expression of adenovirus type 5 E1a proteins: evidence for E1a autoregulation.
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5 型腺病毒 E1a 蛋白的载体表达:E1a 自动调节的证据。
DOI:
10.1128/mcb.5.10.2684-2696.1985
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Ziff,EB
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作者:
Smith,DH;Kegler,DM;Ziff,EB
We transiently expressed adenovirus type C E1a proteins in wild-type or mutant form from plasmid vectors which have different combinations of E1a and simian virus 40 enhancer elements and which contain the DNA replication origin of SV40 and can replicate in COS 7 cells. We measured the levels of E1a mRNA encoded by the vectors and the transition regulation properties of the protein products. Three vectors encoded equivalent levels of E1a mRNA in COS 7 cells: (i) a plasmid encoding thewt289-amino acid E1a protein (this complemented the E1a deletion mutantdl312 for early region E2a expression under both replicative and nonreplicative conditions); (ii) a vector for thewt243-amino acid E1a protein (this complementeddl312 weakly and only under conditions of high multiplicities ofdl312); (iii) a mutant, pSVXL105, in which amino acid residues 38 through 44 of the 289-amino acid E1a protein (which includes two highly conserved residues) are replaced by 3 novel amino acids (this also complementeddl312 efficiently). A fourth vector, mutant pSVXL3 with which linker substitution shifts the reading frame to encode a truncated 70-amino acid fragment from the amino terminus of the 289-amino acid protein, was unable to complementdl312. Surprisingly, pSVXL3 overexpressed E1a mRNA approximately 30-fold in COS 7 cells in comparison with the other vectors. The pSVXL3 overexpression could be reversed by cotransfection with awtE1a vector. We suggest thatwtE1a proteins regulate the levels of their own mRNAs through the recently described transcription repression functions of the 289- and 243-amino acid E1a protein products and that pSVXL3 fails to autoregulate negatively.