Monoclonal antibody analysis of simian virus 40 small t-antigen expression in infected and transformed cells.

AUTOR(ES)

Montano, X

RESUMO

The monoclonal antibody PAb280 binds to small t antigen but not to large T antigen. Its binding site within the unique region of small t antigen was localized by studying its reaction with simian virus 40 mutants, other papovaviruses, and bacterial expression vectors coding for fragments of small t antigen. The antibody was used to define the cellular location of small t antigen by immunocytochemistry and by immunoprecipitation of subcellular extracts of infected cells. PAb280 reacts strongly with a cytoplasmic form of small t antigen that appears to be associated with the cytoskeleton and is not detected by antibodies directed to the common N terminus of small t and large T antigens. Immunoperoxidase staining of cells infected by the simian virus 40 defective strain SV402 with PAb280 and other anti-T antibodies demonstrated that this virus produced an N-terminal fragment of large T antigen as well as small t antigen. In cells infected by the virus, this fragment was located in the cell nucleus but was very unstable. These results suggest that the activity of the SV402 virus in transformation assays may not be entirely due to the action of small t antigen alone.

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