Mutational analysis of open reading frame E4 of bovine papillomavirus type 1.
AUTOR(ES)
Neary, K
RESUMO
Open reading frame (ORF) E4 is a 353-base-pair ORF of bovine papillomavirus type 1. To determine the biological activities of this ORF in mouse C127 cells, we analyzed the effects of two constructed mutations which are predicted to prevent synthesis of ORF E4 proteins while leaving the amino acid sequence encoded by the overlapping ORF E2 unchanged. Neither mutation interfered with the abilities of the mutants to efficiently induce focus formation, induce growth in soft agarose, or transactivate an inducible bovine papillomavirus type 1 enhancer. Also, neither mutation prevented establishment of the viral DNA as an extrachromosomal plasmid in transformed cells. These results suggest that ORF E4 proteins are not required for these biological activities, and they are consistent with the observation of others (J. Doorbar, D. Campbell, R. J. A. Grand, and P. H. Gallimore, EMBO J. 5:355-362, 1986) that the ORF E4 protein of a human papillomavirus is associated with late gene expression during papilloma formation.
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