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Inhibition of Interferon-Inducible Gene Expression by Adenovirus E1A Proteins: Block in Transcriptional Complex Formation
Ist Teil von
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 1991-09, Vol.88 (17), p.7459-7463
Ort / Verlag
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Erscheinungsjahr
1991
Quelle
Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Infection with wild-type adenovirus 5, but not with a mutant lacking the E1A gene, prevented the induction by interferon (IFN) α of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity in HeLaM cell lines that had been permanently transfected with chimeric CAT reporter genes driven by the transcriptional regulatory regions of the IFN-responsive genes 561 and 6-16. Similar inhibition of IFN-inducible CAT activity was observed in cells that were cotransfected with the same reporter genes and plasmids expressing either the E1A 289- or 243-amino acid protein. These proteins also prevented the induction of CAT activity by IFN-γ from a cotransfected HLA-DRα-CAT gene. Experiments with E1A mutants mapped the inhibitory activity to amino acid residues 38-65 of these proteins. In a HeLa cell line permanently expressing the E1A 289-amino acid protein, the replication of vesicular stomatitis virus and encephalomyocarditis virus was not inhibited by IFN-α, suggesting a global blockade of IFN responses. In accord with this theory, induction of 561, 1-8, and (2'-5')oligoadenylate synthetase mRNAs by IFN was blocked in these cells at the transcriptional level. The observed transcriptional inhibition could be attributed to the lack of formation of the crucial IFN-stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3) transcriptional complex. As shown by mobility shift assays, this complex was not formed in the nuclear extracts of IFN-treated adenovirus-infected cells or IFN-treated E1A-producing cells. These nuclear extracts were deficient in both ISGF3α and ISGF3γ subunits. However, they did not block the formation of ISGF3 complex from exogenously added components.