MCB
Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Right arrow Copyright Information
Right arrow Books from ASM Press
Right arrow MicrobeWorld
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Harrod, R.
Right arrow Articles by Giam, C.-Z.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Harrod, R.
Right arrow Articles by Giam, C.-Z.

 Previous Article  |  Next Article 

Molecular and Cellular Biology, September 1998, p. 5052-5061, Vol. 18, No. 9
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

An Exposed KID-Like Domain in Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Tax Is Responsible for the Recruitment of Coactivators CBP/p300

Robert Harrod,1 Yong Tang,1 Christophe Nicot,1 Hsieng S. Lu,2 Alex Vassilev,3 Yoshihiro Nakatani,3 and Chou-Zen Giam1,*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 208141; Department of Protein Structure, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California 913202; and Laboratory of Molecular Growth Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-27533

Received 7 April 1998/Returned for modification 18 May 1998/Accepted 9 June 1998

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) transcriptional activation is mediated by the viral transactivator, Tax, and three 21-bp repeats (Tax response element [TxRE]) located in the U3 region of the viral long terminal repeat (LTR). Each TxRE contains a core cyclic AMP response element (CRE) flanked by 5' G-rich and 3' C-rich sequences. The TxRE binds CREB (CRE-binding protein) and Tax to form a ternary complex and confers Tax-dependent transactivation. Recent data indicate that Tax functions as a specific link to connect CREB-binding protein (CBP)/p300 in a phosphorylation-independent manner to CREB/ATF-1 assembled on the viral 21-bp repeats. Glutathione S-transferase pull-down performed with Tax deletion mutants and peptide competition have localized the site in Tax critical for binding CBP/p300 to a highly protease-sensitive region around amino acid residues 81 to 95 (81QRTSKTLKVLTPPIT95) which lies between the domains previously proposed to be important for CREB binding and Tax subunit dimerization. Amino acid residues around the trypsin- and chymotrypsin-sensitive sites (88KVL90) of Tax bear resemblance to those in the kinase-inducible domain of CREB (129SRRPSYRKILNE140) surrounding Ser-133, which undergoes signal-induced phosphorylation to recruit CBP/p300. Site-directed mutagenesis of residues in this domain (R82A, K85A, K88A, and V89A) resulted in proteins which failed to transactivate from the HTLV-1 LTR in vivo. These mutants (K85A, K88A, and V89A) bind CREB with similar affinities as wild-type Tax, yet interaction with CBP/p300 is abrogated in various biochemical assays, indicating that the recruitment of CBP/p300 is crucial for Tax transactivation. A Tax mutant, M47, defective in the COOH-terminal transactivation domain, continued to interact with CBP/p300, suggesting that interactions with additional cellular factors are required for proper Tax function.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone: (301) 295-9624. Fax: (301) 295-1545. E-mail: giam{at}bob.usuf2.usuhs.mil.


Molecular and Cellular Biology, September 1998, p. 5052-5061, Vol. 18, No. 9
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



This article has been cited by other articles:




Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
J. Bacteriol. J. Virol. Eukaryot. Cell
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. All ASM Journals

Copyright © 1998 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.