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Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 1999, p. 3885-3894, Vol. 19, No. 5
0270-7306/99/$04.00+0
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Distinct Regulation of p53 and p73 Activity by Adenovirus E1A, E1B, and E4orf6 Proteins

Wilma T. Steegenga,1,* Avi Shvarts,2 Nicole Riteco,1 Johannes L. Bos,1 and Aart G. Jochemsen3

Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry and Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht University, 3508 TA Utrecht,1 Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis and Centre for Biomedical Genetics, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, 1066 CX Amsterdam,2 and Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis and Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RA Leiden,3 The Netherlands

Received 24 August 1998/Returned for modification 23 October 1998/Accepted 18 February 1999

Multiple adenovirus (Ad) early proteins have been shown to inhibit transcription activation by p53 and thereby to alter its normal biological functioning. Since these Ad proteins affect the activity of p53 via different mechanisms, we examined whether this inhibition is target gene specific. In addition, we analyzed whether the same Ad early proteins have a comparable effect on transcription activation by the recently identified p53 homologue p73. Our results show that the large E1B proteins very efficiently inhibited the activity of p53 on the Bax, p21Waf1, cyclin G, and MDM2 reporter constructs but had no effect on the activation of the same reporter constructs by p73, with the exception of some inhibition of the Bax promoter by Ad12 E1B. The repressive effect of the E1A proteins on p53 activity is less than that seen with the large E1B proteins, but the E1A proteins inhibit the activity of both p53 and p73. We could not detect significant inhibition of p53 functions by E4orf6, but a clear repression of the transcription activation by p73 by this Ad early protein was observed. In addition, we found that stable expression of the Ad5 E1A and that of the E1B protein both caused increased p73 protein expression. The large E1B and the E4orf6 proteins together do not target the p73 protein for rapid degradation after adenoviral infection, as has previously been found for the p53 protein, probably because the large E1B protein does not interact with p73. Our results suggest that the p53 and p73 proteins are both inactivated after Ad infection and transformation but via distinct mechanisms.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry and Centre for Biomedical Genetics, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80042, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone: 31 30 253 8961. Fax: 31 30 253 9035. E-mail: W.T.Steegenga{at}med.uu.nl.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, May 1999, p. 3885-3894, Vol. 19, No. 5
0270-7306/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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