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Nucleic Acids Research, 1991, Vol. 19, No. 23 6579-6586
© 1991

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The C-terminal 70 amino acids of the adenovirus E4-ORF6/7 protein are essential and sufficient for E2F complex formation

Robert J. O'Connor and Patrick Hearing*

Department of Microbiology, Health Sciences Center, state University of New York and Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-8621, USA

*To whom correspondence shoul be addressed

Received July 15, 1991. Revised October 30, 1991. Accepted October 30, 1991.

E2F is a cellular transcription factor that binds to the adenovirus (Ad) E1A enhancer and E2aE promoter regions, to the cellular c-myc P2 and dihydrofolate reductase promoters, and to other viral and cellular regulatory regions. The binding activity of E2F to the Ad E2aE promoter is dramatically increased during an adenovirus infection (termed E2F induction). E2F induction is dependent on the expression of the 150 amino acid E4-ORF6/7 protein which forms a direct, physical complex with E2F to mediate the cooperative and stable binding of E2F to inverted sites in the E2aE promoter. Using in vitro DNA binding assays to measure the formation of the infection-specific complexes, we have defined the minimal domain of the E4-ORF6/7 protein, the C-terminal 70 amino acids, required to complex with E2F and stabilize its binding at the E2aE promoter. The ability of mutant E4-ORF6/7 proteins to form the stable E2F-E2aE promoter complex in vitro correlated well with their ability to trans-activate E2 transcription in vivo. These observations support a model in which the E4-ORF6/7 protein binds to E2F to induce the cooperative binding of two E2F molecules to the E2aE promoter thereby activating E2 transcription


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