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Nucleic Acids Research, 1993, Vol. 21, No. 24 5786-5793
© 1993

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A nuclear protein with enhanced binding to methylated Sp1 sites in the AIDS virus promoter

Peteranne Joel, Wei Shao and Karen Pratt*

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received March 9, 1993. Revised October 20, 1993. Accepted October 20, 1993.

We report here the discovery of HMBP, a protein in nuclei of human T-helper lymphocytes and other human cell types, which binds with enhanced affinity to a promoter element in the HIV-1 long terminal repeat when that element is methylated at CpGs, the target site of the human DNA methyltransferase. This promoter element contains three (degenerate) binding sites for Sp1, a general activator of transcription. Gel shift assays and footprinting experiments indicate that HMBP binding overlaps two of these methylated Sp1 sites. Although HMBP binds these methylated Sp1 sites, it does not bind consensus Sp1 sites. Competition studies, differences in binding site specificities, binding conditions, and, in some cases, chromatographic separation further distinguish HMBP from Sp1 and from each of four previously identified methylated-DNA binding proteins. HMBP binds hemimethylated DNA in a strand dependent manner. These binding characteristics suggest that HMBP may recognize newly replicated DNA and thereby play a role in differentiation. If HMBP is able to compete with Sp1 for binding at methylated, non-consensus Sp1 sites invivo and repress transcription, it may play a role in AIDS latency.


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