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Adenovirus transforming 19-kD T antigen has an enhancer-dependent trans-activation function and relieves enhancer repression mediated by viral and cellular genes.

Institute for Molecular Virology, St. Louis University Medical Center, Missouri 63110.

Abstract

The adenovirus E1b region codes for two major tumor antigens of 19 kD and 55 kD, which are important for cell transformation. Our results indicate that the 19-kD T antigen possesses two enhancer-regulatory functions. It can trans-activate enhancer-linked promoters and relieve enhancer repression mediated by viral and cellular repressors. The 19-kD activation function enhances expression from different promoters linked to SV40, Py, Ela, and immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancers. Enhancer activation by the 19-kD protein appears to be cell type-specific, since the heavy-chain and SV40 enhancers were not trans-activated in myeloma cells whereas the same enhancers were trans-activated in fibroblasts. The 19-kD enhancer activation function appears to be dominant over the enhancer repression function of E1a, since in cells expressing the 19-kD protein there is no significant repression despite a large increase in E1a expression. The 19-kD T antigen activates the Py enhancer in undifferentiated F9 cells indicating that the activation function of E1b masks enhancer repression by an "E1a-like" cellular gene product. The enhancer activation function of the 19-kD T antigen may be important for cell transformation and cell differentiation.

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