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. 1988 Jul;62(7):2474-82.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.62.7.2474-2482.1988.

The product of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 modulator gene (M) is a phosphoprotein

L Thorner  1 , N Bucay, J Choe, M Botchan
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The product of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 modulator gene (M) is a phosphoprotein

L Thorner et al. J Virol. 1988 Jul.

Abstract

The M gene of bovine papillomavirus type 1 has been genetically defined as encoding a trans-acting product which negatively regulates bovine papillomavirus type 1 replication and is important for establishment of stable plasmids in transformed cells. The gene for this regulatory protein has been mapped in part to the 5' portion of the largest open reading frame (E1) in the virus. We constructed a trpE-E1 fusion gene and expressed this gene in Escherichia coli. Rabbits were immunized with purified fusion protein, and antisera directed against the product were used to identify the M gene product in virus-transformed cells. In this way a polypeptide with an apparent molecular mass of 23 kilodaltons was detected. The virus-encoded product is phosphorylated and can be readily detected by immunoprecipitation assays from cells transformed by the virus. Cells that harbor viral DNA without M as integrated copies do not produce this protein, whereas cells that harbor integrated viral genomes which are defective for another E1 viral gene important for plasmid replication, R, do produce this protein. The protein has an anomalously low electrophoretic mobility. An in vitro translation product of an SP6 RNA product of a sequenced cDNA predicts a molecular mass of 16 kilodaltons for the protein, and this in vitro translation product has an electrophoretic mobility identical to that of the in vivo immunoprecipitated protein. The results of these studies confirm our previous genetic studies which indicated that part of the E1 open reading frame defined a discrete gene product distinct from other putative products which may be encoded by this open reading frame.

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