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. 1997 Jul;17(7):3937-46.
doi: 10.1128/MCB.17.7.3937.

Interdigitated residues within a small region of VP16 interact with Oct-1, HCF, and DNA

J S Lai  1 , W Herr
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Interdigitated residues within a small region of VP16 interact with Oct-1, HCF, and DNA

J S Lai et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1997 Jul.

Abstract

Upon infection, the herpes simplex virus (HSV) activator of immediate-early (IE) gene transcription VP16 forms a multiprotein-DNA complex with two cellular proteins, Oct-1 and HCF. First, VP16 associates with HCF independently of DNA, and this association stimulates subsequent association with Oct-1 on the DNA target of VP16 activation, the TAATGARAT motif found in HSV IE promoters. We have analyzed the involvement of VP16 residues lying near the carboxy-terminal transcriptional activation domain of VP16 in associating with HCF, Oct-1, and DNA. To assay VP16 association with HCF, we developed an electrophoretic mobility retardation assay in which HCF is used to retard the mobility of a hybrid VP16-GAL4 DNA-binding domain fusion protein bound to a GAL4 DNA-binding site. Analysis of an extensive set of individual and combined alanine substitutions over a 61-amino-acid region of VP16 shows that, even within a region as small as 13 amino acids, there are separate residues involved in association with either HCF, DNA, or Oct-1 bound to DNA; indeed, of two immediately adjacent amino acids in VP16, one is important for DNA binding and the other is important for HCF binding. These results suggest that a small region in VP16 is important for linking in close juxtaposition the four components of the VP16-induced complex and support the hypothesis that the structure of the Oct-1-VP16 interaction in this complex is similar to that formed by the yeast transcriptional regulatory proteins MATa1 and MAT alpha2. We propose that HCF stabilizes this Oct-1-VP16 interaction.

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