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. 1991 Dec;65(12):6735-42.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.65.12.6735-6742.1991.

A discrete cis element in the human immunodeficiency virus long terminal repeat mediates synergistic trans activation by cytomegalovirus immediate-early proteins

P Ghazal  1 , J Young, E Giulietti, C DeMattei, J Garcia, R Gaynor, R M Stenberg, J A Nelson
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A discrete cis element in the human immunodeficiency virus long terminal repeat mediates synergistic trans activation by cytomegalovirus immediate-early proteins

P Ghazal et al. J Virol. 1991 Dec.

Abstract

The major immediate-early (IE) promoter of human cytomegalovirus directs the expression of several differentially spliced and polyadenylated mRNAs that encode isoformic proteins with apparent molecular masses of 55, 72, and 86 kDa. All of these proteins are potent transcriptional regulatory proteins. We are interested in the collateral interactions between human cytomegalovirus and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the context of dual infection of a cell. The roles of the specific IE protein isoforms and their respective response elements involved in trans activation of the HIV long terminal repeat (LTR) are not known. Here we present evidence that major IE proteins IE86, IE72, and IE55 are capable of trans-activating the HIV LTR in a T-cell line, HUT-78. The IE55 isoform noncooperatively stimulates the HIV LTR in the presence of either isoform IE72 or IE86. Interactions between isoforms IE72 and IE86, however, result in strong synergistic activation of the LTR. Our results suggest that a specific 155-amino-acid protein domain that is unique for the IE86 protein participates in this synergic interaction. Point mutational analysis of the LTR identified a distinct cis-acting target site, located between nucleotide positions -174 and -163, that mediates exclusively synergistic trans activation by the IE72 and IE86 proteins. Finally, this study underscores the role of a cellular intermediate(s) for communicating the synergic interactions between two IE trans activators.

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