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Polyomavirus hr-t mutant-specific induction of a G2/M cell-cycle arrest that is not overcome by the expression of middle T and/or small T.

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:The polyomavirus hr-t class of mutants has served as a major prototype to study the function of middle T + small T in the virus lytic cycle, Biochem. Biophys. Acta 695 (2), 69-95). The properties of these middle T + small T defective mutants were defined by comparisons with "wild-type" strains reconstructed by marker rescue. Similar comparisons in the A2 genetic background have revealed a number of differences, J. Virol. 75, 8380-8389). Here we describe a major divergence in their effects on cell-cycle progression of both permissive mouse NIH3T3 cells and semipermissive Fischer rat FR3T3 cells. Infection of NIH3T3 or FR3T3 cells in serum-rich medium with wild-type A2 (WTA2) or WTA2-derived middle T + small T-defective mutants did not perturb cell cycling, tested up to entry into the third cycle. In contrast, infection with four hr-t mutants analyzed, examined in detail with mutant B2, resulted in an accumulation of cells in G2/M in a dose-dependent and serum-independent manner. The arrest began in the first cell cycle. At multiplicities of infection above 10 PFU/cell, 50-80% of the cell population became arrested by the end of the second cycle. FR3T3 arrested cells detached from the monolayer with a rounded up morphology. Three other hr-t mutants investigated were also found to arrest cells in G2/M. Expression of middle T and/or small T either in trans or in cis did not abrogate this cell-cycle arrest, as demonstrated in the latter case with the middle T + small T expressing strain "wtB2" obtained by repair of the B2 deletion. In FR3T3 cells, the induction of a cell-cycle arrest by wtB2 was accompanied by a severe delay and reduction in neoplastic transformation relative to WTA2 used at equal dose. Mutation(s) in the C-terminal domain of large T antigen, upstream of the site-specific DNA binding activity, is necessary for the cell-cycle block. The possible causes for the cell-cycle block are discussed.

journal_name

Virology

journal_title

Virology

authors

Spink KM,Fluck MM

doi

10.1016/s0042-6822(02)00030-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-03-15 00:00:00

pages

191-203

issue

eissn

0042-6822

issn

1096-0341

pii

S0042682202000302

journal_volume

307

pub_type

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Polyomavirus hr-t mutant-specific induction of a G2/M cell-cycle arrest that is not overcome by the expression of middle T and/or small T.