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Construction and characterization of E1-minus replication-defective adenovirus vectors that express E3 proteins from the E1 region.

Abstract：

:Previous research has indicated that the adenovirus protein complex named RID, derived from the E3 transcription unit, functions to remove the receptors named Fas/Apo1/CD95 (Fas) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) from the surface of cells. (The RID complex is composed of the RIDalpha and RIDbeta polypeptides, previously named 10.4K and 14.5K, respectively.) In response to RID, Fas and EGFR appear to be internalized into endosomes and degraded in lysosomes. Fas is a death receptor in the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor superfamily. RID inhibits apoptosis via the Fas pathway, presumably because RID gets rid of Fas. Earlier work further showed that another adenovirus E3-coded protein, E3-14.7K, inhibits apoptosis induced by TNF. Most of the above studies have been conducted using viable virus mutants that lack one or more of the genes for RID, E3-14.7K, or E1B-19K (this protein, coded by the E1B transcription unit, also inhibits apoptosis via the TNF and Fas pathways). Some studies have also been conducted with the genes for RID or E3-14.7K transiently or stably transfected into cells. We now report a new approach to studying the E3 genes. We have constructed four E1-minus replication-defective vectors that have all the E3 genes deleted from their natural position and then reinserted, in different permutations, into the deleted E1 region under control of the cytomegalovirus immediate early promoter. Vector Ad/RID only has the genes for RIDalpha and RIDbeta. Vector Ad/14.7K only has the gene for E3-14.7K. Vector Ad/RID/14.7K only has the genes for RIDalpha, RIDbeta, and E3-14.7K. Vector Ad/E3 has all E3 genes, but there are two missense mutations in the gene for Adenovirus Death Protein. These vectors expressed RID and/or E3-14.7K, as expected. The RID-expressing vectors forced the internalization and degradation of Fas and EGFR, and they inhibited apoptosis induced through the Fas pathway. These vectors should be useful reagents to study the E3 proteins.

journal_name

Virology

journal_title

Virology

authors

Toth K,Kuppuswamy M,Doronin K,Doronina O,Lichtenstein D,Tollefson A,Wold W

doi

10.1006/viro.2002.1580

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-09-15 00:00:00

pages

99-108

issue

eissn

0042-6822

issn

1096-0341

pii

S0042682202915801

journal_volume

301

pub_type

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Construction and characterization of E1-minus replication-defective adenovirus vectors that express E3 proteins from the E1 region.