Genetic Analysis of Bovine Papillomavirus Type 1 Trans-acting Replication Factors

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Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 1985 Mar 1

PMID 2983102

Citations 81

Authors

M Lusky

M R Botchan

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Abstract

The establishment of bovine papillomavirus type 1 in somatic mammalian cells is mediated by extrachromosomal replication and stable maintenance of the viral genome as a multicopy nuclear plasmid. Previous studies indicated the requirement of viral gene expression for bovine papillomavirus type 1 replication and plasmid maintenance (M. Lusky and M. R. Botchan, Cell 36:391-401, 1984; Turek et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79:7914-7918, 1982). To define the viral genes which are necessary for this process, we constructed a series of specific mutations within the viral genome and assayed the resulting mutants for their ability to replicate extrachromosomally in mouse C127 cells. We report here that the bovine papillomavirus type 1 trans-acting replication factors were encoded by at least two distinct viral genes since the mutants fell into two complementation groups, rep and cop. Mutants (rep-) affecting the E1 open reading frame (ORF) failed to replicate bovine papillomavirus type 1 DNA extrachromosomally and would integrate into chromosomal DNA. We suggest that this gene product is one of the factors required to specifically preclude the integration event. Mutants (cop-) affecting the E7 ORF were maintained in the extrachromosomal state; however, the copy number of the mutant genomes was reduced 100-fold compared with that of wild-type DNA. Analysis of single-cell subclones showed that each cell contained the mutant genomes at a copy number of one to two, indicating that the cop- phenotype did not reflect a simple segregation defect. We propose that the gene defined by mutations in the E7 ORF played a crucial role in stably maintaining the copy number of the viral plasmid at high levels. Genomes with mutations in the cop and rep complementation groups, when cotransfected, rescued the wild-type phenotype, extrachromosomal replication with a high, stable copy number for both types of plasmids. Therefore, the gene products acted in trans, and the mutations were recessive to the wild-type functions. One specific rep- mutant showed a 30-fold-increased transformation efficiency when compared with that of the wild-type genome. In addition, morphological transformation mediated by the cop- mutants appeared to be unstable. These results imply that either or both of the replication functions played some role in regulating the expression of the viral transforming functions.

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