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ArticleJournal of virology1999

Two regions of simian virus 40 T antigen determine cooperativity of double-hexamer assembly on the viral origin of DNA replication and promote hexamer interactions during bidirectional origin DNA unwinding.

K Weisshart, P Taneja, A Jenne, U Herbig, D T Simmons, E Fanning

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Article in Journal of virology, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Origin DNA melting and unwinding in DNA replication.Current opinion in structural biology · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

K WeisshartInstitute for Molecular Biotechnology, 07745 Jena, Germany.
P Taneja
A Jenne
U Herbig
D T Simmons
E Fanning
Vanderbilt University · USInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology · ATUniversity of Delaware · US

Funding

CONTROL OF SIMIAN VIRUS 40 AND CELLULAR DNA REPLICATIONR01GM052948 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI FRIEDMAN, KATHERINE LOUISE · 1995 to 2013
$6.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM52948NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052948
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphorylation of simian virus 40 large tumor (T) antigen on threonine 124 is essential for viral DNA replication. A mutant T antigen (T124A), in which this threonine was replaced by alanine, has helicase activity, assembles double hexamers on viral-origin DNA, and locally distorts the origin DNA structure, but it cannot catalyze origin DNA unwinding. A class of T-antigen mutants with single-amino-acid substitutions in the DNA binding domain (class 4) has remarkably similar properties, although these proteins are phosphorylated on threonine 124, as we show here. By comparing the DNA binding properties of the T124A and class 4 mutant proteins with those of the wild type, we demonstrate that mutant double hexamers bind to viral origin DNA with reduced cooperativity. We report that T124A T-antigen subunits impair the ability of double hexamers containing the wild-type protein to unwind viral origin DNA, suggesting that interactions between hexamers are also required for unwinding. Moreover, the T124A and class 4 mutant T antigens display dominant-negative inhibition of the viral DNA replication activity of the wild-type protein. We propose that interactions between hexamers, mediated through the DNA binding domain and the N-terminal phosphorylated region of T antigen, play a role in double-hexamer assembly and origin DNA unwinding. We speculate that one surface of the DNA binding domain in each subunit of one hexamer may form a docking site that can interact with each subunit in the other hexamer, either directly with the N-terminal phosphorylated region or with another region that is regulated by phosphorylation.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationVirus AssemblyVirus ReplicationAntigens, Polyomavirus TransformingBinding SitesDNA, ViralSimian virus 40Antigens, Polyomavirus TransformingDNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID9971803
PMCPMC104465
OpenAlexW1550760853

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