An enhanceosome containing the Jun B/Fra-2 heterodimer and the HMG-I(Y) architectural protein controls HPV 18 transcription.
Recent studies have reported new mechanisms that mediate the transcriptional synergy of strong tissue-specific enhancers, involving the cooperative assembly of higher-order nucleoprotein complexes called enhanceosomes. Here we show that the HPV18 enhancer, which controls the epithelial-specific transcription of the E6 and E7 transforming genes, exhibits characteristic features of these structures. We used deletion experiments to show that a core enhancer element cooperates, in a specific helical phasing, with distant essential factors binding to the ends of the enhancer. This core sequence, binding a Jun B/Fra-2 heterodimer, cooperatively recruits the architectural protein HMG-I(Y) in a nucleoprotein complex, where they interact with each other. Therefore, in HeLa cells, HPV18 transcription seems to depend upon the assembly of an enhanceosome containing multiple cellular factors recruited by a core sequence interacting with AP1 and HMG-I(Y).
Département des biotechnologies, URA 1644 du CNRS, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
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D001665:Binding Sites; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D019281:Dimerization; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D051921:Fos-Related Antigen-2; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism; D025741:HMGA1a Protein; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006609:High Mobility Group Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010957:Plasmids / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C052603:E6 protein, Human papillomavirus type 18; C052633:E7 protein, Human papillomavirus type 18; C497872:FOSL2 protein, human; D051921:Fos-Related Antigen-2; D006609:High Mobility Group Proteins; D009856:Oncogene Proteins, Viral; D016755:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D025741:HMGA1a Protein; D015500:Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase