title: Transcription from the SV40 early-early and late-early overlapping promoters in the absence of DNA replication.
abstract: Transcription for a hybrid SV40 promoter-beta globin coding sequence recombinant initiates from both early-early (EE) and late-early (LE) SV40 start sites (EES and LES) in the absence of DNA replication. The 72-bp repeat is essential to potentiate the elements of the two overlapping EE and LE promoters (EEP and LEP). Two current models, which can account for the EE to LE shift in RNA chain initiation during the SV40 replication cycle, are that LE transcription is linked to replication and occurs on newly replicated DNA molecules or that there are two promoter elements, a stronger EEP and a weaker LEP, T antigen repressing the EEP late in infection. Our results support the second model. A 5'-TATTTAT-3' to 5'-TATCGAT-3' mutation in the putative SV40 TATA box decreases transcription from EES, increases transcription from LES, and inhibits DNA replication. Therefore, this element acts as a classical TATA box for transcription, and yet is also important for DNA replication.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire et de Génie Génétique de l'INSERM, Faculté de Médicine, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wasylyk
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wasylyk
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matthes
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wintzerith
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chambon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000952:Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D019556:COS Cells; D004261:DNA Replication / Q000235:genetics; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D005814:Genes, Viral; D005914:Globins / Q000235:genetics; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017354:Point Mutation; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D013539:Simian virus 40 / Q000235:genetics*; D016385:TATA Box; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014779:Virus Replication / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000952:Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming; D004279:DNA, Viral; D005914:Globins