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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 24, Pages 12402-12411Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.24.12402-12411.2001
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA13106, P01 CA013106] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM54598, R01 GM054598] Funding Source: Medline
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The human herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein VP16 induces formation of a transcriptional regulatory complex with two cellular factors-the POU homeodomain transcription factor Oct-1 and the cell proliferation factor HCF-1-to activate viral immediate-early-gene transcription. Although the cellular role of Oct-1 in transcription is relatively well understood, the cellular role of HCF-1 in cell proliferation is enigmatic. HCF-1 and the related protein HCF-2 form an HCF protein family in humans that is related to a Caenorhabditis elegans homolog called CeHCF. In this study, we show that all three proteins can promote VP16-induced-complex formation, indicating that VP16 targets a highly conserved function of HCF proteins. The resulting VP16-induced complexes, however, display different transcriptional activities. In contrast to HCF-1 and CeHCF, HCF-2 fails to support VP16 activation of transcription effectively. These results suggest that, along with HCF-1, HCF-2 could have a role, albeit probably a different role, in HSV infection. CeHCF can mimic HCF-1 for both association with viral and cellular proteins and transcriptional activation, suggesting that the function(s) of HCF-1 targeted by VP16 has been highly conserved throughout metazoan evolution.
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