Involvement of Human CRM1 (Exportin 1) in the Export and Multimerization of the Rex Protein of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1

AUTOR(ES)

Hakata, Yoshiyuki

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

We investigated the role of human CRM1 (hCRM1) (exportin 1) in the function of Rex protein encoded by human T-cell leukemia virus type 1. hCRM1 promoted the export of Rex protein from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. A Rex protein with a mutation in the activation domain, RexM90, lost both the ability to bind to hCRM1 and the ability to multimerize. The overexpression of hCRM1 complemented the functional defects of RexM64, which contains a mutation in the multimerization domain of Rex. A dominant-negative mutant of Rex which sequesters cofactors of Rex abrogated multimerization as well as the activity of the wild-type Rex protein. These two functions were simultaneously restored by the overexpression of hCRM1. Taken together, these results suggest that hCRM1 plays important roles in the multimerization and export of Rex protein.

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