Protein kinase A-dependent binding of a nuclear factor to the 21-base-pair repeat of the human T-cell leukemia virus type I long terminal repeat.
AUTOR(ES)
Poteat, H T
RESUMO
The long terminal repeat (LTR) of the human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) contains an imperfect repeat of 21 nucleotides which governs the response to the virus trans-activator protein tax and to cyclic AMP. In a murine thymocyte cell line defective in the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A, the response of the HTLV-I LTR to cyclic AMP is abolished and the response to tax is substantially diminished. This report shows that a factor present in nuclear extracts of wild-type cells binds to the HTLV-I 21-nucleotide sequence and that this binding activity is missing from the extracts of protein kinase A-defective cells. Treatment of nuclear extracts of protein kinase A-defective cells with the bovine protein kinase A catalytic subunit restores the binding activity, whereas treatment of wild-type nuclear extracts with a protein phosphatase destroys the binding activity. The binding factor is referred to as protein kinase A-dependent factor (PKAF). These results indicate that in murine thymocytes the response of the HTLV-I LTR to cyclic AMP depends upon the binding of a phosphorylated protein to the 21-nucleotide repeat sequence and that the response to tax is partially dependent upon binding of the phosphorylated protein. The results suggest a model in which the phosphorylation of a transcription factor by protein kinase A regulates HTLV-I gene expression.
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