Simian virus 40 large tumor antigen on replicating viral chromatin: tight binding and localization on the viral genome.
AUTOR(ES)
Stahl, H
RESUMO
Pulse-labeled simian virus 40 (SV40) chromatin as well as uniformly labeled viral chromatin are immunoprecipitable by an SV40-specific tumor antiserum and therefore contain bound tumor antigen (T antigen). Single-stranded calf thymus DNA, immobilized on cellulose, competes effectively for T antigen binding with uniformly labeled nonreplicating, but not with pulse-labeled replicating, chromatin. Furthermore, T antigen dissociates in 0.5 M NaCl from nonreplicating chromatin and from purified SV40 DNA, whereas most T antigen remains associated with replicating chromatin even in the presence of 1.2 to 1.5 M NaCl. We used filtration through DNA-cellulose columns and treatment with high salt to prepare pulse-labeled immunoreactive viral chromatin. The viral DNA was digested before, and in other experiments after, immunoprecipitation with the restriction endonuclease HindIII. We found that SV40 DNA sequences, most probably representing the entire genome, remain in the immunoprecipitate after HindIII digestion, indicating an association of T antigen with origin-distal sections of replicating viral DNA. The results suggest that T antigen in replicating chromatin may be bound to regions close to replicating points. We performed control experiments with in vitro-formed complexes of T antigen and SV40 DNA. When these complexes were immunoprecipitated and HindIII digested we found, in agreement with previous studies, that only the origin containing the HindIII C fragment carried bound T antigen.
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