Unusual regulation of simian virus 40 early-region transcription in genomes containing two origins of DNA replication.

AUTOR(ES)

Buchman, A R

RESUMO

As part of our efforts to create multifunctional vectors for the transduction of animal cells, a set of simian virus 40 recombinants were constructed which contain an inverted duplication of the region including the origin of viral DNA replication (ori) and the early-region promoter. The unusual aspects of the structure of these recombinant genomes revealed several unexpected features of their function. In particular, transcription from the early-region promoters on these recombinants occurred primarily after the start of DNA replication, and, in that sense, these promoters behaved as if they were late-region promoters. This behavior results from the fact that these genomes contain multiple ori segments, and, therefore, they replicate earlier and faster than wild-type virus DNA, thereby causing a precocious shift in the initiation of early-region transcription from sites downstream of ori to sites located upstream of ori. The abnormal expression from multiple ori genomes is consistent with our present notions regarding the replication-dependent shift in early-region transcriptional start sites (Buchman et al., Mol. Cell. Biol. 4:1900-1914). Since our experiments demonstrate that RNAs initiated upstream of ori contribute to T-antigen formation late in infection, we suggest that the shift in early-region transcription starts modulates large T-antigen production in concert with viral DNA replication.

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