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The homeobox protein MSX2 interacts with tax oncoproteins and represses their transactivation activity.
Twizere, Jean-Claude; Lefebvre, Laurent; Collete, Delphine et al.
2005In Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280 (33), p. 29804-11
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Keywords :
Activating Transcription Factor 4; DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology; Gene Products, tax/physiology; Hela Cells; Homeodomain Proteins; Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/physiology; Humans; Leukemia Virus, Bovine/physiology; Repressor Proteins/physiology; Trans-Activators/physiology; Transcription Factors/physiology; Transcription Factors, TFII/physiology
Abstract :
[en] Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) tax is an essential gene involved in the transcriptional activation of viral expression. Tax is also believed to be implicated in leukemogenesis because of its ability to immortalize primary cells in vitro. To gain insight into the molecular pathways mediating the activities of this important gene, we identified cellular proteins interacting with Tax. By means of a two-hybrid approach, we show that Tax specifically interacts with MSX2, a general repressor of gene expression. GST pull-down experiments and co-immunoprecipitation assays further confirmed binding specificity. Furthermore, the N-terminal residues 1-79 of MSX2 are required for binding, whereas the C-terminal residues 201-267 of MSX2 do not play a critical role. Whereas the oncogenic potential of Tax in primary cells was only slightly affected by overexpression of MSX2, the other function of Tax, namely LTR-dependent transcriptional activation, was inhibited by MSX2 in human HeLa and bovine B-lymphoblastoid (BL3) cell lines. This MSX2 repression function can be counteracted by overexpression of transcription factors CREB2 and RAP74. The Tax/MSX2 interplay thus results in repression of viral transcriptional activation possibly acting as a regulatory feedback loop. Importantly, this viral gene silencing is not strictly associated with a concomitant loss of Tax oncogenicity as measured by its ability to immortalize primary cells. And interestingly, MSX2 also interacts with and inhibits the transactivation function of the related Tax1 protein encoded by the Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1).
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Oncology
Author, co-author :
Twizere, Jean-Claude  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Lefebvre, Laurent
Collete, Delphine
Debacq, Christophe
Urbain, Patrice
Heremans, Hubertine
Jauniaux, Jean-Claude
Burny, Arsène ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Agro Biotech Gembloux
Willems, Luc  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA-Research - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Kettmann, Richard ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Language :
English
Title :
The homeobox protein MSX2 interacts with tax oncoproteins and represses their transactivation activity.
Publication date :
2005
Journal title :
Journal of Biological Chemistry
ISSN :
0021-9258
eISSN :
1083-351X
Publisher :
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baltimore, United States - Maryland
Volume :
280
Issue :
33
Pages :
29804-11
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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