Transcriptional perturbations caused by SV40 large T antigen and its fragments

The small genome of polyomaviruses encodes a limited number of proteins that are highly dependent on interactions with host cell proteins for efficient viral replication. The SV40 large T antigen (LT) contains several discrete functional domains that contribute to the viral life cycle, including the DNA binding and helicase domains. In addition, the LT the C-terminal region is required for lytic infection in certain restrictive cell types. To understand how LT affects the host cell to facilitate viral replication, we expressed full-length or functional domains of LT in cells and identified interacting cellular proteins and performed expression profiling. LT perturbed the expression of p53 target genes and subsets of cell-cycle dependent genes regulated by the DREAM and the B-Myb-MuvB complexes.

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Fine DA, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Padi M, Korkhin A, James RL, Adelmant G, Yoon R, Guo L, Berrios C, Zhang Y, Calderwood MA, Velmurgan S, Cheng J, Marto JA, Hill DE, Cusick ME, Vidal M, Florens L, Washburn MP, Litovchick L, DeCaprio JA