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Mol Cell Biol. 1985 Oct; 5(10): 2653–2661.
doi: 10.1128/mcb.5.10.2653
PMCID: PMC367002
PMID: 2942760

E1A 13S and 12S mRNA products made in Escherichia coli both function as nucleus-localized transcription activators but do not directly bind DNA.

B Ferguson, B Krippl, O Andrisani, N Jones, H Westphal, and M Rosenberg
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Abstract

We previously purified and characterized functionally the Escherichia coli-expressed product of the human subgroup C adenovirus E1A 13S mRNA (B. Ferguson, N. Jones, J. Richter, and M. Rosenberg, Science 224:1343-1346, 1984; B. Krippl, B. Ferguson, M. Rosenberg, and H. Westphal, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81:6988-6992, 1984). We have now expressed in E. coli and purified the protein product encoded by the human subgroup C adenovirus E1A 12S mRNA and have compared the functional properties of this protein with those of the E1A 13S mRNA product. Using microinjection techniques to introduce these proteins into mammalian cells, we found that the E1A 12S mRNA product, like the 13S mRNA product, localized rapidly to the cell nucleus and induced adenovirus gene expression. Although both E1A gene products localized to the nucleus and stimulated adenovirus gene transcription, these proteins did not directly bind to DNA under conditions in which a known DNA-binding protein, the human c-myc gene product, bound DNA efficiently. Thus, the E1A and myc gene products, which have been related both structurally and functionally, exhibit distinctly different biochemical properties.

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