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Volume 271, Number 45, Issue of November 8, 1996 pp. 28250-28258
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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A 38-kDa Host Factor Interacts with Functionally Important Motifs within the Autographa californica Multinucleocapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus Homologous Region (hr1) DNA Sequence

(Received for publication, March 22, 1996, and in revised form, August 19, 1996)

From the Eukaryotic Gene Expression Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India

We recently demonstrated that the Autographa californica multinucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus homologous region (hr1) enhances transcription from the viral polyhedrin promoter and also functions as a putative origin of replication (ori). Hr1, carrying five 28-base pair core palindrome units, has also been mapped with respect to its enhancer and ori functions (Habib, S., Pandey, S., Chatterji, U., Burma, S., Ahmad, R., Jain, A., and Hasnain, S. E. (1996) DNA Cell Biol. 15, 737-747). A 38-kDa host factor termed hr1-binding protein (hr1-BP) binds with high specificity and affinity (K_d ~6.5 × 10¹¹ M) to functionally important motifs within hr1. The core palindrome as well as sequences immediately flanking it are required for this interaction. Divalent cations are not essential, and ionic interactions play only a minor role in complex formation. hr1-BP binds through the minor groove of the double helix to multiple sites within hr1, and binding occurs as a function of the number of modules within hr1. Phosphorylation of hr1-BP is important for host factor-hr1 interaction. Hr1-BP differs in several respects from the other host factor, polyhedrin promoter-binding protein, described previously (Burma, S., Mukherjee, B., Jain, A., Habib, S., and Hasnain, S. E. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 2750-2757). When hr1-BP was sequestered out, in vivo, by a plasmid carrying hr1 alone, the hr1-mediated enhancement of reporter expression was abolished, demonstrating that the binding of hr1-BP may be crucial for the enhancer activity of the dual function hr1 element.

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