Abstract: HPV16
E1 co-precipitated with HPV18
E1 in the cell lysates, and an HPV16
E1 mutant
Y379A, which bound to HPV18
E1 less efficiently, failed to inhibit HPV18 replication.
Method: The codon 379 of the
E1 gene in pF16E1 was changed from TAC to GCA by using PCR to produce pF16E1-
Y379A, which expres
Result: Furthermore, an amino-acid substitution mutant F16E1-
Y379A, which is supposed to negate the ability of
E1 to oligomerize on single-stranded DNA and to bind to the replication origin, did not inhibit HPV18 replication.
Result: Importantly, the OD mutant, F16E1-
Y379A, showed reduced binding efficiency compared to F16E1.