Display Settings:

Format

Send to:

Choose Destination

    J Virol. 1992 Dec;66(12):6841-8.

    Identification and cloning of a novel heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C-like protein that functions as a transcriptional activator of the hepatitis B virus enhancer II.

    Tay N, Chan SH, Ren EC.

    W.H.O. Collaborating Centre for Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

    Liver specificity of hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication has been attributed to the action of its second enhancer (EII). We report here the characterization of EII and the subsequent isolation of a novel liver-specific DNA-binding protein which binds to and activates EII. The cDNA clone of the protein, designated E2BP, was isolated from a lambda gt11 expression library constructed from the hepatoma cell line HuH-6 which was screened with a binding site probe derived from EII. Sequence analysis of E2BP revealed 86.6% homology with a rat heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C protein sequence, while conformational studies suggest a helix-loop-helix motif as a DNA-binding site. Cloned E2BP expressed in human fibroblasts by transient transfection displayed EII binding and activating characteristics similar to those of native E2BP in hepatocytes.

    PMID: 1433497 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

    PMCID: 240284

    Supplemental Content

    Click here to read Click here to read