Abstract

In the last grant period this laboratory was able to play a major role in the discovery that the amino terminus common to all T antigens in the SV40/polyoma family of viruses is a functional dnaJ domain. This discovery, which was the work of a group of labs in the papova virus field, stands as a milestone in the study of these viruses. The viral J domain """"""""function"""""""" plays a role in viral replication, regulation of the host cell cycle, and transformation. It is possible that the J domain may underlie other viral processes such as virus assembly as well. It is now time to bring our studies of the J domain to a more mechanistic level. In the coming grant period the molecular mechanisms by which the J domain of SV40 virus enhances DNA replication and frees the E2F complex from inhibition by the Rb family of tumor suppressor proteins will be elucidated.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
2P01CA050661-11
Application #
6102574
Study Section
Project Start
1999-05-01
Project End
2000-02-29
Budget Start
1998-10-01
Budget End
1999-09-30
Support Year
11
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
149617367
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02215

  Publications

Becker, Jürgen C; Stang, Andreas; Hausen, Axel Zur et al. (2018) Epidemiology, biology and therapy of Merkel cell carcinoma: conclusions from the EU project IMMOMEC. Cancer Immunol Immunother 67:341-351
Becker, Jürgen C; Stang, Andreas; DeCaprio, James A et al. (2017) Merkel cell carcinoma. Nat Rev Dis Primers 3:17077
Denis, Deborah; Rouleau, Cecile; Schaffhausen, Brian S (2017) A Transformation-Defective Polyomavirus Middle T Antigen with a Novel Defect in PI3 Kinase Signaling. J Virol 91:
Starrett, Gabriel J; Marcelus, Christina; Cantalupo, Paul G et al. (2017) Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Exhibits Dominant Control of the Tumor Genome and Transcriptome in Virus-Associated Merkel Cell Carcinoma. MBio 8:
Cizmecioglu, Onur; Ni, Jing; Xie, Shaozhen et al. (2016) Rac1-mediated membrane raft localization of PI3K/p110? is required for its activation by GPCRs or PTEN loss. Elife 5:
Rouleau, Cecile; Pores Fernando, Arun T; Hwang, Justin H et al. (2016) Transformation by Polyomavirus Middle T Antigen Involves a Unique Bimodal Interaction with the Hippo Effector YAP. J Virol 90:7032-7045
White, Elizabeth A; Kramer, Rebecca E; Hwang, Justin H et al. (2015) Papillomavirus E7 oncoproteins share functions with polyomavirus small T antigens. J Virol 89:2857-65
Spurgeon, Megan E; Cheng, Jingwei; Bronson, Roderick T et al. (2015) Tumorigenic activity of merkel cell polyomavirus T antigens expressed in the stratified epithelium of mice. Cancer Res 75:1068-79
Galligan, Jeffrey T; Martinez-Noël, Gustavo; Arndt, Verena et al. (2015) Proteomic analysis and identification of cellular interactors of the giant ubiquitin ligase HERC2. J Proteome Res 14:953-66
Howley, Peter M; Pfister, Herbert J (2015) Beta genus papillomaviruses and skin cancer. Virology 479-480:290-6

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