Abstract
The Autographa californica multinucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus has six genes required and three genes stimulatory for transient DNA replication. We demonstrate that the products of two of these genes, LEF-1 and LEF-2, interact in both two-hybrid assays using Saccharomyces cerevisiae and glutathione S-transferase fusion affinity assays. Using yeast-two-hybrid assays, we mapped the interaction domain of LEF-2 to amino acids between positions 20 and 60. Extensive deletion analyses of LEF-1 failed to reveal a delimited interaction domain, suggesting that there may be essential secondary structural elements that are inactivated by these deletions. All clones expressing LEF-1 and LEF-2 that were unable to interact also failed to support significant levels of transient DNA replication, suggesting that this interaction is required for DNA replication. Sequence analysis of LEF-1 revealed a primase-like motif, WVVDAD. When this motif was mutated to WVVQAD, LEF-1 no longer supported transient DNA replication.
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