Abstract
A modular gene with a cDNA encoding the polyomavirus middle T antigen positioned behind the adenovirus type 2 major late promoter and tripartite leader was substituted for the E1a region in an adenovirus vector. Permissive human cells infected with this recombinant produce middle T protein at levels as high as those of the most abundant late adenoviral proteins, e.g., hexon or fiber. This level represents at least a 40-fold increase over that observed in a polyomavirus lytic infection of murine cells. Partial proteolytic mapping showed that this protein has the same primary structure as middle T protein produced in polyomavirus-infected murine cells. The adenovirus recombinant-generated middle T protein exhibited in vitro kinase activity, although at an approximately 10-fold-lower specific activity than that of middle T protein from polyomavirus-infected murine cells. Comparison of the expression levels of this middle T antigen-containing adenovirus vector with a similar construction encoding dihydrofolate reductase suggested that the translation efficiency of the inserted gene was dependent upon the proximity of its initiation codon to the tripartite leader. We tested this possibility by comparing three dihydrofolate reductase recombinants among which the spacing between the initiation codon and tripartite leader varied from 188 to 36 nucleotides. The efficiency of expression of dihydrofolate reductase protein dramatically increased as this spacing was reduced.
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