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online publication date 8 Mar 2005
doi: 10.1242/jcs.01727
Research Article
Nuclear localization of HTLV-I bZIP factor (HBZ) is mediated by three distinct motifs
Patrick Hivin,
Mélissa Frédéric,
Charlotte Arpin-André,
Jihane Basbous,
Bernard Gay,
Sabine Thébault,
and
Jean-Michel Mesnard*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: jean-michel.mesnard{at}univ-montp1.fr)
The genome of the human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) codes for a basic leucine zipper protein, HBZ, capable of repressing JUN activity and viral transcription. Transient expression in mammalian cells showed that HBZ was targeted to the nucleus, where it accumulated in nuclear speckles. By using a complementary set of deletion mutants, we report here that the nuclear targeting of HBZ is mediated by three distinct nuclear localization signals and that at least two are necessary for the translocation of HBZ to the nucleus. Moreover, the resulting mutant proteins distribute throughout the nucleoplasm and/or into the nucleoli, whereas the wild-type HBZ exclusively accumulates in nuclear speckles, suggesting that the integrity of the protein is required for its speckle localization. We also demonstrate that the HBZ-containing speckles do not correspond to Cajal bodies, splicing factor compartments, or promyelocytic leukemia oncoprotein bodies. Unexpectedly, by using immunogold electron microscopy, we found HBZ localized to heterochromatin. Until now, such characteristics had never been described for a transcription factor and could explain the inhibitory activity of HBZ.
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