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J Virol. 1987 November; 61(11): 3536-3542

Activation of mutated simian virus 40 enhancers by amplification of wild-type enhancer elements.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York 11724.

ABSTRACT

We show that duplication of any one of three separate simian virus 40 enhancer elements, A, B, or C, can compensate for loss of function in the remaining two. Simian virus 40 revertants containing point mutations within the A and C (dpm16) or B and C (dpm26) enhancer elements contain tandem duplications that include the remaining wild-type element. These simple tandem duplications can create enhancers 25-fold more active than that of the parental mutant. These revertants can arise by illegitimate recombination between heterologous viral genomes. This was demonstrated by the recombinants resulting from a mixed infection with the viruses dpm16 and dpm2, which contain mutations in the A and C elements and the B element, respectively.

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