“…The pro-tumorigenic functions of the 55-kDa phosphoproteins encoded by the early region 1B (E1B-55K) of human adenoviruses are primarily linked to the modulation of the tumour suppressor p53 and consequently inhibition of programmed cell death and growth arrest. Subsequent steps of direct interaction (Sarnow et al, 1982a;Kao et al, 1990), transcriptional repression (Yew et al, 1994;Berk, 1998, 1999) and nuclear-cytoplasmic relocalization (Endter et al, 2001(Endter et al, , 2005 induce the complete silencing of p53-dependent tumour suppressive functions. However, previously described results suggest additional p53-independent mechanisms of E1B-55K induced cellular transformation involving cellular factors as Mre11 (Ha¨rtl et al, 2008) or the transcription factor Daxx (Sieber and Dobner, 2007).…”