Distinctive charge configurations in proteins of the Epstein-Barr virus and possible functions.
AUTOR(ES)
Blaisdell, B E
RESUMO
The protein products of several open reading frames (ORFs) of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are remarkable in their distribution of charged residues. The nuclear antigen proteins EBNA1-EBNA4 of the EBV latent state contain separate significant clusters of charge of each sign. They (excepting EBNA4) also feature distinctive periodic charge patterns [e.g., (+, O)8, (O, -, -)7] and significant tandem repeats. None of the other ORFs (about 80) of the genome possess the conjunction of these properties. Only the protein encoded from BMLF1, the first immediate early transactivator protein, contains significant multiple charge clusters and periodic charge patterns. All proteins that contain significant repeats also contain at least one significant charge cluster of a single sign. These include EBNA5 and LYDMA produced during latency and BZLF1, whose expression terminates latency and initiates productive growth. It is reasonable to conclude that these aggregate significant charge configurations and repeats are important functionally for the latent existence and for the initiation of the lytic cycle and may be characteristic of these conditions. We discuss how large multimeric protein structures bound together by clusters of unlike charge may provide a mechanism for regulation of the expression of these proteins.
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