Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Bovine Herpesvirus 1 Tegument Protein VP22 Correlates with the Incorporation of VP22 into Virions

AUTOR(ES)

Ren, Xiaodi

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Tyrosine phosphorylation has been shown to play a role in the replication of several herpesviruses. In this report, we demonstrate that bovine herpesvirus 1 infection triggered tyrosine phosphorylation of proteins with molecular masses similar to those of phosphorylated viral structural proteins. One of the tyrosine-phosphorylated viral structural proteins was the tegument protein VP22. A tyrosine 38-to-phenylalanine mutation totally abolished the phosphorylation of VP22 in transfected cells. However, construction of a VP22 tyrosine 38-to-phenylalanine mutant virus demonstrated that VP22 was still phosphorylated but that the phosphorylation site may change to the C terminus rather than be in the N terminus as in wild-type VP22. In addition, the loss of VP22 tyrosine phosphorylation correlated with reduced incorporation of VP22 compared to that of envelope glycoprotein D in the mutant viruses but not with the amount of VP22 produced during virus infection. Our data suggest that tyrosine phosphorylation of VP22 plays a role in virion assembly.

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