Identification of a Phosphorylation Site within the P Protein Important for mRNA Transcription and Growth of Parainfluenza Virus 5
- 15 August 2011
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 85 (16), 8376-8385
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00618-11
Abstract
The viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (vRdRp) of paramyxovirus consists of the large (L) protein and the phosphoprotein (P). P is heavily phosphorylated, and it is thought that the phosphorylation of P plays a role in regulating viral RNA synthesis. However, no phosphorylation site within the P protein in paramyxovirus has been identified as playing a positive role in viral RNA synthesis in virus infection. Using mass spectrometry analysis, the threonine residue at position 286 of P of parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) was found phosphorylated. Mutation of T286 to alanine (T286A), aspartic acid (T286D), or glutamic acid (T286E) reduced minigenome activity. Recombinant virus containing a mutation at the T286 position (rPIV5-P-T286A) grew slower than wild-type virus; viral mRNA synthesis and protein expression of rPIV5-P-T286A were delayed. Biochemical studies showed that the binding of NP or L protein with the P mutants or tetramer formation by the mutant P proteins was unaltered from that for wild-type P. While we failed to rescue rPIV5-P-T286E virus, several revertant viruses were obtained. All non-wild-type revertants had mutations at T286 and showed defects in both minigenome activity and viral growth. This is the first time that a phosphorylation site within the P protein in paramyxovirus has been found to play a positive role in viral mRNA synthesis and virus growth.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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