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Highly purified virulent poliovirus preparations harbour an endogenous protein kinase. Enzyme activity increases significantly upon purification of infectious virus particles from infected HeLa cells. Enzyme activity is stimulated by divalent cations. The substrate specificity and the degree of stimulation of the kinase are dependent on the nature of the divalent cations included in the assay. The preferred substrates for this kinase are the viral capsid proteins. Exogenously added proteins such as α-casein, phosvitin and protamine are also phosphorylated by the kinase. Moreover, these proteins enhance the phosphorylation of viral proteins. In the presence of Mg++ VP 2 and VP 0 are highly phosphorylated, while in the presence of Zn++ only VP 2 and VP 4, but not VP 0 or exogenous proteins are phosphorylated.
Poliovirus associated protein kinase exhibits optimal activity at pH 7.9 in the presence of 10mm Mg++. The Km for ATP is shown to be 40 µm. By testing different nucleotides as phosphate donors a specificity of the phosphorylation reaction for ATP is demonstrated.
Phosphoamino acid analysis of hydrolysates of the substrates phosphorylated in the presence of Mg++ by thin layer electrochromatography and HPLC yielded phosphoserine and phosphothreonine from viral capsid proteins while hydrolysates of protamine yield only phosphoserine.
Destabilization of the viral capsid, e.g. by preincubation at 42° C for 20 minutes results in a stimulation of kinase activity. Moreover, phosphorylation of the poliovirus capsid proteins itself results in destabilization of the viral capsid. These findings suggest that phosphorylation of the viral coat proteins triggers or enhances the uncoating of poliovirus leading to the release of viral RNA.
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Lackmann, M., Ueckermann, C., Engelmann, K. et al. Properties of poliovirus associated protein kinase. Archives of Virology 95, 1–16 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01311330
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