Cytoskeletal targets for viral transforming proteins with tyrosine protein kinase activity.
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B M Sefton
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Phosphorylation and metabolism of the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus.
p60src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus, was found to contain 0.5 to 0.9 mol of total phosphate per mol of polypeptide. The protein is known to be phosphorylated at two sites, a serine in the amino-terminal domain and a tyrosine in the carboxy-terminal domain. Because our indirect analysis suggests that the serine is phosphorylated to approximately twice the extent of the tyrosine, we estimate that p60src contains approximately 0.3 to 0.6 mol of phosphoserine and 0.2 to 0.3 mol of phosphotyrosine per mol of polypeptide. p60src was found to represent approximately 0.02% of the total incorporated radioactivity in Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chick cells labeled with [35S]methionine for 48 h. This corresponds to approximately 500,000 molecules of p60src per cell. Pulse-chase experiments revealed that the half-life of p60src ranged from 2 to 7 h, depending on the strain of virus examined. The P60src of the Schmidt-Ruppin strain was significantly more stable than that of the Prague strain.
Avian Sarcoma Viruses↗
Structural analysis of virion proteins of the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus.
We have found six major polypeptides in virions of the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus grown in tissue culture: four glycoproteins, GP84, GP36, GP31, and GP28, and two non-glycosylated proteins, P51 and P23. In addition, we detected three minor species: two glycoproteins, GP90 and GP59, and one non-glycosylated protein, P14. Two-dimensional tryptic peptide mapping showed that GP36, GP31, GP28, and P23 comprise a group of closely related proteins which we have designated the "P23 family," but that the other proteins are distinct. Analysis by partial proteolytic digestion of P23 family, but that the other proteins are distinct. Analysis by partial proteolytic digestion of the P23 family labeled biosynthetically with [35S] methionine, and P23, labeled with [35S] formyl-methionine by in vitro translation of RNA from infected cells, revealed that the proteins of the P23 family differ in their amino-terminal domains. Similar analysis of GP31 and Gp36 labeled with [3H] mannose showed that the partial proteolytic fragments unique to these proteins were glycosylated. This suggests that differences in glycosylation in the amino-terminal domains contributes to the marked polymorphism os the P23 family. The results are discussed with respect to possible models for synthesis of the virion proteins.
Coronaviridae↗
Synthesis of coronavirus mRNAs: kinetics of inactivation of infectious bronchitis virus RNA synthesis by UV light.
Infection of cells with the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus results in the synthesis of five major subgenomic RNAs. These RNAs and the viral genome form a 3' coterminal nested set. We found that the rates of inactivation of synthesis of the RNAs by UV light were different and increased with the length of the transcript. These results show that each RNA is transcribed from a unique promoter and that extensive processing of the primary transcripts probably does not occur.
Coronaviridae↗
The transforming proteins of PRCII virus and Rous sarcoma virus form a complex with the same two cellular phosphoproteins.
P105 and P110, the presumptive transforming proteins of PRCII avian sarcoma virus, have been found to be present in transformed chicken cells in two forms: as monomers and as part of a complex which contains both a 50,000-dalton and a 90,000-dalton cellular phosphoprotein. The 90,000-dalton cellular protein was found to be identical to one of the proteins in chicken cells whose synthesis is induced by stress. The 50,000-dalton protein was found to contain phosphotyrosine when isolated from the complex and therefore may be a substrate for the tyrosine protein kinase activity which is associated with P105 and P110. These same two cellular phosphoproteins have previously been shown to be present in a complex with pp60src, the tyrosine protein kinase which is the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus. However, not all avian sarcoma virus transforming proteins with associated tyrosine protein kinase activities form a complex efficiently with these cellular proteins. Little if any of P90, the putative transforming protein of Yamaguchi 73 virus, was found in a complex with the 50,000-dalton and 90,000-dalton cellular phosphoproteins.
Alpharetrovirus↗
Antiserum specific for the carboxy terminus of the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus.
An antiserum specific for the carboxy terminus of p60src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus, was produced by immunization of rabbits with a conjugate of bovine serum albumin and the synthetic peptide NH2-Tyr-Val-Leu-Glu-Val-Ala-Glu-COOH. The carboxy-terminal six amino acids of this peptide correspond in sequence to that deduced for the carboxy terminus of the p60src of the Schmidt-Ruppin strain of Rous sarcoma virus of subgroup A. The p60src proteins of the several strains of Rous sarcoma virus and the cellular homolog of the viral transforming protein, p60c-src, comprise a polymorphic family of polypeptides. The anticarboxy-terminal serum reacted readily with the p60src proteins of three different strains of Rous sarcoma virus. In contrast, no precipitation of cellular p60c-src could be detected with this serum. This suggests that the viral p60src proteins have identical carboxy termini and that the carboxy terminus of cellular p60c-src may be different from that of viral p60src. The anticarboxy-terminal serum reacted poorly with the subpopulation of viral p60src which is present in a complex with two cellular phosphoproteins. Apparently, the presence of the two cellular proteins interferes with the recognition of p60src by the anticarboxy-terminal serum. It seems likely, therefore, that these two cellular proteins bind to the carboxy-terminal domain of p60src.
Amino Acid Sequence↗
Coronavirus proteins: biogenesis of avian infectious bronchitis virus virion proteins.
We examined the synthesis of viral structural proteins in cultured cells infected with the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus. Tryptic peptide mapping was used to determine the structural relationships of the intracellular proteins to the virion polypeptides. Pulse-chase experiments were performed to identify precursors to the virus-specific proteins. We found that the nucleocapsid protein, P51, and the small viral membrane proteins GP31, GP28, and P23 do not undergo post-translational proteolytic processing. In contrast, GP90 and GP84, the two large virion membrane proteins, were found to be produced by cleavage of a single precursor, GP155. This demonstrated that at least one coronavirus mRNA specifies two virion proteins.
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Coronavirus proteins: structure and function of the oligosaccharides of the avian infectious bronchitis virus glycoproteins.
The recent finding that the E1 glycoproteins of murine coronaviruses contain only O-linked oligosaccharides suggested that this unusual modification might be a distinguishing feature of coronaviruses and might play an essential role in the life cycle of this family of viruses. To examine these possibilities, we analyzed the oligosaccharide moieties of the membrane proteins of the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus. In addition, we determined the effect of inhibiting the glycosylation of these proteins on viral maturation and infectivity. Infectious bronchitis virus virions contain nine proteins. Four of these proteins, GP36, GP31, GP28, and P23, are closely related structurally and appear to be homologous to the E1 proteins of murine coronaviruses. We found that the oligosaccharides of GP31 and GP28 could be removed with endoglycosidase H and that neither of these glycoproteins was detectable in tunicamycin-treated cells. These two results indicated that GP31 and GP28 contain N-linked oligosaccharides. Therefore, O-linked oligosaccharides are not a universal feature of the small coronavirus membrane glycoproteins. Tunicamycin inhibited glycosylation of all of the viral glycoproteins but did not inhibit production of virions by infectious bronchitis virus-infected cells. The virions released by these cells contained only the three non-glycosylated viral proteins P51, P23, and P14. These particles were not infectious. Therefore, it appears that glycosylated infectious bronchitis virus polypeptides are not required for particle formation. However, the viral glycoproteins are apparently indispensible for viral infectivity.
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Vinculin: a cytoskeletal target of the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus.
Vinculin, a protein associated with the cytoplasmic face of the focal adhesion plaques which anchor actin-containing microfilaments to the plasma membrane and attach a cell to the substratum, contains 8-fold more phosphotyrosine in cells transformed by Rous sarcoma virus than in uninfected cells. Because the transforming protein of RSV, p60src, is a protein kinase that modifies cellular proteins through the phosphorylation of tyrosine and because phosphotyrosine is a very rare modified amino acid, this result is a very rare modified amino acid, this result suggests that vinculin is a primary substrate of p60src. Only trace amounts of phosphotyrosine were detected in myosin heavy chains, alpha-actinin, filamin, and the intermediate filament protein vimentin. The modification of vinculin by p60src may be responsible in part for the disruption of the microfilament organization and for the changes in cell shape and adhesiveness which accompany transformation by Rous sarcoma virus.
Amino Acids↗
Evidence that the Abelson virus protein functions in vivo as a protein kinase that phosphorylates tyrosine.
Both lymphocytes and fibroblasts that have been transformed by ABelson murine leukemia virus contain 6- to 12-fold increased levels of the rare modified amino acid phosphotyrosine in their proteins. This observation, coupled with the fact that the p120 protein encoded by this virus has been shown to undergo an apparent autophosphorylation to yield phosphotyrosine in vitro, suggests that Abelson virus encodes a protein kinase that phosphorylates tyrosine in transformed cells. These results are similar to those obtained previously with Rous sarcoma virus and suggest, by analogy, that the modification of cellular polypeptides through the phosphorylation of tyrosine may be involved in cellular transformation by Abelson virus. p120 isolated from transformed cells contains phosphoserine, phosphothreonine, and phosphotyrosine. The phosphotyrosine is found at two sites in the protein. p120 therefore may be a protein kinase that undergoes autophosphorylation in vivo.
Abelson murine leukemia virus↗
Amino-terminal sequence analysis of alphavirus polypeptides.
The single late 26S mRNA of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) directs the synthesis of the four viral structural proteins, C, E3, E2, and E1, and the recently described nonstructural protein, 6K. We report here partial NH2-terminal amino acid sequences of the SFV polypeptides E3 and 6K and of p62, the precursor to E3 and E2. In addition, were have determined a partial NH2-terminal sequence of the Sindbis virus homolog of 6K, the 4.2K protein. p62 and E3 of SFV have identical NH2-terminal amino acid sequences. Comparison of the partial NH2-terminal sequences of 6K of SFV and 4.2K of Sindbis virus with the deduced amino acid sequence encoded by the 26S mRNA of each virus reveals that the genes for these peptides are located in each case between those for E2 and E1. The order of the genes on the 26S mRNA of the alphaviruses is therefore 5'-C-E3-E2-6K-E1-3'. We discuss two mechanisms by which the nascent viral glycoproteins may be inserted into the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum.
Amino Acid Sequence↗
Evidence that there exist four classes of RNA tumor viruses which encode proteins with associated tyrosine protein kinase activities.
The transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus, p60src, the Abelson virus protein, p120, and the Y73 virus protein, p90, all have associated tyrosine protein kinase activities in vitro. Possible structural homology between these functionally related proteins was investigated by two-dimensional analysis of both methionine-containing and phosphate-containing tryptic peptides derived from biosynthetically labeled proteins. Marked differences were found between the maps of both [35S]methionine-labeled and 32P-labeled tryptic peptides. This suggests that the transforming gene of Rous sarcoma virus and the putative transforming genes of Abelson virus and Y73 virus are different. In addition, each of these genes has been shown previously to be unrelated to the putative transforming gene of Fujinami sarcoma virus, another virus which encodes a protein with associated tyrosine protein kinase activity. Therefore, it appears that there exist at least four distinct classes of functionally related RNA tumor viruses. Analysis of phosphorylated tryptic peptides did, however, reveal homology between one of the two phosphotyrosine-containing tryptic peptides of p90 of Y73 virus and the single phosphotyrosine-containing tryptic peptide of p60src of Rous sarcoma virus. Comigration of these two peptides in several different buffers and the identical mobility of their phosphorylated cleavage products after secondary digestion with protease V8 of Staphylococcus aureus indicated that p60src and p90 contain an identical site of tyrosine phosphorylation in vivo. The results are discussed with respect to the evolution of RNA tumor viruses which encode proteins with associated tyrosine protein kinase activities and the limitations of analysis of detecting homology between genes by both molecular hybridization and peptide mapping.
Abelson murine leukemia virus↗
Evidence that the phosphorylation of tyrosine is essential for cellular transformation by Rous sarcoma virus.
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Transforming gene product of Rous sarcoma virus phosphorylates tyrosine.
The protein kinase activity associated with pp60src, the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus, was found to phosphorylate tyrosine when assayed in an immunoprecipitate. Despite the fact that a protein kinase with this activity has not been described before, several observations suggest that pp60src also phosphorylates tyrosine in vivo. First, chicken cells transformed by Rous sarcoma virus contain as much as 8-fold more phosphotyrosine than do uninfected cells. Second, phosphotyrosine is present in pp60src itself, at one of the two sites of phosphorylation. Third, phosphotyrosine is present in the 50,000-dalton phosphoprotein that coprecipitates with pp60src extracted from transformed chicken cells. We infer from these observations that pp60src is a novel protein kinase and that the modification of proteins via the phosphorylation of tyrosine is essential to the malignant transformation of cells by Rous sarcoma virus. pp60sarc, the closely related cellular homologue of viral pp60src, is present in all vertebrate cells. This normal cellular protein, obtained from both chicken and human cells, also phosphorylated tyrosine when assayed in an immunoprecipitate. This is additional evidence of the functional similarity of these structurally related proteins and demonstrates that all uninfected vertebrate cells contain at least one protein kinase that phosphorylates tyrosine.
Avian Sarcoma Viruses↗
Relationship of polypeptide products of the transforming gene of Rous sarcoma virus and the homologous gene of vertebrates.
All vertebrate cells have been shown to contain a gene, sarc, that has some homology with the transforming gene of Rous sarcoma virus, src. We have compared the polypeptide products of the sarc gene, p60(sarc), of human, mouse, and chicken cells with the polymorphic polypeptide product of the src gene, p60(src), of several strains of Rous sarcoma virus by two-dimensional peptide mapping. p60(sarc) from chicken cells was clearly related to every viral p60(src). Eleven of its 13 methionine-containing tryptic peptides were present in some viral p60(src). Conversely, the other two peptides were not present in any p60(src) we have examined so far. The 11 peptides from p60(sarc) of chickens that were shared with viral p60(src), however, were not all present in any single viral p60(src). These 11 peptides most closely resemble those in the p60(src)s of B77 virus and the Prague strain of Rous sarcoma virus. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that cellular sarc is the progenitor of viral src. The p60(sarc)s of human, mouse, and chicken cells were so similar in tryptic peptide composition that they were more closely related to each other than were some viral p60(src)s. The two mammalian p60(sarc)s differed from avian p60(sarc) most notably in that they lacked a peptide that chicken p60(sarc) shares with all the viral p60(src)s. The similarity of these maps suggests that the sequence of the p60(sarc) polypeptide has diverged very little during evolution. This may imply that p60(sarc) is an essential cellular component.
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Vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein is anchored in the viral membrane by a hydrophobic domain near the COOH terminus.
We have determined the COOH-terminal and NH(2)-terminal amino acid sequences of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) glycoprotein (G). A sequence of 122 COOH-terminal amino acids was deduced from the complete sequence of a cloned DNA insert carrying 470 nucleotides derived from the 3' end of the G mRNA. Evidence presented indicates that this portion of the polypeptide includes the domains of G that reside inside the virion and span the lipid bilayer of the virion. This seems clear because a partial amino acid sequence of a fragment of G that remains associated with the membrane of the virion after exhaustive proteolytic digestions can be located unambiguously in the predicted sequence. This predicted sequence contains an uninterrupted hydrophobic domain beginning 49 amino acids and ending 30 amino acids from the COOH terminus. This region presumably spans the lipid bilayer. The COOH-terminal portion of 29 amino acids contains a high proportion of basic residues and resides inside the virion. The COOH-terminal portion of the VSV G protein therefore resembles in structure that of glycophorin, an erythrocyte membrane protein well characterized previously. The configuration of G in the viral membrane demonstrated here is probably similar for other viral glycoproteins, although this has not been tested as directly in any other case. From the sequence of a DNA primer extended on the RNA genome from the adjacent M protein gene into the G protein gene, we have deduced an NH(2)-terminal G protein sequence of 53 amino acids, including the leader sequence of 16 amino acids. Our sequence confirms, extends, and corrects two partial amino acid sequences reported for this region previously.
Amino Acid Sequence↗
Studies on the structure and function of the avian sarcoma virus transforming-gene product.
The protein kinase activity associated with pp60src of a mutant of RSV temperature sensitive for transformation was shown to be sixfold more labile than that of its wild-type parent at 45 degrees C when pp60src's synthesized in vitro were compared. Thus, a mutant that is temperature sensitive for transformation has a temperature-sensitive protein kinase activity. Analysis of the levels of protein kinase activity in immunoprecipitates from cells infected with four different temperature-sensitive mutants of RSV led to the surprising finding that two mutants had barely detectable levels of protein kinase activity even at the permissive temperature, whereas two others had levels of activity at the nonpremissive temperatures that were as great as 40% that of wild-type pp60src. Protein kinase activity of pp60src of NY68 was partially renatured when cells were shifted from 41 degrees C to 36 degrees C. This reactivation occurred in less than an hour and did not require protein synthesis. It was found that pp60src synthesized in vitro is phosphorylated. Finally, the methionine-containing tryptic peptides of pp60sarc immunoprecipitated from uninfected chick cells were very similar to those of viral pp60src.
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Temperature-sensitive transformation by Rous sarcoma virus and temperature-sensitive protein kinase activity.
The transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus, p60src, has associated with it a protein kinase activity. We examined whether a correlation exists between the cellular concentration of enzymatically active p60src and the degree to which chick cells are transformed by mutants of Rous sarcoma virus which are temperature-sensitive for transformation. Such a correlation does exist, but cells infected with some mutants could be shown to contain, at the nonpermissive temperature, an amount of protein kinase activity equal to 30 to 40% of that in a wild-type transformed cell. We quantified the amount of virus-induced protein kinase activity by precipitation of p60src with an excess of antitumor antiserum. Our initial measurements of activity were serious underestimates, due to the lability of the protein kinase activity associated with p60src of at least four temperature-sensitive mutants. In fact, no activity at all was associated with p60src of tsLA90 when immunoprecipitation was performed by standard means. However, when immunoprecipitation was performed with procedures which minimize inactivation, it became apparent both that cells transformed by tsLA90 contained protein kinase activity and that cells infected with either NY68 or BK5 contained at the nonpermissive temperature, one-third to one-half as much activity as wild-type transformed cells. This level of activity was much more than that arising from p60sarc in uninfected cells. In uninfected cells we found an amount of protein kinase activity which varied from 3 to 5% as much as that in a virally transformed cell. The lability of the protein kinase activity of each of these mutants is a further demonstration that this activity is essential for the transformation of cells by Rous sarcoma virus. So as to explain the high protein kinase levels in cells infected with NY68 and BK5 at the nonpermissive temperature, the idea that transformation may be a response to a small quantitative change in the total activity of p60src and the possibility that there may be more than one viral function which is essential for transformation are discussed.
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