title: Serine- and threonine-specific protein kinase activities of purified gag-mil and gag-raf proteins.
abstract: Retroviruses carry cell-derived oncogenes (v-onc) that have the potential to transform cells in culture and induce tumours in vivo. One of the few carcinoma-inducing viruses is the acutely transforming retrovirus MH2, which carries the putative oncogene v-mil and the known oncogene v-myc. Recently, a high degree of homology was discovered between v-mil and v-raf, the transforming gene of the murine retrovirus 3611 murine sarcoma virus (MSV), whereas homology to v-src is low. Both viruses express their oncogenes as the gag-fusion polyproteins p100gag-mil and p75gag-raf (of respective relative molecular mass (Mr) 100,000 and 75,000), while the myc oncogene of MH2 is expressed by means of a subgenomic messenger RNA. We have recently demonstrated that p100gag-mil is not a nuclear protein. Here we report that purified p100gag-mil and p75gag-raf exhibit protein kinase activities in vitro which, in contrast to the src-related p130gag-fps of Fujinami sarcoma virus (FSV) and all other characterized oncogene-encoded protein kinases, phosphorylate serine and threonine but not tyrosine. Both types of protein kinases phosphorylate lipids in vitro.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D015683:Gene Products, gag; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D051379:Mice; D009857:Oncogenes; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D012694:Serine / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013912:Threonine / Q000378:metabolism; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D015683:Gene Products, gag; D014764:Viral Proteins; D013912:Threonine; D012694:Serine; D011494:Protein Kinases