title: Tyrosine phosphorylation of bovine herpesvirus 1 tegument protein VP22 correlates with the incorporation of VP22 into virions.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1581, USA.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Harms
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Splitter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D007242:Herpesvirus 1, Bovine / Q000502:physiology*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D014443:Tyrosine; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D014771:Virion / Q000502:physiology; D019065:Virus Assembly
chemical_list: D015678:Viral Structural Proteins; C434023:tegument protein VP22, bovine herpesvirus 1; D014443:Tyrosine