title: Marek's disease virus VP22: subcellular localization and characterization of carboxyl terminal deletion Mutations.
abstract: Marek's disease virus (MDV) is an alphaherpesvirus that causes T cell lymphoma and severe immunosuppression in chickens. The MDV UL49 gene, which encodes the tegument viral protein 22 (VP22), has been expressed as a green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion protein in chicken embryonic fibroblasts to examine its subcellular localization. As with both human herpesvirus 1 and bovine herpesvirus 1VP22-GFP fusion proteins, the MDV VP22-GFP product binds to microtubules and heterochromatin. In addition, the MDV protein also binds to the centrosomes. During mitosis, VP22-GFP binds to sister chromatids, but dissociates from the centrosomes and the microtubules of the mitotic spindle. A series of VP22 carboxy terminal truncation mutants were constructed to define regions responsible for these binding properties. These mutants identified separable domains or motifs responsible for binding microtubules and heterochromatin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19717, USA.
authors.forename: Lauren A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
authors.forename: Jill A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Clemmer
authors.forename: Kirk
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Czymmek
authors.forename: Carl J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002642:Chick Embryo; D017353:Gene Deletion; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D008164:Luminescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D025922:Mardivirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000378:metabolism*; D014162:Transfection; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008164:Luminescent Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins