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1. The ouabain-insensitive Na efflux in barnacle muscle fibres is promptly stimulated by injection of cyclic GMP. The minimal effective injected concentration is found to be about 10(-7) M. This effect of cyclic GMP could not be mimicked by injecting 5'-GMP. 2. External application of ouabain (10(-4) M) to fibres not pretreated with ouabain during the stimulatory response to cyclic GMP causes some inhibition of the Na efflux indicating that cyclic GMP does not cause appreciable inhibition of the Na:K pump. 3. The magnitude of the stimulatory response to injected cyclic GMP depends on the external Ca2+ concentration, as well as pHe but not on the Na+, K+ or Mg2+ concentration. It also depends on pHi, since acidification of HCO3-containing ASW leads to a greater enhancement of the response to cyclic GMP than is observed with acidified HERPES-ASW. 4. Stabilization of myoplasmic pCa by injecting 100 mM-EGTA before or after cyclic GMP fails to alter the magnitude of the response to the nucleotide. Enrichment of the fibre with Mg2+ at the time of injection of cyclic GMP leads to a reduced response. No change in response, however, is seen when the internal free Mg concentration is suddenly reduced by injecting 0.05 M-pyrophosphate with cyclic GMP. 5. Injection of cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase stimulatory modulator before cyclic GMP fails to enhance the response to the nucleotide. The same is true of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor protein. However pre-injection of 10(-2) M-papaverine enhances the response to a subsequent injection of 10(-3) M-cyclic GMP. 6. Injection of pure protein kinase inhibitor (1.6 x 10(-4) M) before 10(-3) M-cyclic GMP reduces the response to the nucleotide. 7. The argument is put forward that injected cyclic GMP stimulates the ouabain-insensitive Na efflux mainly by activating cyclic AMP-protein kinase rather than cyclic GMP-proton kinase.
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PMID:Stimulation by cyclic GMP of sodium efflux in barnacle muscle fibres. 4 Oct 90

The DNA sequence (8.9 kb) covering about 70% of the short unique region (Us) and part of the short inverted repeat of the Marek's disease virus type 1 GA strain was determined. Computer analysis of the sequence showed the presence of nine potential open reading frames (ORFs), consisting of more than 300 nucleotides in the Us region. Of these ORFs, four were found to be homologous to US10 (minor virion protein), US3 (protein kinase), US2, and US6 (gD) in the Us region of alpha-herpesvirus herpes simplex virus type 1. The protein kinase homologue is especially well conserved in alpha-herpesviruses. No counterpart of the nine MDV1 ORFs was found in the beta-herpes virus human cytomegalovirus and gamma-herpesvirus Epstein-Barr virus, suggesting that MDV1 is more similar to the alpha-herpesviruses. The junction of the Us region and the short inverted repeat was also determined by comparison between the sequences of the DNA fragments, including the terminal and internal repeats. Northern blot analysis showed that the Us region within the 8.9 kb sequence was transcriptionally active in MDV1-infected cells.
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PMID:Sequence determination and genetic content of an 8.9-kb restriction fragment in the short unique region and the internal inverted repeat of Marek's disease virus type 1 DNA. 128 82

If confluent fibroblasts are infected with the swine alpha-herpes virus, pseudorabies virus, ribosomal protein S6 becomes phosphorylated after a lag of approximately 2 h. When cell-free extracts were prepared from such cells in the presence of glycerol 2-phosphate and EGTA, a ribosomal protein S6 kinase activity was found to appear at approximately the same time as the phosphorylation in vivo. This protein kinase was similar to that activated in the same cells by replenishing the nutrient medium, and in other quiescent cells by the action of growth factors and mitogens. It was distinct from the previously described pseudorabies virus protein kinase, which is unique to infected cells. When medium from cells infected with pseudorabies virus was freed of virus and added to confluent fibroblasts, rapid activation of the ribosomal protein S6 kinase activity occurred. A similar, although more limited, effect could be seen when the pH of the medium was increased. These results suggest that the phosphorylation of ribosomal protein S6 in cells infected with herpes virus is a consequence of the production of a factor which initiates the metabolic programme for cellular growth. The possible function of this effect in the infective strategy of herpes viruses is discussed in relation to requirements for the replication of viral DNA.
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PMID:Activation of a ribosomal protein S6 kinase in mouse fibroblasts during infection with herpesvirus. 282 12

Transcription of proto-oncogene fos is induced by elevated levels of intracellular cAMP. We report that human c-fos promoter recombinants transfected into rat pheochromocytoma cells (PC12) and human choriocarcinoma cells (JEG-3) are induced by stimulation of adenylate cyclase and that this induction is diminished considerably in the mutant PC12 cell line A126-1B2, which is deficient in cAMP-dependent protein kinase II. An element centered at position -60 of the c-fos promoter, which encompasses a consensus cAMP response element (CRE), is sufficient to confer cAMP responsiveness to a herpes thymidine kinase/CAT fusion gene. The specific binding of a nuclear protein to the c-fos CRE can be competed by the somatostatin and alpha-chorionic gonadotropin (alpha-CG) promoter regions that contain CREs. Gel mobility shift assays with double-stranded oligonucleotides containing either the wild-type or mutated c-fos CRE sequence have demonstrated that binding occurs only to the wild-type CRE. The nuclear factor binding to the c-fos CRE is likely to be transcription factor CREB (CRE nuclear binding protein), because an affinity-purified 43-kD CREB isolated from PC12 cells binds efficiently in a DNA footprinting assay. Thus, regulation of the c-fos gene transcription appears to involve a mechanism common to many genes that respond to cAMP as a second message leading to cell growth and differentiation.
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PMID:Induction of proto-oncogene fos transcription through the adenylate cyclase pathway: characterization of a cAMP-responsive element. 285 Sep 67

Mouse fibroblastoid cells (Ltk-) that lack thymidine kinase (tk) activity are unable to respond to murine beta-interferon by establishing antiviral activity or inducing the double-stranded RNA-dependent enzymes, oligo[(2'-5')A] polymerase and Mr 68,000 protein kinase. In contrast, the parental L-929 cell line or clonal derivatives of Ltk- cells into which the herpes virus tk gene was introduced by DNA-mediated gene transfer respond normally to interferon in developing resistance to viral infection and in inducing double-stranded RNA-dependent enzymes. Further evidence for a role of tk in the response to interferon was obtained by isolating revertants of tk+ clones that lost the herpes virus tk gene during growth in BrdUrd-containing medium. In such revertant sublines both tk enzyme activity and viral tk genes were undetectable and treatment with interferon failed to produce an antiviral effect or induce synthesis of the double-stranded RNA-dependent enzymes. Our results indicate that the ability of mouse L cells to respond to beta-interferon is dependent upon the presence of a functional tk gene. We propose that the induction of antiviral responses by interferon stringently requires a metabolite, the level of which is determined by tk activity. The system described may provide a means for elucidating the mechanisms by which responses to interferon are induced.
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PMID:Induction of an antiviral response by interferon requires thymidine kinase. 618 57

The nucleotide sequence of a 2384 bp portion within the unique short (Us) region of the herpesvirus simiae (simian herpes B virus; SHBV) genome is presented. A partial and a complete open reading frame (ORF) were found within this nucleotide sequence. The partial ORF encodes the C terminus (147 amino acids) of a protein kinase which is highly conserved in the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and type 2 (HSV-2) and simian agent 8 (SA8) Us regions. The complete ORF is located 3' to the partial ORF within the 2384 bp sequence and encodes a 593 amino acid glycoprotein which appears to be closely related to the SA8 glycoprotein G (gG), but shares little amino acid similarity with gG of HSV-1 and -2. However, the complete ORF shares certain features conserved among most alphaherpesvirus gGs, notably three highly conserved cysteine residues and an adjacent N-glycosylation site. Therefore, it was concluded that this complete ORF encodes the SHBV gG. The 358 amino acid C-terminal portion of SHBV gG was expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein and this was detected by immunoblotting with sera from cynomolgus monkeys which were either experimentally or naturally infected with SHBV. The purified fusion protein was inoculated into rabbits to raise an antiserum which recognized a number of apparently SHBV gG-specific protein bands in extracts from SHBV-infected simian cells.
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PMID:Complete nucleotide sequence of the herpesvirus simiae glycoprotein G gene and its expression as an immunogenic fusion protein in bacteria. 756 53

A rational approach to the design of antiherpetic nucleoside analogues is based in part on the broad specificity of virus-coded thymidine kinases. Herpes virus thymidine kinase 'activates' many 5-substituted 2'-deoxyuridines, analogues of thymidine (e.g., idoxuridine, trifluridine, edoxudine, brivudine), 5-substituted arabinofuranosyluracil derivatives (e.g., 5-Et-Ara-U, BV-Ara-U, Cl-Ara-U), acyclonucleosides of guanine (e.g., aciclovir, ganciclovir, penciclovir), and purine nucleosides with the pentafuranosyl ring replaced by a cyclobutane ring (e.g., cyclobut-G, cyclobut-A). Activation involves selective, and frequently regiospecific, phosphorylation of these analogues to the 5'-monophosphates. These are further phosphorylated by cellular enzymes to the 5'-triphosphates, which are usually competitive inhibitors of the viral-coded DNA polymerases. Some analogues are also incorporated into viral, and to a lesser extent cellular, DNA. A recent, unusual, exception is human cytomegalovirus, which does not code for a thymidine kinase, but for a protein with the sequence characteristics of protein kinase and which phosphorylates ganciclovir to its 5'-monophosphate. The interaction of the analogues with cellular catabolic enzymes such as uridine and thymidine nucleoside phosphorylases is also discussed, as is the relationship between physicochemical properties (configuration, conformation, electronic and hydrophobic parameters) and antiviral activities, with particular reference to those drugs that are licensed, or under consideration, for clinical use.
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PMID:Structure-activity relationships and conformational features of antiherpetic pyrimidine and purine nucleoside analogues. A review. 803 38

We have studied the intracellular trafficking of the envelope glycoprotein I (gpI) of the varicella-zoster virus, a human herpes virus whose assembly is believed to occur in the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and/or in endocytic compartments. When expressed in HeLa cells in the absence of additional virally encoded factors, this type-I membrane protein localizes to the TGN and cycles between this compartment and the cell surface. The expression of gpI promotes the recruitment of the AP-1 Golgi-specific assembly proteins onto TGN membranes, strongly suggesting that gpI, like the mannose 6-phosphate receptors, can leave the TGN in clathrin-coated vesicles for subsequent transport to endosomes. Its return from the cell surface to the TGN also occurs through endosomes. The transfer of the gpI cytoplasmic domain onto a reporter molecule shows that this domain is sufficient to confer TGN localization. Mutational analysis of this domain indicates that proper subcellular localization and cycling of gpI depend on two different determinants, a tyrosine-containing tetrapeptide related to endocytosis sorting signals and a cluster of acidic amino acids containing casein kinase II phosphorylatable residues. Thus, the VZV gpI and the mannose 6-phosphate receptors, albeit localized in different intracellular compartments at steady-state, follow similar trafficking pathways and share similar sorting mechanisms.
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PMID:A tyrosine-based motif and a casein kinase II phosphorylation site regulate the intracellular trafficking of the varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein I, a protein localized in the trans-Golgi network. 894 32

Numerous targets are known for development of antiviral agents, and some significant successes have been achieved with nucleoside analogues. These are "activated" by phosphorylation by viral and/or host-cell nucleoside kinases, the final target being principally the viral polymerase. With latency of herpes viruses, the viral thymidine kinase may be the ultimate target. Less attention has been devoted to viral protein kinases as antiviral targets, largely because 5 years ago, these the study of such enzymes was considered "still in its infancy." In the interim, identification of viral and host-cell protein kinases involved in viral gene expression, and viral replication, has made impressive advances. In conjunction with current progress in development of specific inhibitors of cellular protein kinases, and the differences in sequence motifs between these and the viral enzymes, the latter are indeed attractive targets, as are also some host-cell protein kinases. Examples include, amongst others, the essential protein kinases of vaccinia virus; the nonsegmented negative-strand RNA viruses, all essentially dependent on host-cell kinases, e.g., protein kinase CK-II (casein kinase-II), for which good inhibitors, such as halogenated benzimidazoles and benzotriazoles, are known; herpes viruses, with emphasis on human cytomegalovirus, the UL97 gene of which codes for a protein kinase that, like viral thymidine kinases, "activates," by phosphorylation, a nonpeptide antiviral acyclonucleoside ganciclovir, an analogue of the antiherpes aciclovir. The latter, in turn, is active against animal cytomegaloviruses following phosphorylation by the products of their UL97 gene homologues. Attention is also directed to the antiviral activity of the cyclic phosphate of ganciclovir, a structural analogue of the second messenger cyclic GMP.
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PMID:Viral and host-cell protein kinases: enticing antiviral targets and relevance of nucleoside, and viral thymidine, kinases. 1045 9

We have identified the product of the US3 gene of bovine herpes virus type 1 (BHV-1), which is homologous to the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) US3 protein kinase (PK) gene. The antibodies against the BHV-1 US3 gene product reacted with a 58 kDa polypeptide in BHV-1 infected cells and the 58 kDa polypeptide purified by immuno-precipitation demonstrated PK activity. Recent reports indicating that the US3 gene of HSV-1 is involved in the blockage of apoptosis in virus infected cells. As to the apoptosis in BHV-1 infected cells, we found following: (1) no apoptosis was observed in cells infected with wild type BHV-1 and the US3 mutants (2) the apoptosis induced by the osmotic shock of sorbitol treatment was blocked when cells were infected by the wild type BHV-1 (3) the US3 mutants of BHV-1 blocked the apoptosis of sorbitol treated cell, but the suppressive effect was delayed relative to that of wild type BHV-1 (4) the other BHV-1 mutants, with the intact US3 gene but with some other non-essential gene (genes) deleted behaved similar way to the US3 mutant. It is concluded that the US3 gene of BHV-1 is not directly involved in the blockage of apoptosis in infected cells.
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PMID:Identification of the US3 gene product of BHV-1 as a protein kinase and characterization of BHV-1 mutants of the US3 gene. 1085 63


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