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Query: EC:2.7.7.49 (reverse transcriptase)
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A protein kinase associated with purified virions of avian myeloblastosis BAI strain A was partially purified by ion-exchange chromatography and gel filtration. The transfer of phosphate catalyzed by this enzyme required a divalent metal ion and ATP as phosphate donor. GTP could not be substituted for ATP, and the reaction was unaffected by either cyclic AMP or beef-heart protein-kinase inhibitor. Of the virus and nonvirus proteins tested as phosphate acceptors, only acidic proteins were phosphorylated. In particular, purified preparations of reverse transcriptase from avian myeloblastosis virus did not accept phosphate. The enzyme is a basic protein (pI = 9.3), and, on the basis of molecular sieving through Sephadex G-200 and velocity sedimentation on glycerol gradient, the protein kinase has a molecular weight of 45,000.
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PMID:Protein kinase from avian myeloblastosis virus. 2 25

We have studied the effect of protein phosphokinase (EC 2.7.1.37; ATP:protein phosphotransferase) and phosphoprotein phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.16; phosphoprotein phosphohydrolase) on reverse transcriptase (RNA-dependent DNA nucleotidyltransferase) activity of Rous sarcoma virus. Protein kinase from Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chick embryo fibroblasts was purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, Sephadex gel filtration, and isoelectric focusing. Purified reverse transcriptase from Rouse sarcoma virus was preincubated with protein kinase and ATP under conditions allowing incorporation of phosphate into substrate protein. After the preincubation, reverse transcriptase activity was assayed in the presence of poly(rA).oligo(dT) as template. A 2- to 5-fold increase of reverse transcriptase activity was found after the preincubation of reverse transcriptase with protein kinase and ATP. Incubation of reverse transcriptase with heat-treated, inactive protein kinase and ATP had no effect on transcriptase activity. When the transcriptase preparation was incubated with protein kinase and [gamma-32P]ATP and subsequently purified by chromatography on phosphocellulose and Sephadex gel filtration, significant amounts of 32P-labeled proteins were found in the fractions exhibiting reverse transcriptase activity, suggesting 32P incorporation into transcriptase or transcriptase-associated proteins. A 20-60% decrease of reverse transcriptase activity was observed after incubation of reverse transcriptase with phosphatase. The results suggest that phosphorylative modification of reverse transcriptase may be critical in the regulation of reverse transcriptase-catalyzed DNA synthesis.
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PMID:Protein kinase and its regulatory effect on reverse transcriptase activity of Rous sarcoma virus. 5 72

The structural polypeptides of purified viper range in molecular weight from 11,000 to 97,000 daltons and consist of 3 major and about 13 minor polypeptides. The virus contains both protein kinase and reverse transcriptase activities. Several of the structural polypeptides are phosphorylated in vitro by the virus-associated protein kinase. However, most (possibly all) of the viral structural polypeptides are not phosphorylated in vivo. DeoxyATP is as efficient as ATP in donating phosphate for in vitro phosphorylation of viral proteins. In vitro protein phosphorylation always precedes transcription and the virus-associated protein kinase and reverse transcriptase activities can be partially separated by sedimentation in a sucrose gradient.
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PMID:Structural and enzymatic characterization of viper C-type virus. 5 28

Activity of RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (RDDP) from avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV), either in purified form or in virus lysates, was increased by phosphorylation. Stability of RDDP in lysates buffered with phosphate was much greater (no loss of activity in 48 hours at 4 degrees) than that in lysates buffered with Tris-Cl (76% loss). Activity lost in the Tris-buffered extracts was completely restored by phosphorylation. The findings suggested that AMV RDDP activity is influenced by the degree of phosphorylation of the enzyme or enzyme-associated proteins and that this chemical modification is mediated by protein phosphokinase and phosphoprotein phosphatase present in crude extracts of purified AMV. Application of these results provided the basis of procedures whereby RDDP can be recovered in significantly higher yield and purity than formerly.
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PMID:Influence of phosphate on activity and stability of reverse transcriptase from avian myeloblastosis virus. 6 81

A protein kinase associated with purified virions of avian myeloblastosis virus, BAI strain A, was highly purified by ion-exchange chromatography and gel filtration. On the basis of molecular sieving on Sephadex G-200, the enzyme protein appeared to have a molecular weight of about 50,000 to 60,000; disc gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate-acrylamide gels revealed the presence of at least two polypeptide chains; and isoelectric focusing on acrylamide gels revealed two protein bands with activity. Of the nonviral proteins used as phosphate acceptors, the greatest rate of phosphorylation was obtained with alpha-casein. Potential physiological substrates for this activity included specific virion polypeptide of avian myeloblastosis virus. One of the virion polypeptides found in association with reverse transcriptase activity from avian myeloblastosis virus accepted more phosphate than any of nonviral or viral polypeptides examined on the basis of nanomoles of 32P incorporated per milligram of protein.
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PMID:Protein kinase and phosphoproteins of avian myeloblastosis virus. 6 29

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) contains a particle-associated DNA polymerase/reverse transcriptase activity encoded by the P (pol) open reading frame. Due to its low abundance, the corresponding protein has so far escaped direct detection and structural analysis. As a first step to overcome these difficulties, a series of recombinant vaccinia viruses was constructed and used for the synthesis in human hepatoma cells of both the authentic full length protein and of its functional domains. Pulse chase experiments demonstrated that the P-proteins had very short half lives in striking contrast to the viral core protein expressed in parallel with the same system. No evidence was obtained for a specific proteolytic processing of the P-protein as occurring with retroviral pol gene products. Overexpression of P-protein by recombinant vaccinia viruses was then employed to develop a highly sensitive detection method based on the in vitro phosphorylation of newly introduced target sites for protein kinase A. The usefulness of this method was demonstrated in the analysis of encapsidated P-gene products that were transiently expressed from an appropriately modified HBV genome. The results obtained indicate that the P-protein acts unprocessed, at least during the initial steps of nucleocapsid assembly and reverse transcription, and that a fraction of the P-protein molecules is linked as such to the viral DNA. Direct detection of the hepadnaviral P-protein by in vitro phosphorylation should greatly facilitate future analyses on P-protein structure and function.
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PMID:Expression of the P-protein of the human hepatitis B virus in a vaccinia virus system and detection of the nucleocapsid-associated P-gene product by radiolabelling at newly introduced phosphorylation sites. 137 44

HIV infection is associated with qualitative and functional immune deficiencies. It has been shown that the in vitro infection of CD4+ cells with HIV was associated with sustained elevation of cAMP and cGMP. In the present report the role of cAMP on HIV replication in MT-4 cells was investigated. The MT-4 cells were infected with HIV (strain 3b), in the presence or absence of agents that increase intracellular levels of cAMP, through different mechanisms. At selected times postinfection, HIV replication was measured by reverse transcriptase activity or HIV P24Ag in culture supernatants. Forskolin (FK, an activator of adenylate cyclase 1-100 microM), Isobutyl-methylxanthine (IBMX, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, which indirectly increases intracellular levels of cAMP, 30-100 microM) and dibutyryl (db) cAMP (0.1-10 microM) enhanced HIV replication, in a dose-dependent manner. FK, IBMX, and db cAMP enhanced HIV replication by 2- to 10-fold, 4- to 7-fold, and 2- to 6-fold, respectively. Intracellular levels of cAMP were measured by radioimmunoassay and were also enhanced. Since cAMP exerts its catalytic effects through activation of protein kinase (PK) A the effect of H-8 (a specific inhibitor of the cAMP dependent PK A) on HIV replication was simultaneously examined. The H8 at doses of 0.1 to 10 microns inhibited HIV replication by 25 to 99.9%. Moreover H9 inhibited HIV replication in peripheral blood mononuclear cells by more than 90%. The replication of HIV appears to be a cAMP-dependent event, and PK A could possibly be a target for the development of anti-HIV therapies.
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PMID:Human immunodeficiency virus replication: modulation by cellular levels of cAMP. 138

NF kappa B is a potent mediator of specific gene expression in human monocytes and has been shown to play a role in transcription of the HIV-1 genome in promonocytic leukemias. There is little information available on the response of NF kappa B to cytokines in normal human monocytes. We have used a 32P-labeled oligonucleotide derived from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) long terminal repeat, which contains a tandem repeat of the NF kappa B binding sequence, as a probe in a gel retardation assay to study this transcription factor. Using this assay, we have detected NF kappa B in extracts of nuclei from normal human monocytes. Treatment of normal monocytes with 12-0-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) for 4-24 h caused the complete disappearance of NF kappa B from nuclear extracts of monocytes. A similar result was obtained with the mature monocytic leukemia cell line THP-1. The constitutive transcription factor SP1 was unaffected by addition of TPA. The disappearance of NF kappa B from the nucleus was concentration dependent between 10 and 50 ng/ml of phorbol ester. In THP-1 cells, TPA also induced a new, faster-migrating NF kappa B species not induced in monocytes. Protein kinase C inhibitor staurosporine, but not cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinase inhibitor HA-1004, also dramatically reduced constitutive levels of nuclear NF kappa B. Finally, TPA addition to monocytes infected with HIV-1 inhibited HIV-1 replication, as determined by reverse transcriptase assays, in a concentration-dependent manner. These results are in striking contrast to the increase in nuclear NF kappa B and HIV-1 replication induced by phorbol esters in promonocytic leukemia cells U937 and HL-60, and emphasize the importance of studying cytokine regulation of HIV-1 in normal monocytes.
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PMID:Phorbol ester reduces constitutive nuclear NF kappa B and inhibits HIV-1 production in mature human monocytic cells. 146 36

Monoclonal antibodies were developed that are specific for Rous sarcoma virus structural, polymerase (reverse transcriptase) and transforming proteins. The monoclonal antibodies were shown to bind to purified virus proteins in an indirect 125I-labelled Protein A binding assay suitable for screening even very large numbers of hybridomas. Additional tests for specificity included radioimmunoprecipitation of purified virus structural proteins P12 and P27, of reverse transcriptase subunits alpha and beta, and of the transforming protein pp60v-src. Pilot immunofluorescence and protein kinase assays of the expression of virus proteins in avian and mammalian cells infected by wild-type virus as well as by temperature-sensitive, transformation-defective virus mutants revealed that synthesis of virus structural and transforming proteins is hardly affected by changes in temperature, whereas the pp60v-src-associated kinase activity is temperature-sensitive in cells infected by most, but not all the virus mutants.
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PMID:Isolation of monoclonal antibodies specific for Rous sarcoma virus structural, polymerase and transforming proteins and their use for the study of mutant virus-infected cells. 258 50

We have investigated the influence of 2',5' adenosine nucleotides on the replication and transformation of cells by Rous sarcoma virus (RSV). Treatment with the nucleotides ppp2',5'A4 and 2',5'A4 causes a striking reduction (50-fold) in the yield of infectious progeny virus, while ppp2',5A2 and 2',5'A3 had virtually no effect. The reduction in infectivity seen with 2',5'A4 nucleotides is paralleled by a smaller but significant (three- to four-fold) reduction in the amount of particles released as measured by reverse transcriptase activity and levels of viral structural proteins. The reduced infectivity of released particles is not due to viral RNA being missing since the amount of genomic RNA in particles from 2',5'A4-treated cultures was likewise only reduced by a factor of 2-3. Pulse-chase radioactive label experiments showed that processing of both viral group-specific antigens (gag) and viral envelope glycoprotein (env) gene products was completely normal in nucleotide-treated cultures, but that the rate of appearance of viral proteins in mature virus in the culture supernatants was reduced by a factor of about 3-4. Taken together, the data show that assembly of viral structural proteins into virions which can be released into the medium is slowed, and that assembly of virus particles with reduced infectivity follows upon nucleotide treatment. This inhibition of infectious virus production takes place without significant toxic effects on the cell; host protein synthesis is only 20% inhibited. There is also no significant effect on the secretory ability of the cells as measured by total protein release into the medium or release of fibronectin. The transformed cell phenotype was also subtly affected by 2',5'A4, but not by other oligomers. Plasminogen activator protease activity was sharply reduced upon treatment, while other typical features of RSV-transformed cells such as elevated hexose transport, and pp60src-associated protein phosphokinase activity, were little affected.
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PMID:Inhibition of Rous sarcoma virus assembly by treatment with 2',5' adenosine nucleotides. 619 38


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