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    Citation: Yi-pin Lv, Qian Wang, Chun-chen Wu, Rong-juan Pei, Yuan Zhou, Yun Wang, Xin-wen Chen. Putative Phosphorylation Sites On WCA Domain of HA2 Is Essential For Helicoverpa armigera Single Nucleopolyhedrovirus Replication * .VIROLOGICA SINICA, 2011, 26(4) : 245-251.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12250-011-3189-6
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    Putative Phosphorylation Sites On WCA Domain of HA2 Is Essential For Helicoverpa armigera Single Nucleopolyhedrovirus Replication *

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      Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Enviromental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

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      Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

    • Corresponding author: Yun Wang, wangyun@wh.iov.cn
    • Present address: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
    • Received Date: 09 February 2011
      Accepted Date: 25 February 2011
      Available online: 01 August 2011

      Fund Project: National Nature Science Foundations of China 30800044National Nature Science Foundations of China 31030027National Nature Science Foundations of China 30770085

    • Protein phosphorylation is one of the most common post-translational modification processes that play an essential role in regulating protein functionality. The Helicoverpa armigera single nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearNPV) orf2-encoded nucleocapsid protein HA2 participates in orchestration of virus-induced actin polymerization through its WCA domain, in which phosphorylation status are supposed to be critical in respect to actin polymerization. In the present study, two putative phosphorylation sites (232Thr and 250Ser) and a highly conserved Serine (245Ser) on the WCA domain of HA2 were mutated, and their phenotypes were characterized by reintroducing the mutated HA2 into the HearNPV genome. Viral infectivity assays demonstrated that only the recombinant HearNPV bearing HA2 mutation at 245Ser can produce infectious virions, both 232Thr and 250Ser mutations were lethal to the virus. However, actin polymerization assay demonstrated that all the three viruses bearing HA2 mutations were still capable of initiating actin polymerization in the host nucleus, which indicated the putative phosphorylation sites on HA2 may contribute to HearNPV replication through another unidentified pathway.
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      Putative Phosphorylation Sites On WCA Domain of HA2 Is Essential For Helicoverpa armigera Single Nucleopolyhedrovirus Replication *

        Corresponding author: Yun Wang, wangyun@wh.iov.cn
      • 1. Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Enviromental Microbiology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China
      • 2. Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China
      • Received Date: 09 February 2011
      • Accepted Date: 25 February 2011
      Fund Project:  National Nature Science Foundations of China 30800044National Nature Science Foundations of China 31030027National Nature Science Foundations of China 30770085

      Abstract: Protein phosphorylation is one of the most common post-translational modification processes that play an essential role in regulating protein functionality. The Helicoverpa armigera single nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearNPV) orf2-encoded nucleocapsid protein HA2 participates in orchestration of virus-induced actin polymerization through its WCA domain, in which phosphorylation status are supposed to be critical in respect to actin polymerization. In the present study, two putative phosphorylation sites (232Thr and 250Ser) and a highly conserved Serine (245Ser) on the WCA domain of HA2 were mutated, and their phenotypes were characterized by reintroducing the mutated HA2 into the HearNPV genome. Viral infectivity assays demonstrated that only the recombinant HearNPV bearing HA2 mutation at 245Ser can produce infectious virions, both 232Thr and 250Ser mutations were lethal to the virus. However, actin polymerization assay demonstrated that all the three viruses bearing HA2 mutations were still capable of initiating actin polymerization in the host nucleus, which indicated the putative phosphorylation sites on HA2 may contribute to HearNPV replication through another unidentified pathway.

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