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J Virol. 1992 March; 66(3): 1312-1320

Altered phosphorylation of free and bound forms of monkey p53 and simian virus 40 large T antigen during lytic infection.

Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, Salk Institute, San Diego, California 92138.

ABSTRACT

We have identified the phosphorylation sites in monkey p53 as well as specific changes in the phosphorylation state of free and complexed forms of simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen (T) and monkey p53 isolate from SV40 lytically infected CV1 cells. Phosphopeptide analyses of free T and p53 (To and p53o) and complexed T and p53 (T+ and p53+) fractions indicated several quantitative increases in the specific phosphorylation of complexed forms of both proteins. The N terminus of monkey p53+ is phosphorylated at Ser-9, Ser-15, Ser-20, either Ser-33 or Ser-37, and at least one of Ser-90 to Ser-99. The C-terminal sites are Ser-315 and Ser-392. On comparing p53+ with p53o, we found that labeling of the two N-terminal phosphotryptic peptides encompassing residues 1 to 20 and 33 to 101 was increased fivefold and that Ser-315 was sevenfold more labeled than was Ser-392. When T+ was compared with To, the N-terminal peptide containing phosphorylation sites Ser-106 through Thr-124 was twofold more labeled, the peptide containing Ser-657 through Ser-679 was sixfold more labeled and contained up to four phosphorylated serine residues, and Ser-639 and Thr-701 appeared unchanged. Overall, T+ molecules appeared to contain 3.5 mol more of labeled phosphate than did To, with the N-terminal peptide appearing fully phosphorylated. The phosphopeptide patterns obtained for lytic T+ and To fractions were nearly identical to those found for wild-type SV40 T (stably complexed with mouse p53) and mutant 5080 T (defective for p53 binding) expressed in transformed C3H10T1/2 cells (L. Tack, C. Cartwright, J. Wright, A. Srinivasan, W. Eckhart, K. Peden, and J. Pipas, J. Virol. 63:3362-3367, 1989). These results indicate that increases in specific phosphorylation sites in both T+ and p53+ correlate with the association of T with p53. The enhanced phosphorylation state may be a consequence of complex formation between T and p53 or reflect an increased affinity of p53 for highly phosphorylated forms of T.

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