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J Virol, July 1998, p. 6199-6206, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
The NS5A/NS5 Proteins of Viruses from Three Genera
of the Family Flaviviridae Are Phosphorylated by Associated
Serine/Threonine Kinases
Karen E.
Reed,1
Alexander E.
Gorbalenya,2,3,
and
Charles M.
Rice1,*
Department of Molecular Microbiology,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
63110-10931;
M. P. Chumakov
Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Russian Academy of
Medical Sciences, 142782 Moscow Region,
Russia2; and
Department of Virology,
Institute of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University, 2300 AH
Leiden, The Netherlands3
Received 8 January 1998/Accepted 25 March 1998
Phosphorylation of the expressed NS5A protein of hepatitis C virus
(HCV), a member of the Hepacivirus genus of the family Flaviviridae, has been demonstrated in mammalian cells and
in a cell-free assay by an associated kinase activity. In this report, phosphorylation is also shown for the NS5A and NS5 proteins,
respectively, of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) and yellow fever
virus (YF), members of the other two established genera in this family.
Phosphorylation of BVDV NS5A and YF NS5 was observed in infected cells,
transient expression experiments, and a cell-free assay similar to the
one developed for HCV NS5A. Phosphoamino acid analyses indicated that all three proteins were phosphorylated by serine/threonine kinases. Similarities in the properties of BVDV NS5A, YF NS5, and HCV NS5A phosphorylation in vitro further suggested that closely related kinases
or the same kinase may phosphorylate these viral proteins. Conservation
of this trait among three quite distantly related viruses representing
three separate genera suggests that phosphorylation of the NS5A/NS5
proteins or their association with cellular kinases may play an
important role in the flavivirus life cycle.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110-1093. Phone: (314) 362-2842. Fax: (314) 362-1232. E-mail: rice{at}borcim.wustl.edu.

Present address: Biomedical Supercomputer Center, SAIC/NCI-FCRDC,
Frederick, MD 21702-1201.
J Virol, July 1998, p. 6199-6206, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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