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Journal of Virology, January 2001, p. 303-310, Vol. 75, No. 1
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.1.303-310.2001

The Vaccinia Virus A33R Protein Provides a Chaperone Function for Viral Membrane Localization and Tyrosine Phosphorylation of the A36R Protein

Elizabeth J. Wolffe, Andrea S. Weisberg, and Bernard Moss*

Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0445

Received 26 July 2000/Accepted 2 October 2000

The products of the A33R and A36R genes of vaccinia virus are incorporated into the membranes of intracellular enveloped virions (IEV). When extracts of cells that had been infected with vaccinia virus and labeled with H332PO4 were immunoprecipitated with antibodies against the A33R protein, two prominent bands were resolved. The moderately and more intensely labeled bands were identified as phosphorylated A33R and A36R proteins, respectively. The immunoprecipitated complex contained disulfide-bonded dimers of A33R protein that were noncovalently linked to A36R protein. Biochemical analysis indicated that the two proteins were phosphorylated predominantly on serine residues, with lesser amounts on threonines. The A36R protein was also phosphorylated on tyrosine, as determined by specific binding to an anti-phosphotyrosine antibody. Serine phosphorylation and A33R-A36R protein complex formation occurred even when virus assembly was blocked at an early stage with the drug rifampin. Tyrosine phosphorylation was selectively reduced in cells infected with F13L or A34R gene deletion mutants that were impaired in the membrane-wrapping step of IEV formation. In addition, tyrosine phosphorylation was specifically inhibited in cells infected with an A33R deletion mutant that still formed IEV. Immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy indicated that in the absence of the A33R protein, the A36R protein was localized in Golgi membranes but not in IEV. In the absence of the A36R protein, however, the A33R protein still localized to IEV membranes. These studies together with others suggest that the A33R protein guides the A36R protein to the IEV membrane, where it subsequently becomes tyrosine phosphorylated as a signal for actin tail formation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: National Institutes of Health, 4 Center Dr., MSC 0445, Bethesda, MD 20892-0445. Phone: (301) 496-9869. Fax: (301) 480-1147. E-mail: bmoss{at}nih.gov.

Journal of Virology, January 2001, p. 303-310, Vol. 75, No. 1
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.1.303-310.2001


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