Cannon J S, Hamzeh F, Moore S, Nicholas J, Ambinder R F
Departments of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
J Virol. 1999 Jun;73(6):4786-93. doi: 10.1128/JVI.73.6.4786-4793.1999.
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) sensitivity to the nucleoside analog ganciclovir (GCV) suggests the presence of a virally encoded kinase that catalyzes the initial phosphorylation of GCV. Analysis of the HHV-8 genome identified two candidate kinases: proteins encoded by open reading frame (ORF) 21, with homology to the herpesvirus thymidine kinases (TK), and ORF 36, with homology to the herpesvirus phosphotransferases (PT). Experiments presented here show that both ORF 21 and ORF 36 encode GCV kinase activities as demonstrated by GCV phosphorylation and GCV-mediated cell death. In both regards the PT homologue ORF 36 was more active than the TK homologue ORF 21. ORF 21, but not ORF 36, weakly sensitized cells to killing by penciclovir. Neither ORF sensitized cells to killing by (E)-5-(2-bromovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine.
人类疱疹病毒8型(HHV - 8)对核苷类似物更昔洛韦(GCV)敏感,这表明存在一种病毒编码的激酶,可催化GCV的初始磷酸化。对HHV - 8基因组的分析确定了两种候选激酶:由开放阅读框(ORF)21编码的蛋白,与疱疹病毒胸苷激酶(TK)具有同源性;以及ORF 36编码的蛋白,与疱疹病毒磷酸转移酶(PT)具有同源性。此处展示的实验表明,ORF 21和ORF 36均编码GCV激酶活性,这通过GCV磷酸化和GCV介导的细胞死亡得以证明。在这两方面,PT同源物ORF 36比TK同源物ORF 21更具活性。ORF 21而非ORF 36,使细胞对喷昔洛韦杀伤的敏感性略有增加。两种ORF均未使细胞对(E)-5 -(2 - 溴乙烯基)-2'-脱氧尿苷的杀伤敏感。