Al Mehairi Salama, Cerasoli Eleanora, Sinclair Alison J
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom.
J Virol. 2005 Jun;79(12):7905-10. doi: 10.1128/JVI.79.12.7905-7910.2005.
The K8 gene of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) shares many functional similarities with the BZLF1 gene of Epstein-Barr virus. The protein products of K8 and BZLF1, K-bZIP (RAP, K8) and Zta (BZLF1, ZEBRA, Z) have both been proposed to be members of the bZIP family of transcription factors, forming multimers via a coiled-coil motif termed a leucine zipper. Substantial evidence supporting this model for Zta is published. Here, we demonstrate that the proposed leucine zipper region of K-bZIP (amino acids 182 to 218) is required for multimer formation but that it does not fold as a coiled coil.
卡波西肉瘤相关疱疹病毒(人类疱疹病毒8型)的K8基因与爱泼斯坦-巴尔病毒的BZLF1基因具有许多功能相似性。K8和BZLF1的蛋白产物,即K-bZIP(RAP、K8)和Zta(BZLF1、ZEBRA、Z),均被认为是bZIP转录因子家族的成员,它们通过一种称为亮氨酸拉链的卷曲螺旋基序形成多聚体。已有大量支持Zta这一模型的证据发表。在此,我们证明K-bZIP的假定亮氨酸拉链区域(氨基酸182至218)是多聚体形成所必需的,但它并不折叠成卷曲螺旋。