Phosphorylation of hepatitis B virus precore and core proteins.
AUTOR(ES)
Yeh, C T
RESUMO
Hepatitis B virus precore and core proteins are related. The precore protein contains the entire sequence of the core protein plus an amino-terminal extension of 29 amino acids. The amino-terminal extension of the precore protein contains a signal sequence for the secretion of the precore protein. This signal sequence is removed after the translocation of the precore protein across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane to produce the precore protein derivative named P22. We demonstrate that both P22 and the core protein can be phosphorylated in cells. Microsomal fractionation and trypsin digestion experiments demonstrate that a fraction of phosphorylated P22 is located in the endoplasmic reticulum lumen. Phosphorylation of P22 likely occurs in the carboxy terminus, since the P22 derivative P16, which lacks the carboxy terminus of P22, is not phosphorylated. Linking the carboxy terminus of the precore-core protein to heterologous secretory and cytosolic proteins led to the phosphorylation of the resulting chimeric proteins. These results indicate that phosphorylation of P22 and the core protein is likely mediated by cellular kinases.
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