N-terminal region of P protein of Chandipura virus is responsible for phosphorylation-mediated homodimerization
N-terminal region of P protein of Chandipura virus is responsible for phosphorylation-mediated homodimerization
复制标题
DOI:
10.1093/protein/13.6.437
复制
发表时间:
2000-06-01
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Chattopadhyay, DJ
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Raha, T;Samal, E;Chattopadhyay, DJ
The phosphoprotein P of Chandipura (CHP) virus, an Indian isolate of rhabdovirus, was found to support transcription upon phosphorylation by casein kinase II (CKII). A phosphorylation-induced change in the protein conformation was found to occur at the N-terminal region of the protein. Biochemical studies for further characterization of this phosphorylation-based conformational alteration demonstrated that phosphorylation leads to the transition from an 'open' to 'closed' structure of the protein. The phosphate group introduced by CKII was found to be resistant to phosphatases, This phosphorylation-based structural alteration changes the accessible hydrophobic surface area of the protein and also the available digestion sites of different proteases, The phosphorylated form of P protein was found to be a dimer by His-tag dilution assay. Using the same approach it was found that the N-terminal 46 amino acids are responsible for P-P dimerization, only after phosphorylation.