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Animal: DNA Viruses |
School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK1
Author for correspondence: Joe Conner.Fax +44 141 331 3208. e-mail J.Conner{at}gcal.ac.uk
Herpesvirus ribonucleotide reductases, essential for the de novo synthesis of viral DNA, are composed of two non-identical subunits, termed R1 and R2. The U28 ORF from human herpesvirus-7 has been classified, by sequence comparisons, as a homologue of the R1 subunit from ribonucleotide reductase but no R2 ORF is present. Detailed analysis of the U28 amino acid sequence indicated that a number of essential R1 catalytic residues are absent. Cloning and expression of the U28 protein in E. coli and its subsequent characterization in subunit interaction and enzyme activity assays confirmed that it is not a functional equivalent of a herpesvirus R1. In the absence of the R2 gene, we propose that the R1 ORF has evolved a distinct, as yet unidentified, function not only in human herpesvirus-7 but also in other human betaherpesviruses.
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