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Agnoprotein-1a of avian polyomavirus budgerigar fledgling disease virus: identification of phosphorylation sites and functional importance in the virus life-cycle

Institut für Mikrobiologie und Molekularbiologie der Universität Giessen, Frankfurter Str. 107, 35392 Giessen, Germany¹

Author for correspondence: Gerd Hobom. Fax +49 641 9935549.e-mail Gerd.Hobom{at}mikro.bio.uni-giessen.de

The avian polyomavirus budgerigar fledgling disease virus (BFDV) encodes an unusual set of four agnoproteins in its late upstream region. Of the two pairs of these proteins, which overlap each other in two different reading frames, the p_L1-promoted agnoprotein-1a (agno-1a) is the dominant species and is able to support virus propagation in the absence of the other three polypeptides. Viral BFDV agno-1a, and also agno-1a expressed via an influenza virus vector, consists of a complex series of electrophoretically separable subspecies that can be reduced by phosphatase action down to a primary unphosphorylated protein with an apparent molecular mass of 31 kDa. Through peptide mass spectrometry and site-directed mutagenesis, the positions of four serine and three threonine residues have been determined as phosphate-accepting groups, which are partially modified by the combined action of three different cellular kinases. Since extensively phosphorylated agno-1a is required for its intracellular function, control over VP protein expression, and unphosphorylated agno-1a is observed as an additional component in the BFDV virion, both extreme subspecies appear to be drawn from that complex mixture, which also includes the intermediate stages of phosphorylation.

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