The A+T-rich genome of Herpesvirus saimiri contains a highly conserved gene for thymidylate synthase.

Abstract:

:Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is the prototype member of a distinctive subset of lymphotropic herpesviruses (the gamma 2 subgroup) with A+T-rich coding sequences. In this paper, we show that cells productively infected with HVS contain high concentrations of a virus-specified thymidylate synthase (5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate:dUMP C-methyltransferase, EC 2.1.1.45); we identify the active polypeptide and present the sequence of the virus gene. The predicted amino acid sequence of the 294-residue subunit of the virus enzyme is 70% homologous with the sequence of the human enzyme and about 50% homologous with prokaryotic thymidylate synthases, illustrating the remarkable structural constraints imposed by the thymidylate synthase function. However, the presence of the enzyme is not a conserved property of herpesviruses. We find no evidence for a virus-encoded thymidylate synthase activity (or a homology to a thymidylate synthase sequence) in G+C-rich representatives of alpha 1 (e.g., herpes simplex viruses, 66-68% G+C), beta (i.e., human cytomegalovirus, 58-59% G+C), and gamma 1 (i.e., Epstein-Barr virus, 60% G+C) herpesvirus subgroups. The production of excess thymidylate by a virus thymidylate synthase in cells infected with an A+T-rich herpesvirus would provide one plausible source of biased mutations by the virus-encoded replicative enzymes, which we have previously suggested as the likely general cause of differences in the mean nucleotide compositions of herpesvirus genomes.

authors

Honess RW,Bodemer W,Cameron KR,Niller HH,Fleckenstein B,Randall RE

doi

10.1073/pnas.83.11.3604

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-06-01 00:00:00

pages

3604-8

issue

11

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

83

pub_type

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