期刊
VIRUS RESEARCH
卷 145, 期 2, 页码 312-320出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2009.07.024
关键词
Nuclear localization signal; Nucleolar localization signal; Bovine herpesvirus-1; BICP27; Transactivation
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资金
- Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Science [20071010-141]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30870120]
- Open Research Fund Program of the State Key Laboratory of Virology of China [2007003, 2009007]
Bovine herpesvirus-1 infected cell protein 27 (BICP27) was detected predominantly in the nucleolus. The open reading frame of BICP27 was fused with the enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (EYFP) gene to investigate its subcellular localization in live cells and BICP27 was able to direct monomeric, dimeric or trimeric EYFP exclusively to the nucleolus. By constructing a series of deletion mutants, the putative nuclear localization signal (NLS) and nucleolar localization signal (NoLS) were mapped to (81)RRAR(84) and (RPRRPRRRPRRR97)-R-86 respectively. Specific deletion of the putative NLS, NoLS or both abrogated nuclear localization, nucleolar localization or both respectively. Furthermore, NLS was able to direct trimeric EYFP predominantly to the nucleus but excluded from the nucleolus, whereas NoLS targeted trimeric EYFP primarily to the nucleus, and enriched in the nucleolus with faint staining in the cytoplasm. NLS + NoLS directed trimeric EYFP predominantly to the nucleolus with faint staining in the nucleus. Moreover, deletion of NLS + NoLS abolished the transactivating activity of BICP27 on gC promoter, whereas deletion of either NLS or NoLS did not. The study demonstrated that BICP27 is a nucleolar protein, adding BICP27 to the growing list of transactivators which localize to the nucleolus. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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