Identification of the thymidylate synthase within the genome of white spot syndrome virus

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2035-2044

  Li, Qin ^b   Pan, Deng ^a   Zhang, Jing Hai ^b   Yang, Feng ^a  

^a State Oceanic Administration   (China)

^b SHENYANG PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PENAEIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROSCOPY; VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE SPOT SYNDROME VIRUS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CRAYFISH; DNA VIRUS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DNA VIRUSES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; SHRIMP WHITE SPOT SYNDROME VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA VIRUSES; EVOLUTION; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 3342936848     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80048-0     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Adams, M. D., Celniker, S. E., Holt, R. A. & 191 other authors (2000). The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster. Science 287, 2185-2195.
2. Afonso, C. L., Tulman, E. R., Lu, Z., Oma, E., Kutish, G. F. & Rock, D. L. (1999). The genome of Melanoplus sanguinipes entomopoxvirus. J Virol 73, 533-552.
3. Belfort, M., Maley, G. F., Pedersen-Lane, J. & Maley, F. (1983a). Primary structure of the Escherichia coli thyA gene and its thymidylate synthase product. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 80, 4914-4918.
4. Belfort, M., Moelleken, A., Maley, G. F. & Maley, F. (1983b). Purification and properties of T4 phage thymidylate synthase produced by the cloned gene in an amplification vector. J Biol Chem 258, 2045-2051.
5. Beverley, S. M., Ellenberger, T. E. & Cordingley, J. S. (1986). Primary structure of the gene encoding the bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase of Leishmania major. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 83, 2584-2588.
6. Bodemer, W., Niller, H. H., Nitsche, N., Scholz, B. & Fleckenstein, B. (1986). Organization of the thymidylate synthase gene of herpesvirus saimiri. J Virol 60, 114-123.
7. Carreras, C. W. & Santi, D. V. (1995). The catalytic mechanism and structure of thymidylate synthase. Annu Rev Biochem 64, 721-762.
8. Chen, H. H., Tso, D. J., Yeh, W. B., Cheng, H. J. & Wu, T. F. (2001). The thymidylate synthase gene of Hz-1 virus: a gene captured from its lepidopteran host. Insect Mol Biol 10, 495-503.
9. Chen, L. L., Wang, H. C., Huang, C. J. & 9 other authors (2002). Transcriptional analysis of the DNA polymerase gene of shrimp white spot syndrome virus. Virology 301, 136-147.
10. Cheng, Q. & Saul, A. (1994). The dihydrofolate reductase domain of rodent malarias: point mutations and pyrimethamine resistance. Mol Biochem Parasitol 65, 361-363.
11. Chiericatti, G. & Santi, D. V. (1998). Aspartate 221 of thymidylate synthase is involved in folate cofactor binding and in catalysis. Biochemistry 37, 9038-9042.
12. Cox, K. M., Robertson, D. & Fites, R. C. (1999). Mapping and expression of a bifunctional thymidylate synthase, dihydrofolate reductase gene from maize. Plant Mol Biol 41, 733-739.
13. Danenberg, P. V. (1977). Thymidylate synthetase - a target enzyme in cancer chemotherapy. Biochim Biophys Acta 473, 73-92.
14. Davison, A. J. & Scott, J. E. (1986). The complete DNA sequence of varicella-zoster virus. J Gen Virol 67, 1759-1816.
15. Eastwood, D. C., Bains, N. K., Henderson, J. & Burton, K. S. (2000). Genomic sequencing of superoxide dismutase in Agaricus bisporus. Submitted to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
16. Edgell, D. R. & Shub, D. A. (2001). Related homing endonucleases I-BmoI and I-TevI use different strategies to cleave homologous recognition sites. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98, 7898-7903.
17. Eldin de Pecoulas, P., Basco, L. K., Tahar, R., Ouatas, T. & Mazabraud, A. (1998). Analysis of the Plasmodium vivax dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene sequence. Gene 211, 177-185.
18. Gamarro, F., Yu, P. L., Zhao, J., Edman, U., Greene, P. J. & Santi, D. (1995). Trypanosoma brucei dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene isolation and expression and characterization of the enzyme. Mol Biochem Parasitol 72, 11-22.
19. 177 in Escherichia coli thymidylate synthase is a major determinant of pyrimidine specificity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89, 9725-9729.
20. Honess, R. W., Bodemer, W., Cameron, K. R., Niller, H. H., Fleckenstein, B. & Randall, R. E. (1986). The A-rich genome of herpesvirus saimiri contains a highly conserved gene for thymidylate synthase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 83, 3604-3608.
21. Huang, C., Zhang, X., Lin, Q., Xu, X., Hu, Z. & Hew, C. L. (2002). Proteomic analysis of shrimp white spot syndrome viral proteins and characterization of a novel envelope protein VP466. Mol Cell Proteomics 1, 223-231.
22. Hughes, D. E., Shonekan, O. A. & Simpson, L. (1989). Structure, genomic organization and transcription of the bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene from Crithidia fasciculata. Mol Biochem Parasitol 34, 155-166.
23. Ivanova, N., Anderson, I., Bhattacharyya, A. & 16 other authors (2002). The genome sequence of the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99, 443-448.
24. Ivanova, N., Sorokin, A., Anderson, I. & 20 other authors (2003). Genome sequence of Bacillus cereus and comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis. Nature 423, 87-91.
25. Kaneda, S., Nalbantoglu, J., Takeishi, K., Shimizu, K., Gotoh, O., Seno, T. & Ayusawa, D. (1990). Structural and functional analysis of the human thymidylate synthase gene. J Biol Chem 265, 20277-20284.
26. Kenny, E., Atkinson, T. & Hartley, B. S. (1985). Nucleotide sequence of the thymidylate synthetase gene (thyP3) from the Bacillus subtilis phage phi 3T. Gene 34, 335-342.
27. Kozak, M. (1989). The scanning model for translation: an update. J Cell Biol 108, 229-234.
28. Lockshin, A., Mondal, K. & Danenberg, P. V. (1984). Spectroscopic studies of ternary complexes of thymidylate synthase, deoxyribonucleotides, and folate analogs. J Biol Chem 259, 11346-11352.
29. Luo, M., Piffanelli, P., Rastelli, L. & Cella, R. (1993). Molecular cloning and analysis of a cDNA coding for the bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase of Daucus carota. Plant Mol Biol 22, 427-435.
30. McLauchlan, J., Gaffney, D., Whitton, J. L. & Clements, J. B. (1985). The consensus sequence YGTGTTYY located downstream from the AATAAA signal is required for efficient formation of mRNA 3′ termini. Nucleic Acids Res 13, 1347-1368.
31. Muller, K., Tidona, C. A., Bahr, U. & Darai, G. (1998). Identification of a thymidylate synthase gene within the genome of Chilo iridescent virus. Virus Genes 17, 243-258.
32. Nelson, K., Alonso, G., Langer, P. J. & Beverley, S. M. (1990). Sequence of the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase (DHFR-TS) gene of Leishmania amazonensis. Nucleic Acids Res 18, 2819.
33. Nierman, W. C., Feldblyum, T. V., Laub, M. T. & 34 other authors (2001). Complete genome sequence of Caulobacter crescentus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98, 4136-4141.
34. Nishio, Y., Nakamura, Y., Kawarabayasi, Y. & 8 other authors (2003). Comparative complete genome sequence analysis of the amino acid replacements responsible for the thermostability of Corynebacterium efficiens. Genome Res 13, 1572-1579.
35. Noelling, J., Breton, G., Omelchenko, M. V. & 16 other authors (2001). Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the solvent-producing bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum. J Bacteriol 183, 4823-4838.
36. Perry, K. M., Fauman, E. B., Finer-Moore, J. S., Montfort, W. R., Maley, G. F., Maley, F. & Stroud, R. M. (1990). Plastic adaptation toward mutations in proteins: structural comparison of thymidylate synthases. Proteins 8, 315-333.
37. Perryman, S. M., Rossana, C., Deng, T. L., Vanin, E. F. & Johnson, L. F. (1986). Sequence of a cDNA for mouse thymidylate synthase reveals striking similarity with the prokaryotic enzyme. Mol Biol Evol 3, 313-321.
38. Read, T. D., Peterson, S. N., Tourasse, N. & 49 other authors (2003). The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames and comparison to closely related bacteria. Nature 423, 81-86.
39. Reche, P., Arrebola, R., Olmo, A., Santi, D. V., Gonzalez-Pacanowska, D. & Ruiz-Perez, L. M. (1994). Cloning and expression of the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene from Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 65, 247-258.
40. Richter, J., Puchtler, I. & Fleckenstein, B. (1988). Thymidylate synthase gene of herpesvirus ateles. J Virol 62, 3530-3535.
41. Roos, D. S. (1993). Primary structure of the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene from Toxoplasma gondii. J Biol Chem 268, 6269-6280.
42. Russo, J. J., Bohenzky, R. A., Chien, M. C. & 8 other authors (1996). Nucleotide sequence of the Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (HHV8). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93, 14862-14867.
43. Schiffer, C. A., Clifton, I. J., Davisson, V. J., Santi, D. V. & Stroud, R. M. (1995). The crystal structure of human thymidylate synthase: a structural mechanism for guiding substrates into the active site. Biochemistry 34, 16279-16287.
44. Schlichtherle, I. M., van Houten, J. L. & Roos, D. S. (1996). Cloning and molecular analysis of the bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene in the ciliated protozoan Paramecium tetraurelia. Mol Genet Gen 250, 665-673.
45. Shigenobu, S., Watanabe, H., Hattori, M., Sakaki, Y. & Ishikawa, H. (2000). Genome sequence of the endocellular bacterial symbiont of aphids Buchnera sp. APS. Nature 407, 81-86.
46. Singer, S. C., Richards, C. A., Ferone, R., Benedict, D. & Ray, P. (1989). Cloning, purification, and properties of Candida albicans thymidylate synthase. J Bacteriol 171, 1372-1378.
47. Tamas, I., Klasson, L., Canbaeck, B., Naeslund, A. K., Eriksson, A. S., Wernegreen, J. J., Sandstroem, J. P., Moran, N. A. & Andersson, S. G. E. (2002). 50 million years of genomic stasis in endosymbiotic bacteria. Science 296, 2376-2379.
48. Taylor, G. R., Lagosky, P. A., Storms, R. K. & Haynes, R. H. (1987). Molecular characterization of the cell cycle-regulated thymidylate synthase gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 262, 5298-5307.
49. Telford, E. A. R., Watson, M. S., Aird, H. C., Perry, J. & Davison, A. J. (1995). The DNA sequence of equine herpesvirus 2. J Mol Biol 249, 520-528.
50. Tian, L, & Tam, J. W. O. (1998). Molecular cloning of thymidylate synthase from Ascaris suum. Submitted to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
51. Tong, Y. (1998). Thymidylate synthase (TS) that contain single residue substitutions within the highly conserved Arg50-loop, which binds the pyrimidine substrate. J Biol Chem 273, 11611-11618.
52. Tsai, M. F., Yu, H. T., Tzeng, H. F. & 7 other authors (2000). Identification and characterization of a shrimp white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) gene that encodes a novel chimeric polypeptide of cellular-type thymidine kinase and thymidylate kinase. Virology 277, 100-110.
53. Van Dijk, M. R., McConkey, G. A., Vinkenoog, R., Waters, A. P. & Janse, C. J. (1994). Mechanisms of pyrimethamine resistance in two different strains of Plasmodium berghei. Mol Biochem Parasitol 68, 167-171.
54. Van Ham, R. C. H. J., Kamerbeek, J., Palacios, C. & 13 other authors (2003). Reductive genome evolution in Buchnera aphidicola. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100, 581-586.
55. Van Hulten, M. C. W., Tsai, M. F., Schipper, C. A., Lo, C. F., Kou, G. H. & Vlak, J. M. (2000). Analysis of a genomic segment of white spot syndrome virus of shrimp containing ribonucleotide reductase genes and repeat regions. J Gen Virol 81, 307-316.
56. Van Hulten, M. C. W., Wittenberg, M., Goodall, S. D. & Vlak, J. M. (2001). Identification of two major virion protein genes of white spot syndrome virus of shrimp. Virology 266, 227-236.
57. Wang, M., Ratnam, S. & Freisheim, J. H. (1995). Cloning, nucleotide sequence and expression of the bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase from Glycine max. Biochim Biophys Acta 1261, 325-336.
58. Yang, F., He, J., Lin, X., Li, Q., Pan, D., Zhang, X. & Xu, X. (2001). Complete genome sequence of the shrimp white spot syndrome virus. J Virol 75, 11811-11820.
59. Zhang, X., Huang, C., Xu, X. & Hew, C. L. (2002). Transcription and identification of an envelope protein gene (p22) from shrimp white spot syndrome virus. J Gen Virol 83, 471-477.