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. 1991 Aug;65(8):4414–4423. doi: 10.1128/jvi.65.8.4414-4423.1991

Phenotype-specific phosphorylation of simian virus 40 tsA mutant large T antigens in tsA N-type and A-type transformants.

U Knippschild 1, J Kiefer 1, T Patschinsky 1, W Deppert 1
PMCID: PMC248881  PMID: 1649337

Abstract

To identify molecular differences between simian virus 40 (SV40) tsA58 mutant large tumor antigen (large T) in cells of tsA58 N-type transformants [FR(tsA58)A cells], which revert to the normal phenotype after the cells are shifted to the nonpermissive growth temperature, and mutant large T in tsA58 A-type transformants [FR(tsA58)57 cells], which maintain their transformed phenotype after the temperature shift, we asked whether the biological activity of these mutant large T antigens at the nonpermissive growth temperature might correlate with phosphorylation at specific sites. At the permissive growth temperature, the phosphorylation patterns of the mutant large T proteins in FR(tsA58)A (N-type) cells and in FR(tsA58)57 (A-type) cells were largely indistinguishable from that of wild-type large T in FR(wt648) cells. After a shift to the nonpermissive growth temperature, no significant changes in the phosphorylation patterns of wild-type large T in FR(wt648) or of mutant large T in FR(tsA58)57 (A-type) cells were observed. In contrast, the phosphorylation pattern of mutant large T in FR(tsA58)A (N-type) cells changed in a characteristic manner, leading to an apparent underphosphorylation at specific sites. Phosphorylation of the cellular protein p53 was analyzed in parallel. Characteristic differences in the phosphorylation pattern of p53 were observed when cells of N-type and A-type transformants were kept at 39 degrees C as opposed to 32 degrees C. However, these differences did not relate to the different phenotypes of FR(tsA58)A (N-type) and FR(tsA58)57 (A-type) cells at the nonpermissive growth temperature. Our results, therefore, suggest that phosphorylation of large T at specific sites correlates with the transforming activity of tsA mutant large T in SV40 N-type and A-type transformants. This conclusion was substantiated by demonstrating that the biological properties as well as the phosphorylation patterns of SV40 tsA28 mutant large T in cells of SV40 tsA28 N-type and A-type transformants were similar to those in FR(tsA58)A (N-type) and in FR(tsA58)57 (A-type) cells, respectively. The phenotype-specific phosphorylation of tsA mutant large T in tsA A-type transformants probably is a cellular process induced during establishment of SV40 tsA A-type transformants, since tsA28 A-type transformant cells could be obtained by a large-T-dependent in vitro progression of cells of the tsA28 N-type transformant tsA28.3 (M. Osborn and K. Weber, J. Virol. 15:636-644, 1975).

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