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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2010;342:79–98. doi: 10.1007/82_2009_7

Table 1.

In vivo and in vitro proteins substrates of the ORF66/US3 kinases

Alphaherpesvirus ORF66/US3
phosphorylated
protein substrate
In vivo/
in vitro
target?
Function
VZV (Eisfeld et al. 2006; Erazo et al. 2008; Kinchington et al. 2000; Kinchington and Turse 1998) IE62 (ICP4) +/+ IE62 cytoplasmic accumulation/IE62 tegument inclusion
VZV, HSV, PRV Matrin 3 +/ND ?
VZV (Walters et al. 2009), HSV-1 (Poon and Roizman 2007) HDAC 1 and 2 +/ND Block HDAC transcriptional repression
HSV-1 (Kato et al. 2009; Wisner et al. 2009) γB +/+ Downregulate γB surface expression, promote virion nuclear egress
HSV-1 (Kato et al. 2005; Mou et al. 2009) UL31 +/+ Promote virion nuclear egress
HSV-1 (Kato et al. 2005; Purves et al. 1991; Ryckman and Roller 2004) UL34 +/+ ?
HSV-1 (Mou et al. 2007) Lamin A/C +/+ Disrupt nuclear lamina, promote virion nuclear egress
HSV-1 (Leach et al. 2007) Emerin +/ND Disrupt nuclear lamina, promote virion nuclear egress
HSV1,2 (Daikoku et al. 1994; Kato et al. 2005) US9 +?/+ ?
HSV-1 (Kato et al. 2005; Purves et al. 1993; Smith-Donald and Roizman 2008) ICP22 +?/+ ?
HSV-2 (Daikoku et al. 1995) UL12 ND/+ ?
HSV-2 (Murata et al. 2002) Cytokeratin 17 +?/+ Cell morphological changes
HSV-1 (Cartier et al. 2003b; Kato et al. 2005) Bad +/+ Block apoptosis
HSV-1 (Cartier et al. 2003a; Kato et al. 2005) Bid ND/+/− Block apoptosis, mediate protection from granzyme B cleavage of Bid
HSV-1 (Liang and Roizman 2008) IFNRa +/ND Inhibit activation of IFN-γ genes
HSV-1 (Benetti and Roizman 2004) PKA +/ND PKA activation
PRV (Van den Broeke et al. 2009b) PAK1 and PAK2 +/+ Actin projection formation and stress fiber dissasembly
HSV-1 (Benetti and Roizman 2007) Procaspase 3 ND/+ Block activation of procaspase 3 and apoptosis
HSV-1 (Smith-Donald and Roizman 2008) cdc25C Phosphatase ND/+ Enhance interaction with ICP22, optimize viral gene expression

Specific US3 kinase and its protein target are noted. Evidence of US3 induced phosphorylation in vivo or in vitro is denoted by a plus (+) sign or not determined (ND). Functions associated with phosphorylation of each protein are also listed