PMID- 26315341 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160801 LR - 20220801 IS - 1573-6881 (Electronic) IS - 0145-479X (Linking) VI - 47 IP - 5 DP - 2015 Oct TI - A novel viral thymidylate kinase with dual kinase activity. PG - 431-40 LID - 10.1007/s10863-015-9622-z [doi] AB - Nucleotide phosphorylation is a key step in DNA replication and viral infections, since suitable levels of nucleotide triphosphates pool are required for this process. Deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) is produced either by de novo or salvage pathways, which is further phosphorylated to deoxythymidine triphosphate (dTTP). Thymidyne monophosphate kinase (TMK) is the enzyme in the junction of both pathways, which phosphorylates dTMP to yield deoxythymidine diphosphate (dTDP) using adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as a phosphate donor. White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) genome contains an open reading frame (ORF454) that encodes a thymidine kinase and TMK domains in a single polypeptide. We overexpressed the TMK ORF454 domain (TMKwssv) and its specific activity was measured with dTMP and dTDP as phosphate acceptors. We found that TMKwssv can phosphorylate dTMP to yield dTDP and also is able to use dTDP as a substrate to produce dTTP. Kinetic parameters K M and k cat were calculated for dTMP (110 muM, 3.6 s(-1)), dTDP (251 muM, 0.9 s(-1)) and ATP (92 muM, 3.2 s(-1)) substrates, and TMKwssv showed a sequential ordered bi-bi reaction mechanism. The binding constants K d for dTMP (1.9 muM) and dTDP (10 muM) to TMKwssv were determined by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry. The affinity of the nucleotidic analog stavudine monophosphate was in the same order of magnitude (K d 3.6 muM) to the canonical substrate dTMP. These results suggest that nucleotide analogues such as stavudine could be a suitable antiviral strategy for the WSSV-associated disease. FAU - Guevara-Hernandez, Eduardo AU - Guevara-Hernandez E AD - Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), Carretera a Ejido La Victoria Km 0.6, Apartado Postal 1735, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83304, Mexico. AD - Departamento de Investigacion y Posgrado en Alimentos, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Rosales y Luis Encinas, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, Mexico. FAU - Arvizu-Flores, Aldo A AU - Arvizu-Flores AA AD - Departamento de Ciencias Quimico Biologicas, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Rosales y Luis Encinas, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, Mexico. aldoarvizu@guayacan.uson.mx. FAU - Lugo-Sanchez, Maria E AU - Lugo-Sanchez ME AD - Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), Carretera a Ejido La Victoria Km 0.6, Apartado Postal 1735, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83304, Mexico. FAU - Velazquez-Contreras, Enrique F AU - Velazquez-Contreras EF AD - Departamento de Ciencias Quimico Biologicas, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Rosales y Luis Encinas, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, Mexico. FAU - Castillo-Yanez, Francisco J AU - Castillo-Yanez FJ AD - Departamento de Ciencias Quimico Biologicas, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Rosales y Luis Encinas, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, Mexico. FAU - Brieba, Luis G AU - Brieba LG AD - Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados-Unidad Irapuato, Km 9.6 Libramiento Norte Carretera Irapuato-Leon, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Guanajuato, 36500, Mexico. FAU - Sotelo-Mundo, Rogerio R AU - Sotelo-Mundo RR AD - Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, A.C. (CIAD), Carretera a Ejido La Victoria Km 0.6, Apartado Postal 1735, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83304, Mexico. rrs@ciad.mx. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150828 PL - United States TA - J Bioenerg Biomembr JT - Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes JID - 7701859 RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) RN - EC 2.7.4.4 (Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase) RN - EC 2.7.4.9 (dTMP kinase) SB - IM MH - Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase/antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/genetics MH - *Open Reading Frames MH - Protein Structure, Tertiary MH - Substrate Specificity/physiology MH - Viral Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/genetics MH - White spot syndrome virus 1/*enzymology/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - Diphosphate kinase OT - Isothermal titration calorimetry OT - Nucleotide phosphorylation OT - Thymidylate kinase OT - White spot syndrome virus EDAT- 2015/09/01 06:00 MHDA- 2016/08/02 06:00 CRDT- 2015/08/29 06:00 PHST- 2015/03/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/08/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/08/29 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/09/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/08/02 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s10863-015-9622-z [pii] AID - 10.1007/s10863-015-9622-z [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Bioenerg Biomembr. 2015 Oct;47(5):431-40. doi: 10.1007/s10863-015-9622-z. Epub 2015 Aug 28.