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Review
. 1993 Sep;59(3):343-89.
doi: 10.1016/0163-7258(93)90075-o.

Viral protein kinases and protein phosphatases

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Viral protein kinases and protein phosphatases

D P Leader. Pharmacol Ther. 1993 Sep.

Abstract

Certain large DNA viruses (e.g. herpesviruses and poxviruses) encode proteins related to cellular protein-serine/threonine kinases, and Hepatitis B virus and vesicular stomatitis virus may encode structurally different protein kinases. Other viruses activate cellular protein kinases, e.g. interferon-induced eukaryotic initiation factor-2 kinase, growth factor-induced kinases and protein kinases that regulate mitosis. Protein phosphatases are encoded by vaccinia virus and bacteriophage lambda and must also play a role in viral infection--as do cellular protein phosphatases. The functions of many of these viral enzymes remain to be determined, but they represent possible new targets for anti-viral therapy.

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