Characterization of pyrimidine deoxyribonucleoside kinase (thymidine kinase) and thymidylate kinase as a multifunctional enzyme in cells transformed by herpes simplex virus type 1 and in cells infected with mutant strains of herpes simplex virus
Chen, M.S.; Summers, W.P.; Walker, J.; Summers, W.C.; Prusoff, W.H.
Journal of Virology 30(3): 942-945
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-538X PMID: 225551 Accession: 004931102
Pyrimidine deoxyribonucleoside kinase (thymidine kinase [TK]) was purified from 2 herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)-transformed TK-deficient mouse (LMTK-) cell lines and from LMTK- cells infected with HSV-1 mutant viruses coding for variant TK enzymes. These preparations exhibited normal or variant virus-induced thymidylate kinase activities correlating with their relative TK activities. Neither virus-induced activity was detected in LMTK- cells infected with an HSV-1 TK-deficient mutant. HSV-1 thymidylate kinase activity and TK activity are mediated by the same protein.