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Effect of basic and nonbasic amino acid substitutions on transport induced by simian virus 40 T-antigen synthetic peptide nuclear transport signals.

Department of Virology and Immunology, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas 78284.

ABSTRACT

A previous study demonstrated the ability of a synthetic peptide homologous to the simian virus 40 T-antigen nuclear transport signal to induce the nuclear transport of carrier proteins and the dependence of peptide-induced transport on a positive charge at the lysine corresponding to amino acid 128 of T antigen. In this investigation synthetic peptides were utilized to examine the effect on transport of amino acid substitutions within the T-antigen nuclear transport signal. Nuclear transport was evaluated by immunofluorescence after microinjection of protein-peptide conjugates into the cytoplasm of mammalian cells. Substitution of other basic amino acids at position 128 revealed a hierarchy for nuclear transport. The rate of nuclear transport was most rapid when a lysine was at position 128 followed in descending order by arginine, D-lysine, ornithine, and p-aminophenylalanine. Peptide-induced nuclear transport was dependent upon a positively charged amino acid at positions 128 and 129, since substitutions of neutral asparagines at these positions abolished transport. However, partial transport was observed with the peptide having an asparagine at position 128 when a high number of peptides were conjugated to the carrier protein.

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