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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 25, 26358-26369, June 18, 2004

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Characterization of Polynucleotide Kinase/Phosphatase Enzymes from Mycobacteriophages Omega and Cjw1 and Vibriophage KVP40^*

Hui Zhu, Shenmin Yin, and Stewart Shuman

From the Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10021

Coliphage T4 Pnkp is a bifunctional polynucleotide 5'-kinase/3'-phosphatase that catalyzes the end-healing steps of a RNA repair pathway. Here we show that mycobacteriophages Omega and Cjw1 and vibriophage KVP40 also encode bifunctional Pnkp enzymes consisting of a proximal 5'-kinase module with an essential P-loop motif, GXGK(S/T), and a distal 3'-phosphatase module with an essential acyl-phosphatase motif, DX- DGT. Biochemical characterization of the viral Pnkp proteins reveals several shared features, including an alkaline pH optimum for the kinase component, an intrinsic RNA kinase activity, and a homotetrameric or homodimeric quaternary structure, that distinguish them from the monomeric DNA-specific phosphatase/kinase enzymes found in mammals and fission yeast. Whereas the phage 5'-kinases differ from each other in their preferences for phosphorylation of 5' overhangs, blunt ends, or recessed ends, none of them displays the preference for recessed ends reported for mammalian DNA kinase. We hypothesize that Pnkp provides phages that have it with a means to evade an RNA-damaging antiviral host response. Genetic complementation of the essential end-healing steps of yeast tRNA splicing by the Omega and Cjw1 Pnkp enzymes establishes their capacity to perform RNA repair reactions in vivo. A supportive correlation is that Omega and Cjw1, which are distinguished from other mycobacteriophages by their possession of a Pnkp enzyme, are also unique among the mycobacteriophages in their specification of putative RNA ligases.

Received for publication, March 22, 2004

^* This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant GM42498. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: s-shuman{at}ski.mskcc.org.

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