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Revisiting VH1 phosphatase at the time of monkeypox: back to the spotlight

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BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
卷 51, 期 4, 页码 1419-1427

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PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BST20200408

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Vaccinia virus is a poxvirus used for smallpox vaccine development. Despite smallpox being declared eradicated, it still poses a bioterrorism threat. The importance of exploring druggable targets for poxvirus infections is highlighted by recent monkeypox outbreaks. VH1 phosphatase, a dual specificity phosphatase, is an ideal candidate for anti-poxvirus agent discovery due to its conservation within the poxviridae family and significant divergence from its human ortholog VHR phosphatase.
Vaccinia virus is a poxvirus that has been successfully leveraged to develop vaccines for smallpox, which is caused by the closely related Variola virus. Smallpox has been declared as 'eradicated' by the WHO in 1980; however, it still poses a potential bioterror-ism threat. More recently, the spreading of monkeypox (MPox) in non-endemic countries has further highlighted the importance of continuing the exploration for druggable targets for poxvirus infections. The vaccinia H1 (VH1) phosphatase is the first reported dual spe-cificity phosphatase (DUSP) able to hydrolyze both phosphotyrosine and phosphoserine/ phosphotheonine residues. VH1 is a 20 kDa protein that forms a stable dimer and can dephosphorylate both viral and cellular substrates to regulate the viral replication cycle and host immune response. VH1 dimers adopt a domain swap mechanism with the first 20 amino acids of each monomer involved in dense electrostatic interaction and salt bridge formations while hydrophobic interactions between the N-terminal and C-terminal helices further stabilize the dimer. VH1 appears to be an ideal candidate for discovery of novel anti-poxvirus agents because it is highly conserved within the poxviridae family and is a virulence factor, yet it displays significant divergence in sequence and dimerization mechanism from its human closest ortholog vaccinia H1-related (VHR) phosphatase, encoded by the DUSP3 gene. As the dimeric quaternary structure of VH1 is essential for its phosphatase activity, strategies leading to disruption of the dimer structure might aid in VH1 inhibitor development.

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