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SUBMITTER: Bako L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC187781 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bakó László L Umeda Masaaki M Tiburcio Antonio F AF Schell Jeff J Koncz Csaba C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030804 17
The bacterial virulence protein VirD2 plays an important role in nuclear import and chromosomal integration of Agrobacterium-transferred DNA in fungal, plant, animal, and human cells. Here we show that in nuclei of alfalfa cells, VirD2 interacts with and is phosphorylated by CAK2Ms, a conserved plant ortholog of cyclin-dependent kinase-activating kinases. CAK2Ms binds to and phosphorylates the C-terminal regulatory domain of RNA polymerase II largest subunit, which can recruit the TATA box-bindi ...[more]