Publication Date:
1985-06-28
Description:
The human T-cell leukemia viruses (HTLV) are replication-competent retroviruses whose genomes contain gag, pol, and env genes as well as a fourth gene, termed x, which is believed to be the transforming gene of HTLV. The product of the x gene is now shown to be encoded by a 2.1-kilobase messenger RNA derived by splicing of at least two introns. By means of S1 nuclease mapping of this RNA and nucleic acid sequence analysis of a complementary DNA clone, the complete primary structure of the x-gene product has been determined. It is encoded by sequences containing the env initiation codon and one nucleotide of the next codon spliced to the major open reading frame of the HTLV-I and HTLV-II x gene.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wachsman, W -- Golde, D W -- Temple, P A -- Orr, E C -- Clark, S C -- Chen, I S -- CA 30388/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA 32737/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA 38597/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1985 Jun 28;228(4707):1534-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2990032" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Cell Transformation, Viral
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Codon
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Deltaretrovirus/*genetics
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Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
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Humans
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Methionine/*genetics
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Rats
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Viral Proteins/*analysis
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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