Publication Date:
1982-06-25
Description:
Avian myeloblastosis virus is defective in reproductive capacity, requiring a helper virus to provide the viral proteins essential for synthesis of new infectious virus. This virus arose by recombination of the nondefective helper virus and host cellular sequences present within the normal avian genome. These latter sequences are essential for leukemogenic activity. The complete nucleotide sequence of this region is reported. Within the acquired cellular sequences there is an open reading frame of 795 nucleotides starting with the initiation codon ATG (adenine, thymine, guanine) and terminating with the triplet TAG. This open reading frame could code for the putative transforming protein of 265 amino acids with a molecular weight of approximately 30,000.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rushlow, K E -- Lautenberger, J A -- Papas, T S -- Baluda, M A -- Perbal, B -- Chirikjian, J G -- Reddy, E P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Jun 25;216(4553):1421-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6283631" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Avian Leukosis Virus/*genetics
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Avian Myeloblastosis Virus/*genetics
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Avian Sarcoma Viruses/genetics
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Base Sequence
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Cell Transformation, Viral
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Chickens/genetics
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DNA Restriction Enzymes
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Gene Expression Regulation
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*Genes, Viral
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RNA, Viral/analysis
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Viral Proteins/biosynthesis
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
