Human Orf

Orf

DURING the spring and early summer of 1955 an unusually large number of cases of orf were seen in patients attending the various skin clinics in Northern Ireland. The condition aroused considerable interest, and it is hoped that these notes may prove helpful to local practitioners. Orf is an infective disease, caused by a filtrable virus of the pox group, affecting commonly sheep and goats. The...

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independent replicate experiments. Deletion of these genes affects the fitness of mutant strains in iron deficiency. The requirement for growth of each gene was quantified as a log 2 ratio of growth of the corresponding mutant strain in YPD with BPS compared to YPD alone. The log 2 fitness represents the average of the significant values in these experiments. A negative value indicates sensitiv...

Etymologia: Orf

The human herpesvirus-8 ORF 57 gene and its properties.

Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) is a gamma(2) lymphotropic herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, a major neoplasm of AIDS patients, and with other AIDS-related neoplasms. The HHV-8 ORF 57 gene is conserved throughout the herpesvirus family and has a herpes simplex virus type 1 homologue, IE63 (also termed ICP27), which is an essential regulatory protein and acts at both transcriptional and ...

Systematic recovery and analysis of full-ORF human cDNA clones.

The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) consortium (http://mgc.nci.nih.gov) seeks to establish publicly available collections of full-ORF cDNAs for several organisms of significance to biomedical research, including human. To date over 15,200 human cDNA clones containing full-length open reading frames (ORFs) have been identified via systematic expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis of a diverse set...