5'-Phosphoribosylglycinamide synthetase (EC 6.3.4.13) and 5'-phosphoribosyl 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide transformylase (EC 2.1.2.3) are enzymes involved in the de novo purine nucleotide synthesis and are encoded by purD and purH genes of Escherichia coli, respectively. A 3535-nucleotide sequence containing the purHD locus and the upstream region of the rrnE gene was determined. This sequence...

Neuropeptide Y (Npy) is an intricate neuropeptide regulating numerous physiological processes. It a highly conserved peptide known to improve feed intake in many vertebrates, including fishes. To enlighten the mechanism of Npy spotted scat control, we cloned and identified cDNA sequence. We further examined its expression some tissues explored effects at different time frames (hours days). Here...

Human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) contains the pX sequence which codes for the trans-activator of the long terminal repeat (LTR) and is thus postulated to be associated with leukemogenesis in adult T-cell leukemia. Overlapping open reading frames (ORF) in the pX sequence were recently found to code for p27x-III and p21x-III by ORF III, in addition to p40x coded for by ORF IV. The mech...

A physical map of the genome of Adoxophyes orana granulovirus (AoGV) was constructed for the restriction enzymes BamHI, BglII, EcoRI, PstI and SacI using restriction endonuclease analysis and DNA hybridization techniques. This enabled the size of the AoGV genome to be estimated at 100.9 kbp. A plasmid library covering 99.9% of the AoGV genome was constructed using five restriction enzymes. The ...

Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV1), associated with the picorna-like superfamily, infects the chestnut blight fungus and attenuates the virulence of the host fungus. The genomic RNA of the virus has two continuous open reading frames, A and B, separated by the pentanucleotide UAAUG. We present here evidence suggesting that ORF B is translated from genome-sized virus mRNA by a coupled termination/...

Over 85% of patients with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) are seropositive for antibodies to the latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) expressed in B cell lines infected with Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). The presence of antibodies to LANA strongly correlates with the risk of developing the disease. However, the identity of the protein(s) comprising LANA and the corresponding gene(s...

Jena virus (JV) is a noncultivatable bovine enteric calicivirus associated with diarrhea in calves and was first described in Jena, Germany. The virus was serially passaged 11 times in colostrum-deprived newborn calves and caused diarrheal disease symptoms at each passage. The complete JV genome sequence was determined by using cDNA made from partially purified virus obtained from a single stoo...

The pX region of the human T-cell leukemia/lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) contains at least four open reading frames (orfI-orfIV). orf III and orf IV encode the regulatory HTLV-I proteins Rex and Tax, which together modulate viral expression, and the p21rex protein of unknown function. By using the reverse transcriptase and polymerase chain reaction techniques on the RNA of an HTLV-I-infect...

Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) establishes a latent infection in sensory ganglionic neurons of infected animals. Expression of latency-related (LR) gene products is controlled by a 980-bp fragment (LR promoter). DNA sequence analysis revealed that two major open reading frames (ORFs) are in the LR gene. Antibodies directed against both ORFs were generated in rabbits by using synthetic peptides. A...