Av. Kaliman et al., STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF THE RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE OF AUJESZKYS-DISEASE VIRUS, Acta veterinaria Hungarica, 42(2-3), 1994, pp. 251-261
A gene construct of the Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) genome was prep
ared and the DNA fragment encoding the ribonucleotide reductase was st
ructurally characterized. We determined the entire DNA sequence of two
adjacent open reading frames of the ribonucleotide reductase genes wi
th the intergenic sequence of nine base pairs. From the sequence analy
sis we predict that Aujeszky's disease virus encodes a ribonucleotide
reductase which comprises two polypeptides - large and small subunits,
with sizes of 835 and 303 amino acids, respectively. Nucleotide and a
mino acid sequences of the large and small subunits of the Aujeszky's
disease virus ribonucleotide reductase have been compared with that of
other herpesviruses, and structural features of both proteins have be
en characterized.