Rlq. Russell et Gf. Rohrmann, NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE OF THE UBIQUITIN-39K GENE REGION FROM THE ORGYIA-PSEUDOTSUGATA MULTINUCLEOCAPSID NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS-VIRUS GENOME, Journal of General Virology, 74, 1993, pp. 1191-1195
The region of the Orgyia pseudotsugata multinucleocapsid nuclear polyh
edrosis virus (OpMNPV) genome containing the ubiquitin and the nuclear
matrix-associated protein (39K) genes was sequenced. The first 77 ami
no acids of the OpMNPV ubiquitin open reading frame (ORF) showed 84-4%
and 79% amino acid sequence identity to Autographa californica multin
ucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) and the Spodoptera fru
giperda insect ubiquitin, respectively. The predicted OpMNPV ubiquitin
protein contains a 3' tail of 16 amino acids not present in the AcMNP
V or S. frugiperda ubiquitin ORFs. The OpMNPV 39K ORF showed 56% amino
acid sequence identity with the AcMNPV 39K ORF. Four additional ORFs
from this region were also characterized.