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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-2-29
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Alastrim variola minor virus, which causes mild smallpox, was first recognized in Florida and South America in the late 19th century. Genome linear double-stranded DNA sequences (186,986 bp) of the alastrim virus Garcia-1966, a laboratory reference strain from an outbreak associated with 0.8% case fatalities in Brazil in 1966, were determined except for a 530-bp fragment of hairpin-loop sequences at each terminus. The DNA sequences (EMBL Accession No. Y16780) showed 206 potential open reading frames for proteins containing >/=60 amino acids. The amino acid sequences of the putative proteins were compared with those reported for vaccinia virus strain Copenhagen and the Asian variola major strains India-1967 and Bangladesh-1975. About one-third of the alastrim viral proteins were 100% identical to correlates in the variola major strains and the remainder were >/=95% identical. Compared with variola major virus DNA, alastrim virus DNA has additional segments of 898 and 627 bp, respectively, within the left and right terminal regions. The former segment aligns well with sequences in other orthopoxviruses, particularly cowpox and vaccinia viruses, and the latter is apparently alastrim-specific.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0042-6822
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
266
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
361-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10639322-3-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Ankyrin Repeat, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Cowpox virus, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-DNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Genome, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Orthopoxvirus, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Vaccinia virus, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Variola virus, pubmed-meshheading:10639322-Viral Proteins
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Alastrim smallpox variola minor virus genome DNA sequences.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Biology of Genomes, State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (Vector), Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Region, 633159, Russia. snshchel@vector.nsk.su
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't