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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-3-24
pubmed:abstractText
The sequences of nucleoprotein (NP) genes of recent human and turkey isolates of influenza A viruses, which serologically could be correlated to contemporary swine viruses, were determined. These sequences were closely related to the NPs of these swine viruses and they formed a separate branch on the phylogenetic tree. While the early swine virus from 1931 resembled the avian strains in consensus amino acids of the NP and in its ability to rescue NP ts mutants of fowl plague virus in chicken embryo cells, the later strains on that branch were different: at 15 positions they have their own amino acids and they rescued the NP ts mutants only poorly. Of the NPs of the human New Jersey/76 isolates analysed, one clustered with the recent H1N1 swine viruses of the U.S.A., the other one with contemporary human strains. Since the NP is one of the main determinants of species specificity it is concluded that, although the H1N1 swine isolates from the U.S.A. form their own branch in the phylogenetic tree, they can be transmitted to humans and turkeys, but they do not spread further in these populations and so far have not contributed to human pandemics. It is not very likely that they will do so in future, since its branch in the phylogenetic tree develops further away from the human and avian branch.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0168-1702
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
79-87
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic relatedness of the nucleoprotein (NP) of recent swine, turkey, and human influenza A virus (H1N1) isolates.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut für Virologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't