title: Molecular evolution of human paramyxoviruses. Nucleotide sequence analyses of the human parainfluenza type 1 virus NP and M protein genes and construction of phylogenetic trees for all the human paramyxoviruses.
abstract: The nucleotide sequences of the NP and M genes of human parainfluenza type 1 virus (HPIV-1) were determined. The NP gene was 1677 nucleotides long excluding polyadenylic acid. The NP gene contained a single large open reading frame (ORF), which encoded a polypeptide of 524 amino acids with a calculated molecular weight of 57,736. The M gene 1173 nucleotides long excluding the poly(A) tract and the sequence also contained a single large ORF which encoded a polypeptide of 348 amino acid with a molecular weight of 38,445, which was inconsistent with 28 kDa previously determined by SDS-PAGE. We aligned the deduced HPIV-1 NP and M protein sequences with 12 and 13 other paramyxoviruses, respectively, suggesting that a common tertiary structure was found in the NPs or Ms of HPIV-1, Sendai virus (SV), HPIV-3 and BPIV-3 and that other common structure was also maintained in these proteins of HPIV-2, SV 41 and 5, MuV, HPIV-4. Phylogenetic trees were constructed for the NP and M proteins of all the paramyxoviruses of which nucleotide sequences had been previously reported. Paramyxoviruses could be subdivided into two groups, i.e., PIV-1 group and PIV-2 group; the former group is composed of HPIV-1, SV, HPIV-3 and BPIV-3, and the latter group consists of HPIV-2, SV 41, SV 5, MuV, HPIV-4 A and HPIV-4 B.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyahara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kitada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshimoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawano
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Komada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsurudome
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kusagawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004279:DNA, Viral; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D010252:Paramyxoviridae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014709:Vero Cells; D014758:Viral Core Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D014758:Viral Core Proteins; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins