title: Structure and transcription of the glycoprotein gene of attenuated HEP-Flury strain of rabies virus.
abstract: The mRNA-encoding G protein of the attenuated HEP-Flury strain of rabies virus was sequenced by the cDNA cloning technique. The G-mRNA was composed of 2059 nucleotides, with the coding region located from the 28th to 1602nd nucleotide, and was capable of encoding a polypeptide of 524 amino acids. Although the coding region was highly homologous (90% or more) to that of ERA and PV strains, the 3' noncoding region of the HEP virus G-mRNA was longer than that reported for other strains by some 400 nucleotides. The extra sequence was homologous to the long G-L intergenic sequence of the PV viral genome. The HEP virus genome lacked the postulated polyadenylating signal (TG-AAAAAAAA) that should have been found just before the "long G-L intergenic region," which indicates that the long G-L intergenic region of the HEP virus is integrated into the preceding G gene, and is transcribed only as a portion of the G-mRNA molecule. In the ERA virus-infected cells, however, two species of G-mRNA (1.9 and 2.3 kb long) were produced. The longer G-mRNA also contained the sequence complementary to the long G-L intergenic region and the shorter one did not. These findings suggest that two different poly(A)-tailing signals (one is present just before and another at the end of the long G-L intergenic region) work toward terminating the transcription of the ERA virus G gene and that the longer G-mRNA is produced as a readthrough product.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohkubo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kawai
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000235:genetics*; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D006023:Glycoproteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012367:RNA, Viral; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins