title: Specificity of cleavage in replicative-form DNA of bovine herpesvirus 1.
abstract: The linear double-stranded DNA genome of herpesvirus as it is present in infectious virions needs to be circularized after infection of host cells and before DNA replication. Replicative-form genomes have to be cleaved into linear unit-length molecules during virion maturation and are most probably the substrate for inversion of the short segment relative to the long segment of the bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) genome. Those regions of the BHV-1 genome which are functionally involved in these processes have been analyzed at the molecular level by cloning and sequencing the genomic termini, the fusion of both termini from replicative-form molecules, and the junction between the short and the long genome segment. On the basis of the simple genome arrangement of BHV-1, it was inferable that the cleavage of replicative-form genomes by a hypothetical BHV-1 terminase activity may be specified by a sequence at the left end of UL (An element), which is located proximal to a reiterated beta element that makes up the cleavage site itself. The relationship of those elements in BHV-1 and the comparison to similar regions of other herpesviruses indicate consensus sequence elements which are functionally important for cleavage and isomerization of viral DNA during maturation of virions.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Virologie, Freien Universität, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hammerschmidt
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ludwig
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Buhk
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004261:DNA Replication; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D015246:Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI; D015247:Deoxyribonuclease HindIII; D005814:Genes, Viral; D007242:Herpesvirus 1, Bovine / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010957:Plasmids; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D015246:Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI; D015247:Deoxyribonuclease HindIII