Human parainfluenza virus type 3: messenger RNAs, polypeptide coding assignments, intergenic sequences, and genetic map.
cDNA clones of mRNAs for the major nucleocapsid protein (NP), the nucleocapsid P protein plus the nonstructural C protein (P+C), and the matrix protein (M) of human parainfluenza virus type 3 (PF3) were identified by hybrid arrest and hybrid selection of in vitro translation. Previously, cDNA clones were identified and sequenced for the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoprotein (HN) and the fusion glycoprotein (F) mRNAs (N. Elango, J. E. Coligan, R. C. Jambou, and S. Venkatesan, J. Virol. 57:481-489, 1986; M. K. Spriggs, R. A. Olmsted, S. Venkatesan, J. E. Coligan, and P. L. Collins, Virology 152:241-251, 1986). Synthetic oligonucleotides, designed from nucleotide sequences of the cDNAs, were used to direct dideoxynucleotide sequencing of gene junctions in PF3 genomic RNA (vRNA). From sequencing of vRNA, a sixth viral gene was detected and identified as the large nucleocapsid protein (L) gene by hybridization of a synthetic oligonucleotide to intracellular PF3 mRNAs separated by gel electrophoresis. The order of the six PF3 genes on vRNA was 3'-NP-P+C-M-F-HN-L-5'. The five intergenic regions consisted of the trinucleotide 3'-GAA. The PF3 genes initiated with semiconserved 10-nucleotide gene-start sequences and terminated with semiconserved 12-nucleotide gene-end sequences. The M gene terminated with an aberrant gene-end sequence; analysis of intracellular mRNA showed that this aberrant sequence correlated with a disproportionately high accumulation of readthrough mRNA. These studies showed that PF3 encodes six unique mRNAs (NP, P+C, M, F, HN, and L) that encode seven proteins (NP, P, C, M, F, HN, and L) and provided evidence of a close relationship between PF3 and Sendai (murine parainfluenza type 1) viruses.
D001483:Base Sequence; D002213:Capsid / Q000235:genetics; D004247:DNA; D005814:Genes, Viral; D010224:Parainfluenza Virus 3, Human / Q000235:genetics*; D010455:Peptides / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D018108:Respirovirus / Q000235:genetics*; D014758:Viral Core Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
D010455:Peptides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012367:RNA, Viral; D014758:Viral Core Proteins; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; D004247:DNA