title: Nucleotide sequence of the transforming region of human cytomegalovirus.
abstract: We report the nucleotide sequence of a BamHI-HindIII fragment of human cytomegalovirus containing the region (XbaI-HindIII) capable of transforming NIH3T3 cells. The single EcoRI site, shown to abolish transforming activity if cleaved, is present within an 8 base-pair inverted complementary repeat. Close to this sequence there is a small, potentially spliced, open reading frame possessing some of the signals involved in eukaryotic gene expression. Possible mechanisms of transformation, involving the inverted repeat sequence, are discussed.
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000378:metabolism; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000235:genetics*; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D005814:Genes, Viral; D006801:Humans; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral