title: Nucleotide sequence of the p74 gene of a baculovirus pathogenic to the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus.
abstract: Polypeptide p74 has been found to be essential for production of virulent occlusion bodies of the baculovirus Autographa californica multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV). Hybridization with AcMNPV-derived probes has led to the location of the p74 gene in the spruce budworm virus, Choristoneura fumiferana MNPV. Sequence data indicate that CfMNPV p74 is 73% identical to AcMNPV at the nucleotide level and 77% identical at the amino acid level. Elements of predicted secondary structure are also conserved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuzio
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: MacKinnon
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Faulkner
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D001483:Base Sequence; D005814:Genes, Viral; D016679:Genome, Viral; D007915:Lepidoptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid