title: Characterization of the ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase gene of a single nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus of Buzura suppressaria.
abstract: A putative ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase (egt) gene was identified in the single nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus of Buzura suppressaria (BusuNPV). This is the first egt gene to be characterized in a SNPV, suggesting that egt genes are prevalent in nucleopolyhedroviruses and possibly in all baculoviruses. The open reading frame (ORF) of the gene is 1539 nucleotides (nt) long, encoding a putative protein (EGT) of 513 amino acids (aa) with a M of 58922. The 5' noncoding region contains three possible TATA boxes. A polyadenylation signal, AATAAA, was found downstream of the translation stop codon. A putative signal peptide of 16 residues was present at the N-terminus of the EGT. The BusuNPV egt gene has a high degree of nucleotide and amino acid sequence homology to multiple nucleocapsid (M) NPV egt genes, the highest being to the Spodoptera exigua MNPV egt. A phylogenetic tree of eleven known EGTs was constructed using maximum parsimony analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Z H
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Broer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Westerlaken
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Martens
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jehle
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Vlak
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004279:DNA, Viral; D005964:Glucosyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009036:Moths / Q000821:virology; D017924:Nucleopolyhedroviruses / Q000145:classification / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins; D005964:Glucosyltransferases; C086659:ecdysteroid UDP-glucosyltransferase