title: Alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1 has a semaphorin-like gene.
abstract: Alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1, a rhadinovirus causing malignant catarrhal fever of ruminants, has an 1959 nucleotide open reading frame with significant homologies to semaphorin genes. While truncated genes of similar structure have been found in poxviruses, this is the first known example of a semaphorin-like gene in a herpesvirus.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. ensser@viro.med.uni-erlangen.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ensser
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fleckenstein
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D002460:Cell Line; D004279:DNA, Viral; D018142:Gammaherpesvirinae / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors; D014764:Viral Proteins