title: Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) strain HSZP host shutoff gene: nucleotide sequence and comparison with HSV-1 strains differing in early shutoff of host protein synthesis.
abstract: The UL41 gene of the HSZP strain of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) defective with respect to the early shutoff of host protein synthesis was sequenced and compared with the corresponding HSV-1 strain KOS and 17 gene sequences. In comparison with strain 17, nine mutations (base changes) were HSZP specific, five KOS specific and four were common for both strains. Nine mutations caused codon changes. Three of these mapped to the nonconserved regions and the others to the conserved regions of the functional map of UL41 gene. One KOS specific mutation mapped to the region responsible for the binding of the virion host shutoff (vhs) protein to the alpha-transinducing factor (VP16). The possible relationship between mutations and host shutoff function is discussed. The nucleotide sequence data of the UL41 gene of HSZP and KOS have been submitted to the Genbank nucleotide database and have been assigned the accession numbers Z72337 and Z72338.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vojvodová
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kúdelová
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rajcáni
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D004279:DNA, Viral; D018259:Herpesvirus 1, Human / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D011817:Rabbits; D012260:Ribonucleases; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D014709:Vero Cells; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; C081688:Ul41 protein, Human herpesvirus 1; D014764:Viral Proteins; C070722:virion host shutoff protein, Simplexvirus; D012260:Ribonucleases