title: Expression and identification of HERV-W family in Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata).
abstract: We investigated structural genes (gag, pol, env) of HERV-W family in the Macaca fuscata (Japanese monkey). Those genes are expressed in various tissues (testis, prostate, kidney, cerebellum, thymus, pancreas, intestine, stomach, ovary) of the Japanese monkey in RT-PCR and sequencing analyses. Nine clones for gag, thirty-one clones for pol and thirty-four clones for env fragments of the HERV-W family in monkey tissues were identified and analyzed. These clones showed a high degree of sequence similarity, 82.2-84.7% for gag, 88.4-91.7% for pol, and 90.8-95.4% for env, to those of HERV-W family. Translation to amino acids in all clones derived from the monkey indicated that they showed multiple interruptions of frameshifts and termination codons by deletion/insertion or point mutation. Identical sequences from different tissues of the monkey were found in env and pol clones of the HERV-W family.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Korea.
authors.forename: Joo-Mi
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Takenaka
authors.forename: Heui-Soo
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D020077:Endogenous Retroviruses / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015870:Gene Expression; D015752:Genes, env / Q000235:genetics*; D015750:Genes, gag / Q000235:genetics*; D015751:Genes, pol / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008251:Macaca / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D012333:RNA, Messenger