title: Comparative analysis of the prion protein open reading frame nucleotide sequences in peacock and parakeet.
abstract: The open reading frame of peacock and parakeet prion protein (PrP) genes was cloned and sequenced. The peacock and parakeet PrP genes consisted of 833 and 866 nucleotides encoding 266 and 277 amino acids, respectively (GenBank Accession numbers AY365065 and AY365066). Sequence analysis showed that the peacock and parakeet PrP genes had 93.67% homology to each other, 94.04% and 99.64% homology to the chicken PrP gene and 46.0% and 42.1% similarity to the mammalian PrP genes, respectively. The structural features of all known mammalian and avian PrPs, including N-terminal signal peptides, tandem repeats, conserved hydrophobic region, disulfide bridges and glycoinositol phospholipid anchor, were also found in peacock and parakeet PrPs. The parakeet and peacock PrPs, however, differed in the hexarepeat region, with the peacock having six and the parakeet having seven hexarepeats. The phylogenetic analysis showed that the PrP genes in 52 species were clustered into 2 distinct lineages, the avian and the mammalian. The peacock and parakeet PrP genes belonged to the same lineage but the peacock PrP was sub-classed with the pigeon PrP and the parakeet PrP was sub-classed with the duck and chicken PrPs. The present work added two more species data to the collection of the PrP genes and supported the previous findings that the PrP genes are highly conserved across species.
authors.affiliation: National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, 100094, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jian-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: De-Ming
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Hong-Xiang
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yong-Xin
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Zhang-Yong
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Ning
authors.forename: Xiu-Hui
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Qin
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D046094:Galliformes / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010240:Parakeets / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011328:Prions / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D011328:Prions; D004247:DNA
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