title: Genetic characterization of the Capra hircus papillomavirus: a novel close-to-root artiodactyl papillomavirus.
abstract: The healthy skin of a seven-year-old female goat (Capra hircus) was sampled with a cotton tip swab. Total genomic DNA was extracted from the sample and subjected to multiply primed rolling-circle amplification (RCA). Restriction analysis showed that the complete genome of a papillomavirus was amplified, measuring approximately 7,600 bp in length. The Capra hircus papillomavirus (ChPV-1) genome was cloned from this rolling-circle amplification product, and the complete nucleotide sequence was determined. The ChPV-1 genome counts 7,542 bp, and contains the typical papillomaviral open reading frames (ORFs). Based on a concatenated alignment of the E1, E2, L1 and L2 open reading frames of ChPV-1 and 54 other animal and human papillomavirus types, a neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree was constructed. In this tree ChPV-1 clusters with BPV-3, -4 and -6. Pairwise nucleotide sequence alignments of the L1 open reading frame of ChPV-1 with its closest relatives showed less than 60% similarity, placing the ChPV-1 in a novel genus.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Minderbroedersstraat 10, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Koenraad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Van Doorslaer
authors.forename: Annabel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rector
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vos
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Ranst
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006041:Goats / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D021141:Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012867:Skin / Q000821:virology; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins