title: Blackberry virus E: an unusual flexivirus.
abstract: A virus, named blackberry virus E (BVE), was recently discovered in blackberries and characterized. The virus genome is 7,718 nt long, excluding the poly-A tail, contains five open reading frames (ORFs) and resembles that of flexiviruses. Phylogenetic analysis revealed relationships to allexiviruses, which are known to infect plants of the family Alliaceae. BVE lacks the 3'end-proximal ORF, which encodes a nucleotide-binding protein, a putative silencing suppressor in allexiviruses. The overall results of this study suggest that this virus is an atypical and as yet undescribed flexivirus that is closely related to allexiviruses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA. ss501@msstate.edu
authors.forename: Sead
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sabanadzovic
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Abou Ghanem-Sabanadzovic
authors.forename: Ioannis E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Tzanetakis
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D052677:Flexiviridae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000821:virology; D027824:Rosaceae / Q000821:virology*