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. 1996;13(3):239-46.
doi: 10.1007/BF00366984.

Rice tungro spherical virus: nucleotide sequence of the 3' genomic half and studies on the two small 3' open reading frames

V Thole  1 , R Hull
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Rice tungro spherical virus: nucleotide sequence of the 3' genomic half and studies on the two small 3' open reading frames

V Thole et al. Virus Genes. 1996.

Abstract

Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) consists of a single-stranded RNA genome of about 12 kilobases that contains one large open reading frame, ORF 1 and two small ORFs 2 and 3 at its 3' end (Shen et al., 1993, Virology 193:621-630); it was suggested that ORF 2 was expressed via a frameshift. To study the genomic information of RTSV and the variation between different RTSV isolates, the 3' half of a Philippine isolate and parts of a Thai and an Indian isolate were cloned and sequenced. Significant sequence differences were found in ORF 2 and in the 3' non-translated region. Additional stop codons have been revealed in the previously described ORF 2 in several independent clones from the three different virus isolates, the most conserved stop codon in the middle of ORF 2 being confirmed by direct RNA sequencing. These results suggest that ORF 2 could only express a peptide of about 5 kDa instead of 12 kDa as proposed earlier. Polyclonal antisera were raised against ORF 2 and 3 proteins as fusions with glutathione-S-transferase. Using these antisera we failed to detect any virus-specific peptides in extracts from infected rice plants and in virus preparations. The nucleotide sequence of the 3' end of our RTSV isolates contains several small ORFs and does not contain a repeat of 256 nucleotides found in the published sequence. These results indicate that RTSV could contain an unusually long 3' non-coding region of 1240 nucleotides in length.

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