Nucleotide sequences of the mRNA's encoding the vesicular stomatitis virus N and NS proteins
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- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 39 (2), 529-535
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.39.2.529-535.1981
Abstract
The complete nucleotide sequences of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) mRNA9s encoding the N and NS proteins have been determined from the sequences of cDNA clones. The mRNA encoding the N protein is 1,326 nucleotides long, excluding polyadenylic acid. It contains an open reading frame for translation which extends from the 59-proximal AUG codon to encode a protein of 422 amino acids. The N and mRNA is known to contain a major ribosome binding site at the 59-proximal AUG codon and two other minor ribosome binding sites. These secondary sites have been located unambiguously at the second and third AUG codons in the N mRNA sequence. Translational initiation at these sites, if it in fact occurs, would result in synthesis of two small proteins in a second reading frame. The VSV and mrna encoding the NS protein is 815 nucleotides long, excluding polyadenylic acid, and encodes a protein of 222 amino acids. The predicted molecular weight of the NS protein (25,110) is approximately one-half of that predicted from the mobility of NS protein on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. Deficiency of sodium dodecyl sulfate binding to a large negatively charged domain in the NS protein could explain this anomalous electrophoretic mobility.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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