TABLE 1.

Properties of PrV UL48 and UL49 genes and gene products

Gene	Nucleotide positionsa			mRNA size (kb)		Protein			% Related/% identical residues in homologous proteins from:
	ORF	TATA box	Poly(A) signal	Expected	Apparent	No. of amino acids	Mass (kDa)
							Expected	Apparent	EHV-1	BHV-1	VZV	HSV-1
UL49	97-846	55-61	842-847	>0.8	0.9	249	25.86	33	42.3/39.1	37.3/33.6	36.3/32.7	42.1/36.0
UL48	910-2,151	838-844	6,759-6,764b	>5.9	5.6	413	45.11	53-57	60.6/52.5	57.3/51.0	59.7/49.4	46.6/40.8

^aNucleotide positions refer to the published DNA sequence (GenBank accession no. AJ437285).

^bLocalized by the addition of previously described sequences (GenBank accession no. AJ010303).