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. 1995 May;69(5):3161–3166. doi: 10.1128/jvi.69.5.3161-3166.1995

Immediate-early transcription from the channel catfish virus genome: characterization of two immediate-early transcripts.

P S Silverstein 1, R C Bird 1, V L van Santen 1, K E Nusbaum 1
PMCID: PMC189018  PMID: 7707544

Abstract

With cDNA probes and by Northern (RNA) blot analysis, a region containing immediate-early (IE) genes in the channel catfish virus (CCV) genome was identified. IE transcription in CCV-infected cells appears to be restricted to the terminal repeat region, suggesting that CCV is most closely related to the alpha subfamily of herpesviruses. CCV DNA fragments from this region encoding IE transcripts were cloned. Northern analysis with one of these cloned fragments, a 3,927-bp EcoRI-XbaI fragment, indicates that it encodes two IE transcripts. Both transcripts (ie1 and ie2) were characterized by S1 nuclease analysis, primer extension analysis, and analysis of cDNAs. The ie2 transcript is a 1.3-kb bicistronic mRNA containing open reading frame (ORF) 8a and ORF 9. ORF 8a is a 5'-truncated version of ORF 8 which, along with ORF 9, was previously identified (A. J. Davison, Virology 186:9-14, 1992). The ie1 transcript is 0.6 kb in size, contains only ORF 9, and is expressed at a level approximately six times that of ie2 in cycloheximide-treated cells. The putative product of ORF 9 is predicted to have a basic pI and contains a potential zinc-binding domain, making it a probable transcription factor. ORF 8a encodes a putative product which is very hydrophobic, an unusual characteristic for an IE protein.

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