TABLE 3.

Relative expression of VZV ORFs during lytic infection

ORF	Relative expression	Gene function
9	153.3	Abundant tegument phosphoprotein
64	121.4
33	112.0	Protease
49	97.4
63	67.7	Tegument (transactivator/transrepressor)
57	60.8
62	53.7	Transactivator, tegument protein
50	53.3
48	48.1
11	47.9
24	45.6
38	42.9
1	39.3	Membrane protein
58	38.5
20	34.6
2	31.8
10	30.1	Transactivator, tegument protein
61	29.1	Transactivator, transrepressor
68	27.4	Glycoprotein (gE)
3	27.3
42	23.6
67	23.5	Glycoprotein (gl)
53	22.7
28	22.6	DNA polymerase
37	22.4	Glycoprotein (gH)
44	21.9
15	20.6
54	20.0
29	19.9	Single-stranded DNA-binding protein
51	17.9	Origin-binding protein
4	17.1	Transactivator, tegument protein
32	16.6	Phosphoprotein
41	15.3
13	15.2	Thymidylate synthetase
7	15.2
18	14.1	Ribonucleotide reductase, small subunit
59	13.4	Uracil-DNA glycosylase
26	13.3
27	12.8
22	12.5
60	11.4	Glycoprotein (gL)
65	10.8
31	10.7	Glycoprotein (gB)
43	10.7
21	10.1
36	9.9	Thymidine kinase
25	9.6
6	9.3
34	8.9
39	8.6
56	8.5
47	8.5	Protein kinase
30	8.5
19	8.4	Ribonucleotide reductase, large subunit
55	7.8
17	7.8
23	7.8
8	7.5	dUTPase
66	6.7	Protein kinase
35	6.6
40	6.6	Major nucleocapsid protein
45	6.3
12	6.0
52	5.9
16	5.7
46	5.7
5	4.8	Glycoprotein (gK)
14	nca	Glycoprotein (gC)

^aORF 14 was not cloned (nc).