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. 1987 Aug;61(8):2589–2598. doi: 10.1128/jvi.61.8.2589-2598.1987

Physical Analysis of the Campoletis sonorensis Virus Multipartite Genome and Identification of a Family of Tandemly Repeated Elements

David A Theilmann 1, Max D Summers 1,*
PMCID: PMC255707  PMID: 16789266

Abstract

This report is an analysis of cross-hybridizing sequences found within the 28 superhelical (SH) DNAs of the multipartite genome of the polydnavirus Campoletis sonorensis virus (CsV). A Southern cross-blot hybridization analysis showed that the majority of CsV EcoRI restriction fragments cross-hybridize to multiple EcoRI fragments. These sequence homologies were analyzed by hybridizing recombinant clones of the CsV SH DNAs B, H, M, and O1 to Southern blots of undigested CsV DNA, using different hybridization stringencies. The results indicated that homologous regions among the SH DNAs include closely related sequences that are detectable under stringent conditions and related but more diverged sequences which are only detectable under reduced stringencies. A sequence that hybridized to the majority of the CsV SH DNAs was identified and subcloned from the SH DNAs O1, H, and B. Nucleotide sequence data revealed that these homologous regions contained a family of imperfectly conserved repeated elements. These repeat elements were arranged singly or in direct tandem arrays and had an average length of 540 base pairs. Within the sequenced regions that contained the repeated elements six putative open reading frames were identified. These results show that the CsV genome consists of SH DNAs with complex sequence interrelationships that may have arisen due to multiple recombinational events.

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