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. 1989 Oct 11;17(19):7581–7590. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.19.7581

Vaccinia virus encodes a thymidylate kinase gene: sequence and transcriptional mapping.

G L Smith 1, A de Carlos 1, Y S Chan 1
PMCID: PMC334868  PMID: 2552411

Abstract

The nucleotide sequence and deduced amino acid sequence of a vaccinia virus gene from the SalI F fragment are shown. The predicted polypeptide shares 42% amino acid identity over a 200 amino acid region with Saccharomyces cerevisiae thymidylate kinase (TmpK) and has low homology with herpes simplex virus deoxypyrimidine kinase. Northern blotting and S1 nuclease protection showed that the TmpK gene is transcribed early during infection and mapped the mRNA 5' end to immediately upstream of the second inframe ATG codon of the open reading frame (ORF). The encoded polypeptide is predicted to be 204 amino acids long (23.2 kD) and is almost colinear with yeast TmpK. Vaccinia virus possesses genes for TK and TmpK, separated by 57 kilobases of DNA, which are co-ordinately expressed and the encoded enzymes perform sequential steps in the same biochemical pathway.

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