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. 1984 Dec 20;3(13):3231–3237. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1984.tb02283.x

Comparison of the entire genomes of bovine leukemia virus and human T-cell leukemia virus and characterization of their unidentified open reading frames.

N Sagata, T Yasunaga, K Ohishi, J Tsuzuku-Kawamura, M Onuma, Y Ikawa
PMCID: PMC557842  PMID: 6098469

Abstract

We have compared the sequence of the entire genomes of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I). Both the gag and pol genes show overall strong homologies indicating the close evolutionary relationship of the two retroviruses. However, a surface glycoprotein portion of the env gene shows no appreciable homology, which probably reflects a difference in their host ranges. The 3' end portion of the BLV genome (designated as pXBL) contains an unidentified long open reading frame that has a typical protein-coding property. The potential product of this open reading frame may be a glycoprotein of approximately 40 000 daltons. We note that its amino acid sequence shows low but appreciable homology, especially in its N-terminal quarter, to that of the HTLV-I counterpart (pX product), and we thus suggest that BLV pXBL and HTLV-I pX have diverged from a common ancestral gene. It is tentatively concluded that both the putative pXBL and pX products are respectively produced from a spliced mRNA.

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