Table 5.

Gp3 proteins from arteriviruses contain at least one glycosylation site near the signal peptide, which is predicted to be cleaved by bioinformatic analyses.

N-terminal Gp3 sequences from various arteriviruses. Glycosylation sequons are in bold, the signal peptide is underlined and a gap in the sequence indicates the most probable cleavage site as predicted with SignalP (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/). Shaded in grey is the predicted, but unused, N-terminal myristoylation site (GXXXS) present in Gp3 of EAV (see text). Accession numbers: EAV (Bucyrus strain): P28993, VR-2332: AAD12127, Lelystad: Q04567, SHFV: AAB63392, LDV: NP_042575.