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Characterization of an early gene coding for a highly basic 8.9K protein from the Orgyia pseudotsugata multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus

Xiaoning Wu

Agriculture Canada Research Station, 6660 N.W. Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1X2

A new gene of the baculovirus Orgyia pseudotsugata multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus (OpMNPV) has been identified that encodes a highly basic 8.9K protein. The gene called p8.9 is expressed as a 0.5 kb transcript by 1 h post-infection and initiates at an early gene motif. The promoter of the 0.5 kb transcript has two upstream elements, repeats I and II, which are similar to motifs previously characterized in the OpMNPV IE-2 gene and the Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus IE-N and PE38 genes. A second p8.9 transcript expressed from 8 to 72 h post-infection was shown to initiate 634 bp upstream from the early gene motif in a region that has no similarity to any previously described baculovirus promoter or initiation site. Transient assays utilizing a reporter gene have shown that the p8.9 early promoter is active in a Lymantria dispar (LD652Y) and Spodoptera frugipeda (Sf9) cell lines in the absence of other viral factors. In addition, it was also demonstrated that the p8.9 promoter is trans-activated by the OpMNPV IE-2 and p34 genes, but not by IE-1.

Present address: Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z3.

Received 3 March 1993; accepted 6 April 1993.

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