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Relatedness and heterogeneity at the near-terminal end of the genome of a parapoxvirus bovis 1 strain (B177) compared with parapoxvirus ovis (Orf virus)

¹ Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Institute of Immunology, Paul-Ehrlich-Straße 28, D-72076 Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany
² Divison of Molecular Microbiology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

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Hanns-Joachim Rziha
achim.rziha{at}tue.bfav.de

The present study provides for the first time an extended investigation of individual genes located at the near-terminal right end of the genome of parapoxvirus bovis 1, Bovine papular stomatitis virus (BPSV) strain B177 and Orf virus (ORFV). Comparison of the respective DNA sequences of ORFV strain D1701 (9·9 kbp) and BPSV B177 (7·7 kbp) revealed a very similar organization of closely related genes transcribed in a rightward orientation. The most salient findings of this study were: (i) the absence of the ORFV-specific vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-E) gene in the BPSV isolate; (ii) the presence of an interleukin-10 (IL-10) orthologue; and (iii) the detection of three new genes encoding ankyrin-repeat-containing polypeptides. These results not only contribute to potential improvements of future molecular differentiation between the parapoxvirus species, but also shed new light on different pathobiologies among parapoxviruses.

The DNA sequences of D1701 (9979 nucleotides) and of B177 (7702 nucleotides) are deposited in GenBank under accession nos AY186732 and AY186733, respectively.

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