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Organization of the thymidylate synthase gene of herpesvirus saimiri

W Bodemer et al. J Virol. 1986 Oct.

Abstract

Herpesvirus saimiri codes, unlike most other herpesviruses, for a thymidylate synthase (TS). The TS gene of herpesvirus saimiri is unusual in structure and regulation of expression. It is transcribed into a nonspliced mRNA of 2,190 nucleotides. The single open reading frame of the viral TS gene, instructing a polypeptide of 33.5 kilodaltons, has extensive sequence homology with the corresponding TS coding sequences of human cells and of various procaryotes; the putative polypeptide derived from the nucleotide sequence of the herpesvirus saimiri TS gene is 70% identical with the human enzyme. The untranslated regions of the herpesvirus saimiri TS gene do not share homology with the other characterized eucaryotic or bacterial TS genes. The 5' untranslated sequence has 22 ATG triplets shortly followed by stop codons. The herpesvirus saimiri TS gene, which may be weakly transcribed during immediate early and early times of virus replication, is maximally expressed at the late phase. Various parameters suggest that the TS gene has been acquired in virus evolution by an ancestral herpesvirus from the cellular genome.

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