Jiang Yunquan, Inman Melissa, Zhang Yange, Posadas Nuria Alemañ, Jones Clinton
Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0905, Spain.
J Virol. 2004 Mar;78(6):3184-9. doi: 10.1128/jvi.78.6.3184-3189.2004.
The latency-related (LR) gene of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) is abundantly expressed during latency. A mutant BHV-1 strain that contains three stop codons at the 5' terminus of the LR gene (LR mutant) does not reactivate from latency. This study demonstrates that the LR mutant does not express open reading frame 2 or an adjacent reading frame that lacks an initiating ATG (reading frame C). Since the LR mutant and wild-type BHV-1 express similar levels of LR RNA, we conclude that LR protein expression plays an important role in regulating the latency reactivation cycle in cattle.
牛疱疹病毒1型(BHV-1)的潜伏期相关(LR)基因在潜伏期间大量表达。一种在LR基因5'末端含有三个终止密码子的BHV-1突变株(LR突变体)不会从潜伏状态重新激活。本研究表明,LR突变体不表达开放阅读框2或缺乏起始ATG的相邻阅读框(阅读框C)。由于LR突变体和野生型BHV-1表达相似水平的LR RNA,我们得出结论,LR蛋白表达在调节牛的潜伏再激活周期中起重要作用。