The nucleotide sequence of a satellite RNA associated with strawberry latent ringspot virus.

The nucleotide sequence of a satellite RNA associated with a strawberry isolate (H) of strawberry latent ringspot nepovirus (SLRSV) was determined from cDNA copies and the 5' end sequence was deduced from directly sequenced virion RNA. At the 3' end a poly(A) sequence was identified. A long open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 331 amino acids (M(r) 36488) was determined. Sequence comparisons showed that SLRSV satellite RNA has no extensive homology with other sequences in the GenEmbl and Swiss-Prot databases.