Analysis of JC virus DNA purified directly from human progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy brains.
AUTOR(ES)
Rentier-Delrue, F
RESUMO
Human polyomavirus JC DNA was purified directly from the diseased brain tissue of two patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) by a method employing differential salt precipitation (B. Hirt, J. Mol. Biol. 26:365-369, 1967). Each of the viral genomes (JC-NIH-1 and JC-NIH-2) was molecularly cloned intact in Escherichia coli, using pBR322, at their unique EcoRI (0.00 map unit) and BamHI (0.51 map unit) sites. The JC-NIH-1 genome was approximately 50 base pairs larger and the JC-NIH-2 genome was approximately 50 base pairs smaller than the prototype human polyomavirus JC (Mad-1) DNA. Analysis of the restriction endonuclease cleavage fragments of these two DNAs and the human polyomavirus JC (Mad-1) DNA revealed only slight differences which mapped in a region of the genome extending from 0.67 to 0.74 map unit. From previous homology studies, this region of variance corresponds to the noncoding region to the late side of the origin of DNA replication.
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