Inverted repeat regions of Marek's disease virus DNA possess a structure similar to that of the a sequence of herpes simplex virus DNA and contain host cell telomere sequences.
AUTOR(ES)
Kishi, M
RESUMO
The genomic structure of Marek's disease virus (MDV) is similar to those of the alphaherpesviruses herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 and 2. Sequence analysis of the junction region between the long component (L) and the short component (S) revealed the existence of an a-like sequence, similar in structure to the a sequence of HSV-1. Further study revealed that the MDV genome contains five copies of the a-like sequence within the long terminal repeat region as well as in the short terminal repeat region. The junction between the L and S components was found to contain 10 copies of the a-like sequence. Within the a-like sequence, a structure homologous to the DR2 of HSV was found to contain 17 copies of the telomeric sequence, GGGGTTA. There appears to be little to no sequence homology between the HSV a sequence and the MDV a-like sequence; however, the strong physical homology to its counterpart in HSV-1 suggests that the MDV a-like sequence may have the same functional homology (the domain for cleavage/packaging of the DNA into the viral capsids and for genomic inversion) as well.
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