The influenza virus haemagglutinin gene: cloning and characterisation of a double-stranded DNA copy.

AUTOR(ES)

Sleigh, M J

RESUMO

A protocol has been developed for the synthesis of a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) copy of the influenza virus RNA genome segment which codes for the major surface antigen, haemagglutinin (HA). This dsDNA copy was inserted, after digestion with S1 nuclease and poly (dC) tailing with terminal transferase, into poly(dG)-tailed, PstI-cut, pBR322 DNA, and used to transform E. coli RR1. Tetracycline-resistant bacterial colonies were screened for the presence of plasmid containing the copied HA gene by testing their ability to hybridise to a specific, 32P-labelled, single-stranded DNA probe. Four cloned hybrid plasmids, containing DNA complementary to the HA gene of the influenza strain 29C (a laboratory derivative of influenza A/NT/60/68 (1)) were analysed by restriction enzyme mapping. Each contained a dsDNA insert equivalent to a full length copy of the HA gene. The nucleotide sequence of a selected restriction fragment from the DNA inserted in one of these cloned plasmids (C89) was determined. The amino acid sequence deduced from these data agreed with the amino acid sequence determined for the corresponding region of HA from the influenza strain A/Mem/102/72, another member of the Hong Kong subtype, identifying the inserted dsDNA of C89 as an authentic copy of the influenza HA gene.

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