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The nucleotide sequence of a satellite RNA associated with arabis mosaic nepovirus

Liu, Yuan Yi, Hellen, C. U. T., Cooper, J. I., Bertioli, D. J., Coates, D., Bauer, G.

Journal of General Virology 1990; 71(6):1259 · https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-71-6-1259

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Abstract

The nucleotide sequence of a satellite RNA (satRNA) associated with a lilac isolate of arabis mosaic virus (ArMV) was determined from cDNA copies. The sequence was 1104 nucleotides in length excluding the poly(A) tail, contained a long open reading frame which encodes a polypeptide of 360 amino acids, with an Mr of 39K. Nucleotide sequence comparisons revealed that the ArMV-associated satRNA shared 83% nucleotide identity with a satRNA from grapevine fanleaf nepovirus, but no extensive sequence homology was observed with other nepoviral satRNAs.

† Present address: Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 117794-8621, U.S.A.