Nucleotide sequence of the gp70 gene of murine retrovirus MCF 247.

AUTOR(ES)

Holland, C A

RESUMO

We determined the nucleotide sequence and predicted the amino acid sequence of the gp70 gene of MCF 247, a recombinant murine retrovirus isolated from an AKR mouse. Information specifying the first 286 amino acids of the protein was probably derived from the presumptive nonecotropic parent of MCF 247, whereas the C-terminal 154 amino acids were probably derived from the ecotropic parent Akv. The nonecotropic sequences at the amino terminus of MCF 247 show only 38% homology, at the amino acid level, to those of Akv. In contrast, these sequences are strikingly similar (99% homologous) to those reported for another MCF virus. Moloney MCF, which was isolated from a BALB/c mouse. Moloney MCF also has ecotropic-derived sequences encoding the C-terminal portion of its gp70 protein; however, the recombination event that introduced these sequences occurs 213 nucleotides further towards the C terminus of gp70 than it does in MCF 247.

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