Two families of sequences in the small RNA-encoding region of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) correlate with EBV types A and B.
AUTOR(ES)
Arrand, J R
RESUMO
DNA sequence analysis was carried out on the 1-kilobase SacI-EcoRI region of the EcoRI J fragment of four strains of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) (MABA, P3HR-1, FF41, and NPC-5), and the sequences were compared with the prototype sequence from strain B95-8. Ten single-base changes which grouped the strains into two families (1 and 2) were found. Restriction endonuclease polymorphisms predicted from the sequences were used to classify the EBV DNA from a further 26 EBV-positive cell lines into these two families. The EBNA-2 types (A or B) of the strains were found to correlate with the J region type; EBNA-2 type A DNA regularly contained J region sequence type 1, while EBNA-2 type B DNA generally carried J region sequence type 2. These data are consistent with the notion of there being two distinct families of EBV with discrete, conserved differences in DNA sequence.
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