Putative Gene Promoter Sequences in the Chlorella Viruses

Authors

Lisa A. Fitzgerald, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Philip Boucher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Giane Yanai-Balser, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Karsten Suhre, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
Michael Graves, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA
James L. Van Etten, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

10-25-2008

Comments

Published in Virology 380:2 (October 25, 2008), pp. 388-393; doi 10.1016/j.virol.2008.07.025 Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. Used by permission. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00426822

Abstract

Three short (7 to 9 nucleotides) highly conserved nucleotide sequences were identified in the putative promoter regions (150 bp upstream and 50 bp downstream of the ATG translation start site) of three members of the genus Chlorovirus, family Phycodnaviridae. Most of these sequences occurred in similar locations within the defined promoter regions. The sequence and location of the motifs were often conserved among homologous ORFs within the Chlorovirus family. One of these conserved sequences (AATGACA) is predominately associated with genes expressed early in virus replication.