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The sequence and genomic organization of a GB virus A variant isolated from captive tamarins. Free

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Recently, gene fragments of several novel variants of GB virus A were isolated from the serum of distinct monkey species that had not been experimentally inoculated with an infectious agent. These variants appeared to be species-specific in that sequences isolated within a species were virtually identical, though sequences were strikingly different when compared between each species. In the present study, the nucleotide sequence of one of these variants, GBV-A, was extended to neargenome length. Similar to the other GB viruses, GBV-A appears to encode a single large polyprotein of 2967 amino acids that is post-trans-lationally cleaved by cellular and viral proteases into the individual viral proteins. The structural proteins are found at the N-terminal end of the polyprotein, while the nonstructural proteins are found at the C teminus. Amino acid sequence comparisons of the large polyprotein demonstrate that GBV-A is 74% identical to GBV-A and 48% identical to GBV-C, sharing only marginal identity with GBV-B and HCV-1 at 27%. Examination of the GBV-A polyprotein reveals that structural motifs are conserved for a protease, a helicase and a replicase. Phylogenetic analysis of the polyprotein confirms previous results that GBV-A is a member of the , distinct from GBV-B and HCV, though more closely related to GBV-A and GBV-C.

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The sequence and genomic organization of a GB virus A variant isolated from captive tamarins.
J. Gen. Virol. 78, 2307 (1997); https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-78-9-2307
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