%0 Journal Article %A Takano, Jun-Ichiro %A Leon, Arlene %A Kato, Miyoko %A Abe, Yuko %A Fujimoto, Koji %T Isolation and DNA characterization of a simian retrovirus 5 from a Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata) %D 2013 %J Journal of General Virology, %V 94 %N 5 %P 955-959 %@ 1465-2099 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.047621-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X An SRV-like virus was isolated from a colony-born Japanese monkey. To identify this SRV-like virus, we designed universal primers at regions that were conserved among the reported SRV sequences in the 5′-LTR and the short ORF and we obtained plasmid clones containing the complete gag, prt, pol and env genes. The full-length sequences of the isolate were determined from the plasmids and by direct sequencing. Sequence comparisons and phylogenetic analyses indicated that this SRV-like virus had a sequence identical to the reported 626 bp of SRV-5. In this study, we isolated SRV5/JPN/2005/V1 from a Japanese monkey and characterized the full-length SRV-5 sequence. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/vir.0.047621-0