Influenza virus strain A/PR/8/34(H1N1)acquired a high-yielding property after serial passages in fertilized eggsSix internal RNA segments of the high-yielding strain were sequenced from their cloned cDNAs and co...Influenza virus strain A/PR/8/34(H1N1)acquired a high-yielding property after serial passages in fertilized eggsSix internal RNA segments of the high-yielding strain were sequenced from their cloned cDNAs and compared with the corresponding original sequences in the prime A/PR/8/34(H1N1)strainNinety-three point mutations were found accumulated in six genes(PB2,PB1,PA,NP,M,and NS),which lead to 27 amino acid changesA significant low mutation frequency without amino acid change was observed in PA geneThe mutation frequency at the amino acid level was the highest(about 3%)in M2 proteinOur data suggest that the unequal distribution of mutations among different viral proteins may correlate with individual role of each protein in viral展开更多
Ubiquitous on earth,bacteriophages are the most abundant entities in every ecosystem,but human knowledge about them is still limited compared with that about other forms of organisms.To enrich human knowledge and prom...Ubiquitous on earth,bacteriophages are the most abundant entities in every ecosystem,but human knowledge about them is still limited compared with that about other forms of organisms.To enrich human knowledge and promote the utilization of bacteriophages,it is necessary to isolate and characterize as many as possible different bacteriophages.Here we describe the isolation of a T4-like bacteriophage IME08 and a rapid method for its genetic characterization.With this method we easily cloned a few random fragments of the bacteriophage genome.Sequence analysis of these random clones showed that bacteriophage IME08 shared the highest sequence similarity with T4-like Enterobacteria phage T4（94%identity）,JS98（95% identity）,JS10（95%identity） and RB14（94%identity） respectively,which suggested that IME08 belonged to T4-like bacteriophage genus.展开更多
文摘Influenza virus strain A/PR/8/34(H1N1)acquired a high-yielding property after serial passages in fertilized eggsSix internal RNA segments of the high-yielding strain were sequenced from their cloned cDNAs and compared with the corresponding original sequences in the prime A/PR/8/34(H1N1)strainNinety-three point mutations were found accumulated in six genes(PB2,PB1,PA,NP,M,and NS),which lead to 27 amino acid changesA significant low mutation frequency without amino acid change was observed in PA geneThe mutation frequency at the amino acid level was the highest(about 3%)in M2 proteinOur data suggest that the unequal distribution of mutations among different viral proteins may correlate with individual role of each protein in viral
文摘Ubiquitous on earth,bacteriophages are the most abundant entities in every ecosystem,but human knowledge about them is still limited compared with that about other forms of organisms.To enrich human knowledge and promote the utilization of bacteriophages,it is necessary to isolate and characterize as many as possible different bacteriophages.Here we describe the isolation of a T4-like bacteriophage IME08 and a rapid method for its genetic characterization.With this method we easily cloned a few random fragments of the bacteriophage genome.Sequence analysis of these random clones showed that bacteriophage IME08 shared the highest sequence similarity with T4-like Enterobacteria phage T4（94%identity）,JS98（95% identity）,JS10（95%identity） and RB14（94%identity） respectively,which suggested that IME08 belonged to T4-like bacteriophage genus.
