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ArticleJournal of virology2000

The ends on herpesvirus DNA replicative concatemers contain pac2 cis cleavage/packaging elements and their formation is controlled by terminal cis sequences.

M A McVoy, D E Nixon, J K Hur, S P Adler

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Article in Journal of virology, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M A McVoyDepartment of Pediatrics, Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0163, USA. mmcvoy@hsc.vcu.edu
D E Nixon
J K Hur
S P Adler
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center · US

Funding

HERPESVIRUS GENOMIC CLEAVAGEK08AI001435 · NIAID · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI NIXON, DANIEL E · 1997 to 2001
$249k
NIAID NIH HHS KO8AI01435
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herpesviruses have large double-stranded linear DNA genomes that are formed by site-specific cleavage from complex concatemeric intermediates. In this process, only one of the two genomic ends are formed on the concatemer. Although the mechanism underlying this asymmetry is not known, one explanation is that single genomes are cleaved off of concatemer ends in a preferred direction. This implies that cis elements control the direction of packaging. Two highly conserved cis elements named pac1 and pac2 lie near opposite ends of herpesvirus genomes and are important for cleavage and packaging. By comparison of published reports and by analysis of two additional herpesviruses, we found that pac2 elements lie near the ends formed on replicative concatemers of four herpesviruses: herpes simplex virus type 1, equine herpesvirus 1, guinea pig cytomegalovirus, and murine cytomegalovirus. Formation of pac2 ends on concatemers depended on terminal cis sequences, since ectopic cleavage sites engineered into the murine cytomegalovirus genome mediated formation of pac2 ends on concatemers regardless of the orientation of their insertion. These findings are consistent with a model in which pac2 elements at concatemer ends impart a directionality to concatemer packaging by binding proteins that initiate insertion of concatemer ends into empty capsids.

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DNA ReplicationGenome, Viral3T3 CellsAnimalsBase SequenceCells, CulturedCytomegalovirusDNA, ViralGuinea PigsMiceMolecular Sequence DataMuromegalovirusRestriction MappingVirus ReplicationDNA, Viral

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PMID10627574
PMCPMC111498
OpenAlexW2144899483

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