[Physicochemical properties of the RNA and proteins of an influenza virus H1N3 isolated from an ill child and antigenically analogous to A/whale/TO/19/76].

A comparative analysis of RNA and proteins of influenza A/Baku/799/82, A/whale/TO/19/76, and A/PR8/34 viruses was carried out. The viruses were shown to be similar in their polypeptide composition and oligopeptide maps of the heavy (HA1) and light (HA2) chains of hemagglutinin; in their migration properties of RNA fragments in polyacrylamide gel the A/Baku/799/82 and A/whale/TO/19/76 viruses were similar but not identical. Marked differences in the electrophoretic mobility in gel of RNA fragments coding for P proteins, HA, NP, and NA polypeptides were demonstrated. All these fragments of A/whale/TO/19/76 virus had higher electrophoretic mobility in gel. RNA fragments coding for M and NS proteins had a similar electrophoretic mobility. The A/Baku/799/82 and A/whale/TO/19/76 viruses differed considerably in migration properties of the RNA fragment coding for neuraminidase from the epidemic A/PR8/34 virus. In the latter, this fragment had a higher electrophoretic mobility in gel. Experiments of RNA-RNA hybridization demonstrated a high degree of homology of the primary structure of all RNA fragments of A/Baku/799/82 and A/whale/TO/19/76 viruses.