| Literature DB >> 8830500 |
S Mounir1, H Mardassi, S Dea.
Abstract
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) causes abortions and respiratory diseases in pigs. The PRRSV genome is a positive-sense polyadenylated RNA molecule of about 15 kb. Along with the genes for structural proteins (envelope, matrix and nucleocapsid proteins) PRRSV genome contains a number of ORFs potentially encoding nonstructural proteins (ns). To investigate the nature of the PRRSV ORFs 7, 5 and 4 products, we have cloned the envelope (ORF5) nucleocapsid (ORF7) and ns4 (ORF4) protein genes in the bacterial expression vector pMAL(TM)-c2 under control of the "tac" promoter and expressed the proteins in E. coli. The recombinant proteins were recognized by porcine and rabbit hyperimmune serums to PRRSV, suggesting their structural nature.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 8830500 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1899-0_51
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Exp Med Biol ISSN: 0065-2598 Impact factor: 2.622