Extreme evolutionary stability of conserved non-protein coding element of baculovirus genome

Aim. To estimate a level of evolutionary stability of the baculovirus conserved non protein-coding element (CNE) playing an essential role in baculovirus pathogenesis. Methods. NCBI-BLAST was applied to identify the orthologous sequences in genomes of 50 alphabaculoviruses. The orthologous sequences...

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Published inBiopolimery i kletka Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 131 - 139
Main Authors Makarenko, V. E., Kikhno, I. M., Kashuba, V. I.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kiev Natsional'na Akademiya Nauk Ukrainy - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2016
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Evolution
Genomes
Proteins
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Summary:Aim. To estimate a level of evolutionary stability of the baculovirus conserved non protein-coding element (CNE) playing an essential role in baculovirus pathogenesis. Methods. NCBI-BLAST was applied to identify the orthologous sequences in genomes of 50 alphabaculoviruses. The orthologous sequences were aligned by using ClustalW software. Alistat tool was applied to obtain the pairwise percent identity ( %ID) matrix data. Results. An average pairwise ID value (73 %) calculated for the 1225-member sample was shown to be comparable with those of coding parts of the most conserved baculovirus genes polh and pif2 as well as with those of the polh and p18 promoter regions which are the most conserved representatives of a small group of the evolutionary stable promoter regions of the alphabaculovirus late genes. Conclusion. CNE is one of the most conserved elements of the alphabaculovirus genome.
ISSN:0233-7657
1993-6842
DOI:10.7124/bc.000916