Identification of the avian infectious bronchitis coronaviruses with mutations in gene 3.

ABSTRACT: The sequence of a 6.0-kb fragment was compared in the 3'-encoding region of the genome in 27 infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) strains. All these strains have the same S-3-M-5-N gene order, as is the case for other IBVs. However, the sizes of the corresponding open reading frames (ORFs) of some genes varied among the virus strains. Phylogenetic analysis and sequence alignments demonstrated that recombination events had occurred in the origin and evolution of the strains CK/CH/LSD/03I and CK/CH/LLN/98I and the possible recombinant junction sites might be located at the 3c and M genes, respectively. The normal product of ORF 3a is 57 amino acids long, whereas a 43-bp deletion at the 3'-end of the CK/CH/LSD/03I 3a gene was detected, resulting in a frameshift event and C-terminally truncated p

SUBMITTER: Liu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7158841 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature