In-Depth Temporal Transcriptome Profiling of an Alphaherpesvirus Using Nanopore Sequencing.

ABSTRACT: In this work, a long-read sequencing (LRS) technique based on the Oxford Nanopore Technology MinION platform was used for quantifying and kinetic characterization of the poly(A) fraction of bovine alphaherpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) lytic transcriptome across a 12-h infection period. Amplification-based LRS techniques frequently generate artefactual transcription reads and are biased towards the production of shorter amplicons. To avoid these undesired effects, we applied direct cDNA sequencing, an amplification-free technique. Here, we show that a single promoter can produce multiple transcription start sites whose distribution patterns differ among the viral genes but are similar in the same gene at different timepoints. Our investigations revealed that the circ gene is expressed wit

SUBMITTER: Tombacz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9229804 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature