Sequence analysis of the nucleocapsid gene of measles virus isolates from South Africa identifies a new genotype

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1581-1587

  Kreis, Stephanie ^a   Vardas, Eftyhia ^a   Whistler, Toni ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 0030846363     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-7-1581     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Chomczynski, P. & Sacchi, N. (1987). Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction. Analytical Biochemistry 162, 156-159.
2. Department of Health South Africa (1995). Epidemiological Comments 22(9), 190-202.
3. Giraudon, P., Jacquier, M. F. & Wild, T. F. (1988). Antigenic analysis of African measles field isolates: identification and localization of one conserved and two variable epitope sites on the NP protein. Virus Research 10, 137-153.
4. Kobune, F., Sakata, H. & Sugiura, A. (1990). Marmoset lymphoblastoid cells as a sensitive host for isolation of measles virus. Journal of Virology 64, 700-705.
5. Kreis, S. & Whistler, T. (1997). Rapid identification of measles virus strains by the heteroduplex mobility assay. Virus Research (in press).
6. Lecouturier, V., Fayolle, J., Caballero, M., Carabaña, J., Celma, M. L., Fernandez-Muñoz, R., Wild, T. F. & Buckland, R. (1996). Identification of two amino acids in the hemagglutinin glycoprotein of measles virus (MV) that govern hemadsorption, HeLa cell fusion, and CD46 down-regulation: phenotypic markers that differentiate vaccine and wild-type MV strains. Journal of Virology 70, 4200-4204.
7. Osterhaus, A. D. M. E., De Vries, P. & Van Binnendijk, R. S. (1994). Measles vaccines: novel generations and new strategies. Journal of Infectious Diseases 170(Suppl. 1), S42-55.
8. Rima, B. K., Earle, J. A. P., Baczko, K., Rota, P. A. & Bellini, W. J. (1995a). Measles virus strain variation, pp. 65-83. In Measles Virus. Edited by V. ter Meulen & M. A. Billeter Berlin : Springer Verlag.
9. Rima, B. K., Earle, J. A. P., Yeo, R. P., Herlihy, L., Baczko, K., ter Meulen, V., Carabaña, J., Caballero, M., Celma, M. L. & Fernandez-Muñoz, R. (1995b). Temporal and geographical distribution of measles virus genotypes. Journal of General Virology 76, 1173-1180.
10. Rota, J. S., Wang, Z.-D., Rota, P. A. & Bellini, W. J. (1994). Comparison of sequences of the H, F, and N coding genes of measles virus vaccine strains. Virus Research 31, 317-330.
11. Rota, J. S., Heath, J. L., Rota, P. A., King, G. E., Celma, M. L., Carabaña, J., Fernandez-Muñoz, R., Brown, D., Jin, L. & Bellini, W. J. (1996). Molecular epidemiology of measles virus : identification of pathways of transmission and implications for measles elimination. Journal of Infectious Diseases 173, 32-37.
12. Rota, P. A., Bloom, A. E., Vanchieri, J. A. & Bellini, W. J. (1994). Evolution of the nucleoprotein and matrix genes of wild-type strains of measles virus isolated from recent epidemics. Virology 198, 724-730.
13. Rozenblatt, S., Eizenberg, O., Ben-Levy, R., Lavie, V. & Bellini, W. J. (1985). Sequence homology within the morbilliviruses. Journal of Virology 53, 684-690.
14. Taylor, M. J., Godfrey, E., Baczko, K., ter Meulen, V., Wild, T. F. & Rima, B. K. (1991). Identification of several different lineages of measles virus. Journal of General Virology 72, 83-88.
15. Thompson, J. D., Higgins, D. G. & Gibson, T. J. (1994). ClustalW: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Research 22, 4673-4680.