Article
Size variation within the second hypervariable region of the surface envelope gene of the bovine lentivirus BIV in experimentally and naturally infected cattle.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 1997
Suarez D L, Whetstone C A
Abstract excerpt
The bovine lentivirus also known as the bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (BIV) has conserved and hypervariable regions in the surface envelope (SU) gene. Size variation between isolates can be as large as 200 bp, mostly occurring in the second hypervariable (V2) gene region of the SU gene. The V2 region was cloned and sequenced from both experimentally and naturally infected cattle. Temporal evaluation of...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cattle
- DNA, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Immunodeficiency Virus, Bovine
- Lentivirus Infections
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Viral Envelope Proteins
