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Simian T cell leukemia virus type I from naturally infected feral monkeys from central and west Africa encodes a 91-amino acid p12 (ORF-I) protein as opposed to a 99-amino acid protein encoded by HTLV type I from humans.
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 20 Mar 1997
Saksena N K, Srinivasan A, Ge Y C, Xiang S H, Azad A, Bolton W, Herve V, Reddy S, Diop O, Miranda-Saksena M, Rawlinson W D, Vandamme A M, Barre-Sinoussi F
Abstract excerpt
A single protein of 12 kDa, p12 is encoded by the HTLV-I genome from both the singly spliced mRNA pX-ORF-I and doubly spliced mRNA pX-rex-ORF-I. While many full-length sequences of HTLV-1 are known, data on the p12 regions of African STLV-I are unavailable. We have undertaken to sequence the p12 gene in STLV-I from Central and West Africa naturally infected primates, and have compared them to known p12 sequences...
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