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The efficiency of bacteriophages CP-54 and CP-55 plating on Bacillus thuringiensis var. kumantoensis H18 (Kum) is decreased about 10-fold as compared with the efficiency of plating on Bacillus thuringiensis var. galleriae H5 (Gal). Bacteriophages having propagated for one cycle in Kum cells might be further grown in this strain without growth restriction. Two site-specific restriction enzymes isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis var. kumantoensis were designated BtkI and BtkII. The endonuclease BtkI recognises the same nucleotide sequence CGCG in DNA as recognised by the restriction endonuclease FnuDII; BtkII recognises the same nucleotide sequence GATC as the endonuclease Sau3A.
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PMID:[Site-specific restrictases from Bacillus thuringiensis var. Kumantoensis]. 132 Jan 99

We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the intracisternal A-particle gene, IAP-H18, cloned from the normal Syrian hamster liver DNA. IAP-H18 was 7,951 base pairs in length with two identical long terminal repeats of 376 base pairs at both ends. On the coding strand, imperfect open reading frames corresponding to gag and pol of the retrovirus genome were observed, whereas many stop codons were present in the region corresponding to env. The putative H18 gag gene (809 amino acids) had a sequence homologous to the N-terminal half of the mouse mammary tumor virus gag gene and locally to the Rous sarcoma virus gag gene. The putative H18 pol gene (900 residues) was homologous to the Rous sarcoma virus pol gene almost throughout the entire region. Two conserved regions among the retrovirus pol genes have been reported. One presumably corresponds to the DNA polymerase and the RNase H domain, and the other corresponds to the DNA endonuclease domain of the multifunctional protein pol. By the comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of the putative endonuclease domain of six representative oncovirus genomes, a phylogenetic tree of the oncovirus genomes was constructed, and the intracisternal A-particle (type A) genome was found to be more closely related to the mouse mammary tumor virus (type B) and squirrel monkey retrovirus (type D) genomes.
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PMID:Nucleotide sequence of the Syrian hamster intracisternal A-particle gene: close evolutionary relationship of type A particle gene to types B and D oncovirus genes. 299 63

An anomalous sequence in certain lentiviruses was found to be related to a region in a completely different part of the simian retrovirus type I (SRV-I) and its close relative, the hamster intracisternal A particle (IAP-H18). The segment is not present in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is also a lentivirus, nor is it found in any one of a dozen other retroviruses whose sequences have been reported. These observations imply that a horizontal transfer of newly acquired genetic information has taken place between an SRV-I-type virus and one of the lentivirus type, and that this event occurred more recently than did the divergence of members of this latter group and HIV. Comparison of the viral nucleic acid sequences that encode these segments revealed the presence of imperfect direct nucleotide repeats resembling the retroviral endonuclease cleavage sites at the 5' and 3' ends of these regions.
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PMID:Relocation of a protease-like gene segment between two retroviruses. 310 74