Nucleic Acids Research, 1983, Vol. 11, No. 17 5941-5951
© 1983
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Amino acid sequence of human respiratory syncytial virus nucleocapsid protein
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20205, USA
Received June 15, 1983. Accepted August 3, 1983.
Amino acid sequence of the human respiratory syncytial (RS) virus nucleocapsid (NC) protein, deduced from the DNA sequence of a recombinant plasmid, is presented. The cDNA plasmid (pRSBll) has 1412 bp of RS viral NC sequence and lacks six nucleotides of the 5'end of mRNA. There is a single long open reading frame encoding 467 amino acids. This 51540 dal protein is rich in basic amino acids and has no homologies with other known viral capsid proteins.