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Ovine gammaherpesvirus-2 (OvHV-2) causes a lethal disease in cattle and some wild ruminants called malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), which affects the epithelial and lymphoid tissues of the respiratory and digestive tracts and has an important impact on the livestock industry. In this study, MCF was diagnosed in 18 of 427 cattle from different sites in Egypt by its typical clinical signs, found in all 18 animals: corneal opacity, fever, erosions in the buccal cavity, lymphadenitis, and purulent nasal discharge. All affected cattle had been reared in contact with clinically inconspicuous sheep. Of the 18 clinically ill cattle, 13 succumbed to the disease, resulting in estimated morbidity and case fatality rates of 4.2% and 72.2%, respectively. Five samples collected from the affected cattle were positive for OvHV-2 by real-time PCR and were used for sequencing of an 832-bp fragment of the ORF27/gp48 gene. The ORF27 nucleotide sequence of all Egyptian samples was identical, but distinct from viruses found in other parts of Africa and the Mediterranean.

目的研究棉铃虫核型多角体病毒泰国株ORF27蛋白的功能,阐释其在传代效应中可能发挥的分子机制。方法用PCR方法从棉铃虫核型多角体病毒泰国株基因组中扩增ORF27基因;使用ProtParam、TMpred、SignalP、ScanProsite等生物信息学软件分析其理化特性、亚细胞定位、信号肽、跨膜结构、功能位点等;并将其氨基端截短型基因进行原核表达。结果ORF27基因序列全长768 nt,编码255 aa,分子质量约29.5 ku。生物信息学软件预测其具有多个功能基序。截短型重组载体表达出分子质量约35 ku的外源蛋白,主要以包涵体形式存在。结论棉铃虫核型多角体病毒ORF27蛋白可能具有非常广泛的生物学活性,调控多种细胞信号传导通路,调节细胞凋亡和细胞周期,参与传代效应的发生。