The Molecular Characteristics of mRNAs and mRNA6 cDNA of lnfectious bronchitis virus LX4 Isolated in China
Abstract: According to the published IBV gene sequence, a pair of specific primers were designed and synthesized. A fragment of 1.7kb including mRNAs and mRNA_6 cDNA of infectious bronchitis virus LX4 was amplified, cloned and sequenced. Then the nucleotide and the deduced amino acid sequence of this fragment were analyzed. The results showed that N gene of IBV LX4 sharedthe highest identity with SD/97/02 and HB that were both isolated in China. However, the identity is different in three conservative basic regions of N protein. The deduced amino acid sequence of LX4 shared the highest identity with M41,Beau, H52 and HB in position 66-88, with SD/97/02 strain in position 181-234 and with H120 and ZJ971 in position 334-373 respectively. Meanwhile, we found that LX4 and H120 showed completely identical in position 350-409 both in corresponding nucleotide and deduced amino acid. All these data above showed that mRNA_5 and mRNA_6 cDNA of IBV LX4 shared more characteristics with other isolates in China than the aboard. In a