Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids

BACKGROUND: Sequences homologous to the gypsy retroelement from Drosophila melanogaster are widely distributed among drosophilids. The structure of gypsy includes an open reading frame resembling the retroviral gene env, which is responsible for the infectious properties of retroviruses. RESULTS: In...

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Autores principales: Llorens, Jose V, Clark, Jonathan B, Martínez-Garay, Isabel, Soriano, Sirena, de Frutos, Rosa, Martínez-Sebastián, María J
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18976468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-302
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author Llorens, Jose V
Clark, Jonathan B
Martínez-Garay, Isabel
Soriano, Sirena
de Frutos, Rosa
Martínez-Sebastián, María J
author_facet Llorens, Jose V
Clark, Jonathan B
Martínez-Garay, Isabel
Soriano, Sirena
de Frutos, Rosa
Martínez-Sebastián, María J
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description BACKGROUND: Sequences homologous to the gypsy retroelement from Drosophila melanogaster are widely distributed among drosophilids. The structure of gypsy includes an open reading frame resembling the retroviral gene env, which is responsible for the infectious properties of retroviruses. RESULTS: In this study we report molecular and phylogeny analysis of the complete env gene from ten species of the obscura group of the genus Drosophila and one species from the genus Scaptomyza. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that in most cases env sequences could produce a functional Env protein and therefore maintain the infectious capability of gypsy in these species.
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spelling pubmed-25855832008-11-21 Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids Llorens, Jose V Clark, Jonathan B Martínez-Garay, Isabel Soriano, Sirena de Frutos, Rosa Martínez-Sebastián, María J BMC Evol Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: Sequences homologous to the gypsy retroelement from Drosophila melanogaster are widely distributed among drosophilids. The structure of gypsy includes an open reading frame resembling the retroviral gene env, which is responsible for the infectious properties of retroviruses. RESULTS: In this study we report molecular and phylogeny analysis of the complete env gene from ten species of the obscura group of the genus Drosophila and one species from the genus Scaptomyza. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that in most cases env sequences could produce a functional Env protein and therefore maintain the infectious capability of gypsy in these species. BioMed Central 2008-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2585583/ /pubmed/18976468 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-302 Text en Copyright ©2008 Llorens et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Llorens, Jose V
Clark, Jonathan B
Martínez-Garay, Isabel
Soriano, Sirena
de Frutos, Rosa
Martínez-Sebastián, María J
Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
title Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
title_full Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
title_fullStr Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
title_full_unstemmed Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
title_short Gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of Drosophilids
title_sort gypsy endogenous retrovirus maintains potential infectivity in several species of drosophilids
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18976468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-302
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