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Since virus-like particles have a characteristic electrophoretic behavior, this provides a simple means of assessing a mutant for acquisition of native protein structure.
#SSH, Suppression Subtractive Hybridization; MOS, Mirror Orientation Selection; PEVE, Planarian extrachromosomal virus-like element; Rep, replication initiator protein; ss, single-stranded; ds, double-stranded; superfamily 3, SF3; RT-PCR, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
It is present as a mid-level repeated element in its host insect genome (about 50 copies/genome) [ 19, 24], it encodes a set of proteins (gag, pol, env) with features similar to those of well-characterized retrovirus proteins [ 17] and it is capable of producing virus-like particles [ 25].
The ability of the coat mutants to assemble into virus-like particles was assessed by agarose gel electrophoresis and western blot [ 7].
Examination of PEVE genome organization and structure reveals that this virus-like element cannot be assigned to any known group of viruses or plasmids, and thus represents a novel type of viral element that encodes two helicases in one genome.