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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 13, Pages 5788-5795Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.13.5788-5795.2000
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- NIAID NIH HHS [1RO1AI/DK42545-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
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RNA polymerase complexes were purified from Cryptosporidium pan urn, a parasitic protozoan known to infect many species of mammals including humans. Western blot analysis revealed the association of the complexes with two different proteins, encoded by large and small segments of viral double-stranded RNAs, Each complex was found to contain only double-stranded RNA both double- and single-stranded RNA, or only single-stranded RNA. Maximum RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity was observed within the complexes containing both double- and single-stranded RNAs. These complexes possessed both transcriptise and replicase polymerase activities. Virus-like particles with a diameter of 31 nm were copurified with RNA polymerase complexes, and buoyant density and polymerase studies suggest that C, parvum harbors a putative double-stranded RNA virus which separately encapsidates the Large and small RNA segments. The mechanism of replication and other characteristics of this virus are similar to those of the viruses of the family Partitiviridae, previously identified only in fungi and plants.
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