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  • Title: Association of mitochondria DNA with viral DNA in purified preparations of poxviruses.
    Author: Obom KM, Hoyos B, Pogo BG.
    Journal: Virus Res; 1988 Sep; 11(2):165-74. PubMed ID: 2849254.
    Abstract:
    The presence of cellular material in purified preparations of Shope fibroma virus (SFV) and two orthopoxviruses (vaccinia and Indiana), was investigated. Mitochondria were observed in purified preparations of SFV by electron microscopy and mitochondrial (mt) DNA was identified in restricted viral DNA by Southern blot hybridization with cloned mouse mt DNA. Mitochondrial DNA was also detected in vaccinia and SFV DNAs extracted from purified virions treated with DNase I followed by core isolation. The viral and mt DNAs could be separated on the basis of their size by agarose gel electrophoresis, but not by their buoyant density by centrifugation in cesium chloride gradients. These findings led us to re-examine previously reported results showing some homology between SFV, a leporipoxvirus and Indiana, an Orthopoxvirus (Berkowitz and Pogo, Virology 142, 437-440, 1985) using cloned fragments of SFV DNA instead of the entire viral DNA. The results indicated that cross-hybridization between SFV and Indiana DNAs was due in part to mt DNA but they also revealed an unrecognized region of homology between the two poxvirus genera.
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