Complete Genome Sequence of Feline Leukemia Virus Kawakami-Theilen Strain KT-FeLV-UCD-1

Pei-Ju Chin; Fabio La Neve; Valeria Zanda; Arifa S Khan

doi:10.1128/MRA.00233-20

Complete Genome Sequence of Feline Leukemia Virus Kawakami-Theilen Strain KT-FeLV-UCD-1

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 May 14;9(20):e00233-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00233-20.

Authors

Pei-Ju Chin¹, Fabio La Neve², Valeria Zanda², Arifa S Khan³

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Retroviruses, Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
² Istituto di Ricerche Biomediche A. Marxer, Merck, Colleretto Giacosa, Italy.
³ Laboratory of Retroviruses, Division of Viral Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA [email protected].

Abstract

This full-length genome sequence of a feline leukemia virus Kawakami-Theilen strain (designated KT-FeLV-UCD-1), produced from the chronically infected FL74-UCD-1 cell line, was obtained using high-throughput sequencing. It consisted of 8,464 bp and had a genomic organization similar to that of other gammaretroviruses, containing long terminal repeats and open reading frames for Gag, Pol, and Env.