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Volume 23, Number 9—September 2017
Dispatch

Determination of Ferret Enteric Coronavirus Genome in Laboratory Ferrets

Tian-Cheng LiComments to Author , Sayaka Yoshizaki, Michiyo Kataoka, Yen Hai Doan, Yasushi Ami, Yuriko Suzaki, Tomofumi Nakamura, Naokazu Takeda, and Takaji Wakita
Author affiliations: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (T.-C. Li, S. Yoshizaki, M. Kataoka, Y.H. Doan, Y. Ami, Y. Suzaki, T. Wakita); Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University, Kagawa, Japan (T. Nakamura); Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (N. Takeda)

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Table

Nucleotide positions of proteins of FrCoVs from analysis of complete virus genome and number of amino acids compared with MCoVs*

Proteins
 Nucleotide position
No. amino acids
FRCoV4370
 FRCoV063
 FRCoV4370
 FRCoV063
 MSU-2
 MSU-1
 No22
 WD1127
 WD1133
ORF1a 262–12228 262–12231 3,988 3,989 NA NA NA 4,018 4,006
ORF1a/b 262–20222 262–20225 6,653 6,554 NA NA NA 6,682 6,670
Spike 20215–24564 20218–24567 1,449 1,449 1,449 1,457 1,435 1,438 1,429
ORF3c 24585–25328 24585–25328 247 247 247 83 247 247 69
E 25297–25545 25297–25545 82 82 82 82 82 82 82
M 25560–26351 25560–26363 263 267 263 263 265 268 268
N 26368–27492 26380–27504 374 374 374 374 374 376 376
ORF7a NI NI NI NI NI 98 98
ORF3x 27501–27725 27514–27738 74 74 74 14 74 73 73
ORF7b 27664–28278 27677–28291 204 204 204 204 202 204 204

*E, envelope protein; FrCOV, ferret coronavirus; M, membrane protein; MCoV, mink coronavirus; N, nucleocapsid protein; NI, protein not identified; NA, sequence not available; ORF, open reading frame.

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