Sequence of a cDNA carrying the glycoprotein gene and part of the matrix protein M2 gene of viral haemorrhagic scepticaemia virus, a fish rhabdovirus

A cDNA clone encoding for the glycoprotein of the viral haemorrhagic scepticaemia virus, a fish rhabdovirus, has been sequenced. The cDNA was 2035 bp long and contained two open reading frames (ORF). A 1523 bp ORF corresponded to the glycoprotein and was adjacent, on its 5' side, to an incomplete 372 bp ORF. Although the protein encoded by this ORF displayed no similarity with other rhabdovirus proteins, it was supposed that the cDNA had been reverse-transcribed from a readthrough mRNA encoding successively for the M2 and the G proteins.