| deduced amino acid sequence of the small hydrophobic protein of us avian pneumovirus has greater identity with that of human metapneumovirus than those of non-us avian pneumoviruses. | we report here the nucleotide and deduced amino acid (aa) sequences of the small hydrophobic (sh) gene of the avian pneumovirus strain colorado (apv/co). the sh gene of apv/co is 628 nucleotides in length from gene-start to gene-end. the longest orf of the sh gene encoded a protein of 177 aas in length. comparison of the deduced aa sequence of the sh protein of apv/co with the corresponding published sequences of other members of genera metapneumovirus showed 28% identity with the newly discover ... | 2003 | 12727346 |