Results for the analysis of the coding potential of pX region ORFs in various strains of HTLV-1/STLV-1.

All predictions are based on sites aligning to the annotated sites of interest in the reference sequence (AF033817); alternative sites for splicing or translation initiation were not considered in this analysis. The three dashes represent missing information for ATG initiation sites. The two dashes represent missing information for the splicing donor/acceptor sites. The consensus splice site used is (GT==AG), where “GT” refers to the splice donor site and “AG” refers to the splice acceptor site for each intron in the gene of interest. For example, the consensus splice sites for the Tax gene (which has three exons and two introns) in the AF033817 reference genome are GT==AG (Tax Intron 1) and GT==AG (Tax Intron 2). These results are summarized in Fig 2 and S4 Fig. (XLSX)