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				Analysis of viral protein-2 encoding gene 
				of avian encephalomyelitis virus from field specimens in Central 
				Java region, Indonesia - 
				
				Aris Haryanto, Ratna Ermawati, Vera Wati, Sri Handayani 
				Irianingsih and Nastiti Wijayanti 
              
              Veterinary World, 9(1): 25-31   
              
   
                
                
doi: 
              
				
				10.14202/vetworld.2016.25-31 
                
				
				Aris Haryanto: 
				
				Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 
				Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; arisharyanto@yahoo.com 
				
				Ratna Ermawati: 
				
				Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 
				Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; ratna.ermawati@yahoo.com 
				
				Vera Wati: 
				
				Division of Biotechnology, Animal Disease Investigation Center 
				Wates, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province, 
				
				Indonesia; verawatisutopo@gmail.com 
				
				Sri Handayani Irianingsih: 
				
				Division of Virology, Animal Disease Investigation Center Wates, 
				Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province, 
				
				Indonesia; handa_nie@yahoo.com 
				
				Nastiti Wijayanti: 
				
				Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Universitas 
				Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; nastitiw@yahoo.com   
				
				Received: 05-08-2015, Revised: 25-11-2015, Accepted: 02-12-2015, 
				Published online: 12-01-2016 
				  
				
              	
              	Corresponding author:Aris Haryanto, e-mail: arisharyanto@yahoo.com, 
				arisharyanto@ugm.ac.id 
 
              Citation: Haryanto A, Ermawati R, Wati V, Irianingsih SH, Wijayanti N 
				(2016) Analysis of viral protein-2 encoding gene of avian 
				encephalomyelitis virus from field specimens in Central Java
				
				
				region, Indonesia, 
				
				Veterinary World 9(1): 
				25-31. 
 
              
				Abstract 
 
				
				
				Aim: 
				
				Avian encephalomyelitis (AE) is a viral disease which can infect 
				various types of poultry, especially chicken. In Indonesia, the 
				incidence of AE infection in chicken has been reported since 
				2009, the AE incidence tends to increase from year to year. The 
				objective of this study was to analyze viral protein 2 (VP-2) 
				encoding gene of AE virus (AEV) from various species of birds in 
				field specimen by reverse transcription polymerase chain 
				reaction (RT-PCR) amplification using specific nucleotides 
				primer for confirmation of AE diagnosis. 
				
				
				Materials and Methods: 
				
				A total of 13 AEV samples are isolated from various species of 
				poultry which are serologically diagnosed infected by AEV from 
				some areas in central Java, Indonesia. Research stage consists 
				of virus samples collection from field specimens, extraction of 
				AEV RNA, amplification of VP-2 protein encoding gene by RT-PCR, 
				separation of RT-PCR product by agarose gel electrophoresis, DNA 
				sequencing and data analysis. 
				
				
				Results: 
				
				Amplification products of the VP-2 encoding gene of AEV by 
				RT-PCR methods of various types of poultry from field specimens 
				showed a positive results on sample code 499/4/12 which 
				generated DNA fragment in the size of 619 bp. Sensitivity test 
				of RT-PCR amplification showed that the minimum concentration of 
				RNA template is 127.75 ng/μl. The multiple alignments of DNA 
				sequencing product indicated that positive sample with code 
				499/4/12 has 92% nucleotide homology compared with AEV with 
				accession number AV1775/07 and 85% nucleotide homology with 
				accession number ZCHP2/0912695 from Genbank database. Analysis 
				of VP-2 gene sequence showed that it found 46 nucleotides 
				difference between isolate 499/4/12 compared with accession 
				number AV1775/07 and 93 nucleotides different with accession 
				number ZCHP2/0912695. 
				
				
				Conclusions: 
				
				Analyses of the VP-2 encoding gene of AEV with RT-PCR method 
				from 13 samples from field specimen generated the DNA fragment 
				in the size of 619 bp from one sample with sample code 499/4/12. 
				The sensitivity rate of RT-PCR is to amplify the VP-2 gene of 
				AEV until 127.75 ng/μl of RNA template. Compared to Genbank 
				databases, isolate 499/4/12 has 85% and 92% nucleotide homology. 
				
				Keywords: 
				
				avian encephalomyelitis, reverse transcription polymerase chain 
				reaction, viral protein 2 gene. 
 
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