The Bocavirus bovine parvovirus generated a single pre-mRNA from a promoter at its left-hand end; however, the pattern of its alternative polyadenylation and splicing was different from that of other parvoviruses. A large left-hand-end open reading frame (ORF) encoded a nonstructural protein of approximately 95 kDa. An abundant, spliced, internally polyadenylated transcript encoded the viral NP1 protein from an ORF in the center of the genome. Transcripts encoding the capsid proteins were polyadenylated in the right-hand terminal palindrome. This is the first published transcription map of a member of the Bocavirus genus of the Parvovirinae.The genus Bocavirus is one of five genera of the subfamily Parvovirinae of the family Parvoviridae (35). The currently recognized members of the Bocavirus genus include bovine parvovirus type 1 (BPV) (1), canine minute virus (32), and the recently identified human bocavirus (HBoV) (4). HBoV, first detected in pooled human samples of lower respiratory tract infections collected by PCR amplification in Sweden (4), has been reported to be associated with acute respiratory illness at incidence rates of between 1.5% and 11.3% worldwide (3, 5, 6, 11-13, 15, 19, 22-24, 34). Isolation of HBoV has not yet been reported.A transcription map of any Bocavirus species based on a nonbiased direct analysis of steady-state RNA has not yet been formally presented. In this report, we describe the transcription map of BPV following infection of permissive bovine turbinate (BT) cells as determined by RNase protection and Northern blotting assays. Like members of the genera Erythrovirus and Amdovirus of the Parvovirinae, the Bocavirus BPV has a single promoter at its left-hand end and uses both an internal and distal polyadenylation site. However, the alternative RNA processing strategy used by BPV generates a transcription profile that is different from that of other characterized parvoviruses.Sequencing of BPV and construction of a nearly full-length BPV clone. Because a previously constructed infectious clone of BPV (33) was no longer available, we recloned the majority of the BPV genome, using a PCR-based strategy, directly from plaque-purified BPV (the prototype Abinanti strain) (1), utilizing the published BPV sequence (GenBank accession no. NC_001540) to design primers. The revised sequence of BPV was deposited in GenBank, and all the nucleotide numbers in the manuscript refer to this revised sequence, unless otherwise specified. This nearly full-length clone, containing the revised BPV sequence (nucleotide [nt] 42 to 5515) in the pBluescript vector (Stratagene), was designated pSK42BPV. This clone was not infectious (data not shown).Our revised BPV sequence showed a number of silent mutations which differed from that of the sequence deposited previously, and these differences may reflect natural variations among isolates. However, in addition, we detected two more significant changes within the NS1 coding region which allowed the opening of the long NS open reading frame 1 (ORF 1) from n...