Comparisons of nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of NSP4 genes of virulent and attenuated pairs of group A and C rotaviruses

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作者
Chang, KO [1 ]
Kim, YJ [1 ]
Saif, LJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Ohio State Univ, Ohio Agr Res & Dev Ctr, Food Anim Hlth Res Program, Dept Vet Prevent Med, Wooster, OH 44691 USA
关键词
rotavirus; virulent and attenuated; pathogenesis; NSP4; gene; nucleotide sequence;
D O I
10.1023/A:1008068218966
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Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The NSP4 protein of rotavirus is a nonstructural glycoprotein and has a crucial function in virus morphogenesis during infection of host cells. It was recently reported that NSP4 may also function as a viral enterotoxin in the induction of rotavirus diarrhea by causing Ca++ influx in the cytoplasm of the infected cells. We sequenced and analyzed two (Wa and M strains) pairs of NSP4 genes of virulent (v) and attenuated (a) (after 30 to 40 passages in cell culture) human group A rotaviruses and a pair of NSP4 genes of virulent and attenuated porcine group C rotavirus (Cowden strain). These strains were previously identified as virulent (induce diarrhea) or attenuated (no diarrhea) in a gnotobiotic pig model of rotavirus infection [Bohl et al. (4), Saif et al. (13), Ward et al. (17)]. The NSP4 genes of the Wa, M and Cowden strains were amplified with RT-PCR using a proof reading polymerase (Tli) and the RT-PCR product was sequenced directly. Analysis of the NSP4 deduced amino acid sequences showed that only 3 (Wa) and 2 (M and Cowden) amino acids differed between the virulent and attenuated strains. For the Wa strain, the changes from the virulent to attenuated strain were in amino acids 13 (V to A), 16 (L to S) and 34 (P to L); in the M strain, the difference was in amino acids 53 (T to I) and 104 (K to E), and in the Cowden strains, amino acids 50 (L to F) and 97 (D to N) differed between virulent and attenuated strains. To our knowledge, this is the first sequence comparison between NSP4 of a virulent and attenuated pair of group C rotaviruses. The potential impact of these few amino acid changes on the pathogenesis of the NSP4 protein for piglets is unclear, relative to previous findings in mice (1), but requires further study using purified recombinant NSP4 proteins or peptides.
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