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MERS coronaviruses from camels in Africa exhibit region-dependent genetic diversity.


ABSTRACT: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes a zoonotic respiratory disease of global public health concern, and dromedary camels are the only proven source of zoonotic infection. Although MERS-CoV infection is ubiquitous in dromedaries across Africa as well as in the Arabian Peninsula, zoonotic disease appears confined to the Arabian Peninsula. MERS-CoVs from Africa have hitherto been poorly studied. We genetically and phenotypically characterized MERS-CoV from dromedaries sampled in Morocco, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. Viruses from Africa (clade C) are phylogenetically distinct from contemporary viruses from the Arabian Peninsula (clades A and B) but remain antigenically similar in microneutralization tests. Viruses from West (Nigeria, Burkina Faso) and North (Morocco) Africa form a subclade, C1, that shares clade-defining genetic signatures including deletions in the accessory gene ORF4b Compared with human and camel MERS-CoV from Saudi Arabia, virus isolates from Burkina Faso (BF785) and Nigeria (Nig1657) had lower virus replication competence in Calu-3 cells and in ex vivo cultures of human bronchus and lung. BF785 replicated to lower titer in lungs of human DPP4-transduced mice. A reverse genetics-derived recombinant MERS-CoV (EMC) lacking ORF4b elicited higher type I and III IFN responses than the isogenic EMC virus in Calu-3 cells. However, ORF4b deletions may not be the major determinant of the reduced replication competence of BF785 and Nig1657. Genetic and phenotypic differences in West African viruses may be relevant to zoonotic potential. There is an urgent need for studies of MERS-CoV at the animal-human interface.

SUBMITTER: Chu DKW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5866576 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MERS coronaviruses from camels in Africa exhibit region-dependent genetic diversity.

Chu Daniel K W DKW   Hui Kenrie P Y KPY   Perera Ranawaka A P M RAPM   Miguel Eve E   Niemeyer Daniela D   Zhao Jincun J   Channappanavar Rudragouda R   Dudas Gytis G   Oladipo Jamiu O JO   Traoré Amadou A   Fassi-Fihri Ouafaa O   Ali Abraham A   Demissié Getnet F GF   Muth Doreen D   Chan Michael C W MCW   Nicholls John M JM   Meyerholz David K DK   Kuranga Sulyman A SA   Mamo Gezahegne G   Zhou Ziqi Z   So Ray T Y RTY   Hemida Maged G MG   Webby Richard J RJ   Roger Francois F   Rambaut Andrew A   Poon Leo L M LLM   Perlman Stanley S   Drosten Christian C   Chevalier Veronique V   Peiris Malik M  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180305 12


Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes a zoonotic respiratory disease of global public health concern, and dromedary camels are the only proven source of zoonotic infection. Although MERS-CoV infection is ubiquitous in dromedaries across Africa as well as in the Arabian Peninsula, zoonotic disease appears confined to the Arabian Peninsula. MERS-CoVs from Africa have hitherto been poorly studied. We genetically and phenotypically characterized MERS-CoV from dromedaries sam  ...[more]

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