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First detection of novel enterovirus G recombining a torovirus papain-like protease gene associated with diarrhoea in swine in South Korea.

ABSTRACT: Enterovirus species G (EV-G) comprises a highly diversity of 20 genotypes that is prevalent in pig populations, with or without diarrhoea. In the present study, a novel EV-G strain (KOR/KNU-1811/2018) that resulted from cross-order recombination was discovered in diagnostic faecal samples from neonatal pigs with diarrhoea that were negative for swine enteric coronaviruses and rotavirus. The recombinant EV-G genome possessed an exogenous 594-nucleotide (198-amino acid) sequence, flanked by two viral 3Cpro cleavage sites at the 5' and 3' ends in its 2C/3A junction region. This insertion encoded a predicted protease similar to the porcine torovirus papain-like cysteine protease (PLCP), which was recently found in the EV-G1, -G2, and -G17 genomes. The complete KNU-1811 genome shared 73.7% nucleotide identity with a prototype EV-G1 strain, but had 83.9%-86.7% sequence homology with the global EV-G1-PLCP strains. Genetic and phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that the Korean recombinant EV-G's own VP1 and inserted foreign PLCP genes are most closely related independently to contemporary chimeric G1-PLCP and G17-PLCP strains respectively. These results implied that the torovirus-derived PLCP gene might have undergone continuous nucleotide mutations in the respective EV-G genome following its independent acquisition through naturally occurring recombination. Our results advance the understanding of the genetic evolution of EV-G driven by infrequent viral recombination events, by which EV-G populations laterally gain an exotic gene encoding a virulence factor from heterogeneous virus families, thereby causing clinical disease in swine.

SUBMITTER: Lee S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7168547 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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First detection of novel enterovirus G recombining a torovirus papain-like protease gene associated with diarrhoea in swine in South Korea.

Lee Sunhee S Lee Changhee C

Transboundary and emerging diseases 20181201 2

Enterovirus species G (EV-G) comprises a highly diversity of 20 genotypes that is prevalent in pig populations, with or without diarrhoea. In the present study, a novel EV-G strain (KOR/KNU-1811/2018) that resulted from cross-order recombination was discovered in diagnostic faecal samples from neonatal pigs with diarrhoea that were negative for swine enteric coronaviruses and rotavirus. The recombinant EV-G genome possessed an exogenous 594-nucleotide (198-amino acid) sequence, flanked by two vi ...[more]

PMID: 30431236

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Project description:Enteroviruses (EVs) are implicated in a wide range of diseases in humans and animals. In this study, a novel enterovirus (enterovirus species G [EVG]) (EVG 08/NC_USA/2015) was isolated from a diagnostic sample from a neonatal pig diarrhea case and identified by using metagenomics and complete genome sequencing. The viral genome shares 75.4% nucleotide identity with a prototypic EVG strain (PEV9 UKG/410/73). Remarkably, a 582-nucleotide insertion, flanked by 3Cpro cleavage sites at the 5' and 3' ends, was found in the 2C/3A junction region of the viral genome. This insertion encodes a predicted protease with 54 to 68% amino acid identity to torovirus (ToV) papain-like protease (PLP) (ToV-PLP). Structural homology modeling predicts that this protease adopts a fold and a catalytic site characteristic of minimal PLP catalytic domains. This structure is similar to those of core catalytic domains of the foot-and-mouth disease virus leader protease and coronavirus PLPs, which act as deubiquitinating and deISGylating (interferon [IFN]-stimulated gene 15 [ISG15]-removing) enzymes on host cell substrates. Importantly, the recombinant ToV-PLP protein derived from this novel enterovirus also showed strong deubiquitination and deISGylation activities and demonstrated the ability to suppress IFN-β expression. Using reverse genetics, we generated a ToV-PLP knockout recombinant virus. Compared to the wild-type virus, the ToV-PLP knockout mutant virus showed impaired growth and induced higher expression levels of innate immune genes in infected cells. These results suggest that ToV-PLP functions as an innate immune antagonist; enterovirus G may therefore gain fitness through the acquisition of ToV-PLP from a recombination event.IMPORTANCE Enteroviruses comprise a highly diversified group of viruses. Genetic recombination has been considered a driving force for viral evolution; however, recombination between viruses from two different orders is a rare event. In this study, we identified a special case of cross-order recombination between enterovirus G (order Picornavirales) and torovirus (order Nidovirales). This naturally occurring recombination event may have broad implications for other picornaviral and/or nidoviral species. Importantly, we demonstrated that the exogenous ToV-PLP gene that was inserted into the EVG genome encodes a deubiquitinase/deISGylase and potentially suppresses host cellular innate immune responses. Our results provide insights into how a gain of function through genetic recombination, in particular cross-order recombination, may improve the ability of a virus to evade host immunity.

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First detection of novel enterovirus G recombining a torovirus papain-like protease gene associated with diarrhoea in swine in South Korea.

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First detection of novel enterovirus G recombining a torovirus papain-like protease gene associated with diarrhoea in swine in South Korea.

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