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Evolutionary plasticity of zoonotic porcine Deltacoronavirus (PDCoV): genetic characteristics and geographic distribution.
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BMC Veterinary Research . 12/22/2022, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p1-16. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The emergence and rapid spread of the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 have confirmed that animal coronaviruses represent a potential zoonotic source. Porcine deltacoronavirus is a worldwide evolving enteropathogen of swine, detected first in Hong Kong, China, before its global identification. Following the recent detection of PDCoV in humans, we attempted in this report to re-examine the status of PDCoV phylogenetic classification and evolutionary characteristics. A dataset of 166 complete PDCoV genomes was analyzed using the Maximum Likelihood method in IQ-TREE with the best-fitting model GTR + F + I + G4, revealing two major genogroups (GI and GII), with further seven and two sub-genogroups, (GI a-g) and (GII a-b), respectively. PDCoV strains collected in China exhibited the broadest genetic diversity, distributed in all subgenotypes. Thirty-one potential natural recombination events were identified, 19 of which occurred between China strains, and seven involved at least one China strain as a parental sequence. Importantly, we identified a human Haiti PDCoV strain as recombinant, alarming a possible future spillover that could become a critical threat to human health. The similarity and recombination analysis showed that PDCoV spike ORF is highly variable compared to ORFs encoding other structural proteins. Prediction of linear B cell epitopes of the spike glycoprotein and the 3D structural mapping of amino acid variations of two representative strains of GI and GII showed that the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of spike glycoprotein underwent a significant antigenic drift, suggesting its contribution in the genetic diversity and the wider spread of PDCoV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- *DELTACORONAVIRUS
*MAXIMUM likelihood statistics
*CYTOSKELETAL proteins
*B cells
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17466148
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- BMC Veterinary Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160936842
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-022-03554-4