Full-length open reading frame of a recombinant hepatitis C virus strain from St Petersburg: proposed mechanism for its formation

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作者
Kalinina, O [1 ]
Norder, H
Magnius, LO
机构
[1] Swedish Inst Infect Dis Control, Dept Virol, S-17182 Solna, Sweden
[2] St Petersburg Pasteur Inst, St Petersburg 197101, Russia
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D O I
10.1099/vir.0.79984-0
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Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
The full-length ORFs for the hepatitis C virus recombinant RF1_2k/1b (N687) and the non-recombinant 1b strain N589 were sequenced. A single recombination point was found and the sizes of the genes (C, E1, E2, p7, NS2, NS3, NS4 and NS5) were according to the parental subtypes. The PKR-eIF2alpha phosphorylation site homology domain sequence of the E2 protein was identical to those of genotype 2 strains, while the IFN-alpha-sensitivity-determining region of the NS5A protein was identical to those of interferon-resistant 1b strains. For the parental strains, two hairpin structures, HS1 and HS2, were predicted for the plus-strand up- and downstream of the crossover site, which were not present in the recombinant strain. HS2 shared similarity with the motif 1 hairpin of turnip crinkle virus RNA that binds to the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and facilitates 3'-terminal extension during recombination. This study suggests that RF1_2k/1b has emerged by homologous recombination during minus-strand synthesis via template switching because of constraints imposed by the HS1 hairpin of the 3'-parental genome.
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页码:1853 / 1857
页数:5
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