Frequent rearrangement may explain the structural heterogeneity in the 11th genome segment of lapine rotaviruses — Short communication

Bányai, Krisztián and Matthijnssens, Jelle and Szücs, György and Forgách, Petra and Erdélyi, Károly and van Ranst, Marc and Lorusso, Eleonora and Decaro, Nicola and Elia, Gabriella and Martella, Vito (2009) Frequent rearrangement may explain the structural heterogeneity in the 11th genome segment of lapine rotaviruses — Short communication. Acta Veterinaria Hungarica, 57 (3). pp. 453-461. ISSN 0236-6290

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Abstract

In rotaviruses, intragenic recombination or gene rearrangement occurs almost exclusively in the genome segments encoding for non-structural proteins. Rearranged RNA originates by mechanisms of partial sequence duplications and deletions or insertions of non-templated nucleotides. Of interest, epidemiological investigations have pointed out an unusual bias to rearrangements in genome segment 11, notably in rotavirus strains of lapine origin, as evidenced by the detection of numerous lapine strains with super-short genomic electropherotype. The sequence of the full-length genome segment 11 of two lapine strains with super-short electropherotype, LRV-4 and 3489/3, was determined and compared with rearranged and normal cognate genome segments of lapine rotaviruses. The rearranged genome segments contained head-to-tail partial duplications at the 3′ end of the main ORF encoding NSP5. Unlike the strains Alabama and B4106, intermingled stretches of non-templated sequences were not present in the accessory RNA of LRV-4 and 3489/3, while multiple deletions were mapped, suggesting the lack of functional constraints. Altogether, these findings suggest that independent rearrangement events have given origin to the various lapine strains that have super-short genome pattern.

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