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The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae”
Kaumoebavirus infects the amoeba Vermamoeba vermiformis and has recently been described as a distant relative of the African swine fever virus. To characterize the diversity and evolution of this novel viral genus, we report here on the isolation and genome sequencing of a second strain of Kaumoebav...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498382 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13020148 |
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author | Geballa-Koukoulas, Khalil Andreani, Julien La Scola, Bernard Blanc, Guillaume |
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description | Kaumoebavirus infects the amoeba Vermamoeba vermiformis and has recently been described as a distant relative of the African swine fever virus. To characterize the diversity and evolution of this novel viral genus, we report here on the isolation and genome sequencing of a second strain of Kaumoebavirus, namely LCC10. Detailed analysis of the sequencing data suggested that its 362-Kb genome is linear with covalently closed hairpin termini, so that DNA forms a single continuous polynucleotide chain. Comparative genomic analysis indicated that although the two sequenced Kaumoebavirus strains share extensive gene collinearity, 180 predicted genes were either gained or lost in only one genome. As already observed in another distant relative, i.e., Faustovirus, which infects the same host, the center and extremities of the Kaumoebavirus genome exhibited a higher rate of sequence divergence and the major capsid protein gene was colonized by type-I introns. A possible role of the Vermamoeba host in the genesis of these evolutionary traits is hypothesized. The Kaumoebavirus genome exhibited a significant gene strand bias over the two-third of genome length, a feature not seen in the other members of the “extended Asfarviridae” clade. We suggest that this gene strand bias was induced by a putative single origin of DNA replication located near the genome extremity that imparted a selective force favoring the genes positioned on the leading strand. |
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spelling | pubmed-79094222021-02-27 The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae” Geballa-Koukoulas, Khalil Andreani, Julien La Scola, Bernard Blanc, Guillaume Viruses Article Kaumoebavirus infects the amoeba Vermamoeba vermiformis and has recently been described as a distant relative of the African swine fever virus. To characterize the diversity and evolution of this novel viral genus, we report here on the isolation and genome sequencing of a second strain of Kaumoebavirus, namely LCC10. Detailed analysis of the sequencing data suggested that its 362-Kb genome is linear with covalently closed hairpin termini, so that DNA forms a single continuous polynucleotide chain. Comparative genomic analysis indicated that although the two sequenced Kaumoebavirus strains share extensive gene collinearity, 180 predicted genes were either gained or lost in only one genome. As already observed in another distant relative, i.e., Faustovirus, which infects the same host, the center and extremities of the Kaumoebavirus genome exhibited a higher rate of sequence divergence and the major capsid protein gene was colonized by type-I introns. A possible role of the Vermamoeba host in the genesis of these evolutionary traits is hypothesized. The Kaumoebavirus genome exhibited a significant gene strand bias over the two-third of genome length, a feature not seen in the other members of the “extended Asfarviridae” clade. We suggest that this gene strand bias was induced by a putative single origin of DNA replication located near the genome extremity that imparted a selective force favoring the genes positioned on the leading strand. MDPI 2021-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7909422/ /pubmed/33498382 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13020148 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Geballa-Koukoulas, Khalil Andreani, Julien La Scola, Bernard Blanc, Guillaume The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae” |
title | The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae” |
title_full | The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae” |
title_fullStr | The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae” |
title_full_unstemmed | The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae” |
title_short | The Kaumoebavirus LCC10 Genome Reveals a Unique Gene Strand Bias among “Extended Asfarviridae” |
title_sort | kaumoebavirus lcc10 genome reveals a unique gene strand bias among “extended asfarviridae” |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909422/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498382 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13020148 |
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