Sequence analysis of the nucleocapsid and phosphoprotein genes of avian pneumoviruses circulating in the US

Arshud M. Dar, Shirin Munir, Sagar M. Goyal, Mitchell S. Abrahamsen, Vivek Kapur

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Abstract

Avian pneumovirus (APV) has recently been described as the cause of a new respiratory syndrome in turkey flocks in the United States. We here describe the complete sequence of the nucleocapsid (N) and phosphoprotein (P) genes of this emerging APV (APV/US). Our results show 59 and 61% nucleotide sequence identity of the APV/US N gene with N genes of previously described European APV subgroups A and B, respectively. The P gene of APV/US showed only 53% nucleotide sequence identity with the ortholog from APV subgroup A. Phylogenetic analyses of both N and P genes clearly demonstrate that the APV/US lineage is evolutionarily related but distinct from European APVs. Moreover, sequence analysis of the N and P genes from two laboratory adapted isolates of APV/US (APV/MN-1a and APV/MN-1b) and from ten clinical samples from APV-infected turkeys suggests only modest level of amino acid divergence in the N (0-0.3%) and P (0-1.4%) proteins. Taken together, the results of this study indicate that APV/US represents a new subgroup (subgroup C) of APV and show that there is limited heterogeneity in the N and P genes of APV/US isolates.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)15-25
Number of pages11
JournalVirus research
Volume79
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 5 2001

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Research in the laboratory of V. Kapur is supported in part by National Institute of Health, US Department of Agriculture, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, and Minnesota Turkey Growers Association.

Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Avian pneumovirus
  • Nucleocapsid gene
  • Phosphoprotein gene
  • Phylogenetic relationships
  • Sequence analysis

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