Positive selection results in frequent reversible amino acid replacements in the G protein gene of human respiratory syncytial virus

• Autor(a) principal: Botosso, Viviane F.
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Zanotto, Paolo M. de A., Ueda, Mirthes, Arruda, Eurico, Gilio, Alfredo E., Ieira, Sandra E., Stewien, Klaus E., Peret, Teresa C. T., Jamal, Leda F., Pardini, Maria I. de M. C., Pinho, Joãr, Massad, Duardo, Sant'Anna, Osvaldo A., Holmes, Eddie C., Durigon, Edison L., Comone, Priscila, Do Sacramento, Patrícia R., Durigan, Mariana S., Oliveira, Danielle B. L., Moraes, Claudia T. P., Campo, Angélica C. A., Leal, Andréia L., Silva, Tereza S., Carvalho, Ariane C. L., Tenório, Elisabeth C. N., Cintra, Otavio A. L., Ansarah-Sobrinho, Camilo, Proençna-Modena, José L., Iwamoto, Marisa A., De Paula, Flávia E., Souza, Maria C. O., Vaz-de-Lima, Lourdes R. A., Matsumoto, Tokiko K., Sato, Neuza N., Salgado, Maristela M., Hong, Marisa A., Requejo, Henry I., Barbosa, Maria L., Oliveiveira, Carmem A. F., Passos, Saulo D., Pecchini, Rogério, Berezin, Eitan, Schvartsman, Claudio, Pannuti, Cláudio S., Candeias, João M. G., Han, Sang W., Garcia, José F., Carrilho, Flair J., Figueiredo, Luíz T. M., Duarte, Alberto J. Da S., Wolff, José L. C., Rahal, Paula [UNESP], Richtzenhain, Leonardo J., Gonçales Jr., Fernando L., De Lima, Edimo G.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000254; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/70883
• topic: epitope; guanine nucleotide binding protein; virus protein; amino acid substitution; child; codon; controlled study; gene sequence; genotype; human; infant; major clinical study; newborn; nonhuman; nucleotide sequence; phylogeny; preschool child; Respiratory syncytial pneumovirus; respiratory syncytial pneumovirus a; respiratory syncytial pneumovirus b; unindexed sequence; virus gene; genetic variability; genetics; molecular evolution; respiratory tract infection; Human respiratory syncytial virus; Hydrangea ringspot virus; Amino Acid Substitution; Epitopes; Evolution, Molecular; Genetic Variation; Genotype; GTP-Binding Proteins; Humans; Phylogeny; Respiratory Syncytial Viruses; Respiratory Tract Infections; Viral Proteins

Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is the major cause of lower respiratory tract infections in children under 5 years of age and the elderly, causing annual disease outbreaks during the fall and winter. Multiple lineages of the HRSVA and HRSVB serotypes co-circulate within a single outbreak and display a strongly temporal pattern of genetic variation, with a replacement of dominant genotypes occurring during consecutive years. In the present study we utilized phylogenetic methods to detect and map sites subject to adaptive evolution in the G protein of HRSVA and HRSVB. A total of 29 and 23 amino acid sites were found to be putatively positively selected in HRSVA and HRSVB, respectively. Several of these sites defined genotypes and lineages within genotypes in both groups, and correlated well with epitopes previously described in group A. Remarkably, 18 of these positively selected tended to revert in time to a previous codon state, producing a flipflop phylogenetic pattern. Such frequent evolutionary reversals in HRSV are indicative of a combination of frequent positive selection, reflecting the changing immune status of the human population, and a limited repertoire of functionally viable amino acids at specific amino acid sites.