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Nucleotide sequences of IRES domains IV and V of natural ECHO virus type 11 isolates with different replicative
Jawhar Gharbi1, Raïda el Hiar, Manel Ben M'hadheb
1Faculté de Pharmacie de Monastir, Laboratoire des Maladies Transmissibles, Unité Pathogenése & Atténuation Virales, Avenue Avicenne, 5000, Monastir, Tunisia. jawhargharbi@yahoo.fr
Abstract:
ECHO viruses (ECV) belong to the enterovirus genus of the Picornaviridae family and are the most frequently isolated from clinical and environmental samples. They are responsible for a wide variety of clinical syndromes involving most organs of the human body. We previously postulated that some of the variations in the recognition of ECHO virus type 11 (ECV 11) strains by a group specific monoclonal antibody (Mab) which we have studied could be explained by variations in their replicative capacity in cell culture and variations within the 5' nontranslated region (5' NTR) of their genomes. To support this hypothesis, the replicative capacity in cell culture and the nucleotide sequences of domains IV and V of the IRES of the genome of five ECV11 strains (the Gregory reference strain and four wild isolates) were determined, and analysed. Our results indicate that the replicative capacity of wild ECV11 isolates studied by one-step growth cycle in both HEp-2 and Vero cell cultures showed variations among strains in comparison with the Gregory reference strain. The clinical ECV11 strains replicated as well as the reference strain, however environmental strains displayed a phenotype with a significant reduction of replication. The sequences of ECV 11 strains showed significant conservation with that of the poliovirus (PV1) Mahoney strain The comparative examination of the predicted secondary structures revealed, that the nucleotide variations did not affect the secondary structure of stem-loop structure IV and V in the IRES element, however differences were especially observed in the apical stem region (nucleotides 483 to 509) of the domain V of the ECV11 strains and resulted in modification of the central stem structure.
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