Aquaculture Pathology Group, Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology, The University of Arizona, 1117 East Lowell Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA1
UMR 5098, CNRS/IFREMER/UM2, cc080, Place East Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France2
Author for correspondence: J.-R. Bonami. Fax +33 4 67 14 46 22. e-mail bonami{at}crit.univ-montp2.fr
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Abstract |
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Introduction |
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TSV was first isolated and characterized by Bonami et al. (1997) . The particle is non-enveloped, icosahedral in shape, 3132 nm in diameter and has a density of 1·338 g/ml in CsCl. It contains a single-stranded RNA molecule of approximately 9 kb and the capsid consists of three major polypeptides of 55, 40 and 24 kDa and a minor protein of 58 kDa. The TSV genome was partially cloned (Mari et al., 1998
), allowing the construction of specific cDNA probes which are commercially available (DiagXotics) for its diagnosis. In this preliminary work, no sequence data were determined to give support to a taxonomic position of TSV but, by its general properties, it was related to the family Picornaviridae (Bonami et al., 1997
).
To date, the complete nucleotide sequences of several picorna-like viruses from various species of insects have been reported and these reports have revealed differences in their genomic organization. The coding strategy of Sacbrood virus (SBV) (Ghosh et al., 1999 ) and Infectious flacherie virus (IFV) (Isawa et al., 1998
) resembles that of a typical picornavirus, exhibiting a unique large open reading frame (ORF) with the structural proteins located at the 5' extremity. For Acyrthosiphon pisum virus (APV) (van der Wilk et al., 1997
), Drosophila C virus (DCV) (Johnson & Christian, 1998
), Rhopalosiphum padi virus (RhPV) (Moon et al., 1998
), Plautia stali intestine virus (PSIV) (Sasaki et al., 1998
), Himetobi P virus (HiPV) (Nakashima et al., 1999
), Black queen cell virus (BQCV) (Leat et al., 2000
), Cricket paralysis virus (CrPV) (Wilson et al., 2000a
) and Triatoma virus (TrV) (Czibener et al., 2000
), the nucleotide sequence data revealed the presence of two ORFs and the structural proteins are encoded at the 3'-terminal region. The viruses DCV, CrPV, PSIV, RhPV and HiPV have been assigned to a new genus named Cricket paralysis-like viruses (CrPV-like viruses), which is distinct from the family Picornaviridae (van Regenmortel et al., 2000
). As TSV is the first characterized picorna-like virus infecting an invertebrate other than an insect, it was of interest to determine its genomic organization.
We now report the full nucleotide sequence of the TSV genome, which possesses a gene order and an organization similar to small RNA viruses belonging to the novel genus CrPV-like viruses, members of which were previously known only to infect insects.
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Methods |
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cDNA synthesis and cloning.
Transcription of the TSV RNA genome was performed using a cDNA Synthesis kit (Roche). For the TSV poly(A)+ RNA, first-strand synthesis was initiated at the 3' terminus using oligo(dT) primers. The double-stranded cDNA fragments were cloned into the pBluescript II KS(-) vector using competent Escherichia coli strain DH5 by standard procedures (Sambrook et al., 1989
). Libraries of TSV genome fragments (Mari et al., 1998
) cloned into pUC18 or pBluescript II KS(-) vectors, after cDNA synthesis using random primers, were also used.
The sequences of the inserts of the initial clones were used to design oligonucleotide primers to amplify large regions of the RNA or to confirm specific areas of the sequence by RTPCR procedures using a Titan One Tube RTPCR system (Roche). The PCR fragments were cloned using the TA Cloning kit (Invitrogen), according to the manufacturers instructions. To obtain the 5'-terminal sequence of the viral genome, 5' RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) was performed using a 5'/3' RACE kit (Roche). Identification of recombinant clones, plasmid isolation and restriction enzyme digestions were done as described previously (Mari et al., 1998 ).
DNA sequencing.
Nucleotide sequencing of cDNA inserts was performed at Euro Sequence Gene Service (Genopole, Evry, France) on an ABI 377 sequencer using an ABI PRISM Big Dye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Ready Reaction kit with AmpliTaq DNA polymerase (PE Applied Biosystems). Sequencing was done on both ends of the (sub)cloned fragments by using either the universal primers of the vector or TSV-specific primers. The TSV genomic sequence was determined from several overlapping independent clones.
Protein sequencing.
To determine the location of the coding region of the capsid proteins, N-terminal amino acid sequencing was performed. Capsid proteins from purified TSV particles were separated on SDSPAGE and blotted onto an Immobilon-PSQ PVDF membrane (Millipore). Protein bands visualized by Coomassie brilliant blue were excised and protein microsequencing was carried out in the Laboratory for Protein Sequencing and Analysis (The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA) on an ABI 477A sequencer (PE Applied Biosystems).
Computer analysis of sequence data.
Nucleotide and amino acid sequences were analysed and compared with the GenBank, SWISS-PROT/EMBL and PIR databases using the BLAST (Altschul et al., 1997 ) and FASTA (Pearson & Lipman, 1988
) programs. Multiple alignments were performed using CLUSTAL W (Thompson et al., 1994
) and phylogenetic analysis was done with PHYLIP (Felsenstein, 1993
). The secondary structure of the intergenic region was examined using the program Mfold, version 2·3 (Zuker et al., 1999
; Mathews et al., 1999
), with a temperature setting at 28 °C, which corresponds to the optimum environmental temperature for P. vannamei.
The virus sequences, abbreviations and accession numbers used in this work are as follows: Drosophila C virus (DCV, AF014388); Cricket paralysis virus (CrPV, AF218039); Plautia stali intestine virus (PSIV, AB006531); Rhopalosiphum padi virus (RhPV, AF022937); Himetobi P virus (HiPV, AB017037); Black queen cell virus (BQCV, AF183905); Triatoma virus (TrV, AF178440); Acyrthosiphon pisum virus (APV, AF14514); Infectious flacherie virus (IFV, AB000906); Sacbrood virus (SBV, AF092924); Parsnip yellow fleck virus (PYFV, JQ1917); Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV, P03600); Foot-and-mouth disease virus type O (FMDV, X00871); Avian encephalomyelitis virus (AEV, CAA12416); Human hepatitis A virus (HHAV, P06441); Aichi virus (AiV, AB010145); Encephalomyocarditis virus strain EMC-D (EMCV, P17594); Theilers murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV, M20301); Porcine enterovirus serotype 1 (PEV1, AJ011380); Human poliovirus type 1 (PV1, NP056752); Bovine enterovirus type 1 (BEV-1, D84065); Human rhinovirus B serotype 14 (HRV, X01087); and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV, M18370).
The other sequences for IAPs from eukaryotic species and viruses are as follows: mouse neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein 3 (mNIAP, NP035003); human neuronal apoptosis inhibitory protein 1 (hNIAP, AAC83232); apoptosis inhibitor survivin (surv., AAC51660); BIR containing ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (BRUCE, Y17267); Drosophila melanogaster IAP homologue A (DIHA, AAB08398); chick IAP (c-IAP, Q90660); Caenorhabditis elegans apoptosis inhibitor homologue (C.el, Q18727); Schirosaccharomyces pombes BIR protein (S.pom, O14064); Chilo iridescent virus putative apoptosis inhibitor (CIV, AAB94481); Cydia pomonella granulovirus IAP (CpGV, AAA43835); and African swine fever virus IAP-like protein (ASFM2, O11453).
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Results |
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The complete sequence of the TSV RNA was constructed by compiling sequences from multiple overlapping cDNA clones from the different constructed libraries. The TSV genome is 10205 nucleotides long, excluding the 3' poly(A) tail. It is larger than the estimated size of 9 kb based on agarose gel electrophoresis (Bonami et al., 1997 ). The base composition of the TSV genome is A (28%), U (29%), G (23%) and C (20%).
Coding and non-coding regions
Two large ORFs were identified in the positive-sense RNA sequence (Fig. 1). For ORF1, the first AUG codon is located at position 378380. But, the sequence around this first AUG (UAGAUGC) is not in agreement with the most common initiation codon sequence found in invertebrates (ANNAUGG) (Cavener & Ray, 1991
). However, the second in-frame AUG at position 417, associated with the surrounding sequence ACUAUGG, possesses the context identified by Cavener & Ray (1991)
and could be the translation initiation site. Assuming that this second AUG is the initiation codon, ORF1, which ends at nucleotide 6736, encodes a 234 kDa polyprotein with 2107 amino acids. ORF2 is in a different frame to ORF1. It possesses an AUG codon at nucleotide 6947 and extends to nucleotide 9982. ORF2 encodes a 1011 amino acid protein of approximately 112 kDa.
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Analysis of the ORF1 amino acid product
The predicted amino acid product of ORF1 contains sequence motifs of non-structural proteins that correspond to the conserved motifs of a helicase (NTP-binding protein), a protease and an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) found in viruses from the picorna-like virus superfamily (Koonin & Dolja, 1993 ).
The consensus sequence of an RNA helicase, Gx4GK (Gorbalenya et al., 1989a ), was found at amino acid position 752758. Among the three motifs (A, B and C) identified by Koonin & Dolja (1993)
, the TSV helicase matches only the A motif. The consensus sequences of the B and C motifs are not perfectly conserved but are still recognizable. An alignment of the TSV helicase domain shows a high degree of sequence conservation with the helicase domain of PSIV, HiPV, RhPV, DCV, TrV and BQCV (Fig. 2a
). This sequence conservation does not apply only to the A, B and C motifs; it is particularly noticeable in the sequences surrounding these motifs.
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The RdRp motif of positive-stranded RNA viruses, as defined by Koonin & Dolja (1993) , was located in the C-terminal region of the ORF1 product. In multiple alignment analysis, the eight consensus motifs for the RdRp domain of viruses from supergroup 1, including the picorna-like virus superfamily (Koonin, 1991
; Koonin & Dolja, 1993
) were identified (Fig. 2c
). All of the highly conserved amino acids are present on the RdRp domain of TSV, except that a cysteine is present at amino acid 1923 on motif 5 rather than the typical serine or threonine. An identical change was described on an RdRp domain of DCV (Johnson & Christian, 1998
) and is also found in the APV RdRp domain. Compared to insect RNA viruses, the TSV RdRp domain was most similar to that of DCV, with an identity of 38·2%. A good degree of relatedness was found for the other CrPV-like viruses (between 32·8 and 29·5% identity). A lesser degree of relatedness was obtained for SBV (28% identity), IFV (23·8% identity) and APV (21·4% identity). A multiple alignment analysis with the RdRp domain of TSV, DCV, RhPV, PSIV, HiPV, TrV and BQCV shows a high similarity in conserved residues in the amino acid sequence spanning the eight consensus motifs and also in additional conserved sequences upstream and downstream of this region (data not shown). Upstream additional motifs were mentioned for the RdRp domain from supergroup 1 (Koonin, 1991
) but downstream conserved amino acid sequences were not reported.
The deduced amino acid sequence of ORF1 was compared with protein databases using BLAST. Beside the conserved domains for the helicase, protease and RdRp, a short sequence at amino acids 160233 revealed significant similarity with IAPs found in mammals, insects, yeast and some DNA viruses. On the ORF1 product, only one copy of a BIR domain was present and no C-terminal RING (zinc finger C3HC4 protein) domain was detected. Multiple alignments of the TSV BIR-like amino acid sequence with BIR domains of IAP from animal species and viruses are shown in Fig. 3. The TSV BIR-like amino acid sequence does not match perfectly in the N-terminal region with the consensus BIR motif. However, the presence and spacing of cysteine and histidine residues (Cx2Cx6Wx3Dx5Hx6C) on the C terminus are strictly conserved.
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TSV particles have three major proteins, designated Vp1 to Vp3 (55, 40 and 24 kDa), and one minor protein, Vp0 (58 kDa) (Bonami et al., 1997 ). A low molecular mass protein, Vp4, reported for some CrPV-like viruses (Sasaki et al., 1998
; Nakashima et al., 1999
; Leat et al., 2000
) was not evident in TSV particles analysed by SDSPAGE. The N-terminal sequences for Vp1, Vp2 and Vp3 were SKDRDMTKVNA, ANPVEIDNFDTT and AGLDYSSSDTST, respectively. These N-terminal sequences were found in the deduced amino acid sequence of ORF2 and the 5' termini of the coding regions were mapped at nucleotides 7937, 6953 and 9413, respectively. The orientation of the ORF2 product (N-terminal to C-terminal) is such that the order of these proteins is Vp2, Vp1 and Vp3. Their molecular masses, assuming that proteolytic cleavage occurs at the amino acid just before the N terminus of the next protein (or stop codon), were calculated to be 36·4, 54·6 and 21·1 kDa, respectively. These three proteins encompassed the entire amino acid sequence of the ORF2 product. Concerning the minor protein, Vp0, for which we were unable to obtain the N-terminal amino acid sequence, we hypothesize, as was described for Vp0 (35 kDa protein) of PSIV (Sasaki et al., 1998
), that it is produced by a different proteolytic cleavage of the capsid polyprotein and could be a precursor for a Vp4 protein (as yet not determined).
The nomenclature of TSV capsid proteins was derived from their size (based on their electrophoretic mobility) and not from their function or organization on the genome. Here, for convenience, we will use the following abbreviations for TSV and for all of the CrPV-like viruses: CP1 for the coat protein at the N terminus of ORF2, CP2 at the second position from the N terminus and CP3 at the C terminus of the ORF2 product. The low molecular mass protein (Vp4) only identified and located in the ORF2 sequence of PSIV, HiPV and BQCV, will be named CP4.
The pairwise amino acid identity of the ORF2 product of TSV, PSIV, DCV, RhPV, TrV, HiPV and BQCV showed that the level of relatedness between TSV and the other viruses (average identity range of 1921%) was lower than between the other viruses (average identity range of 2639%). Individual pairwise analysis of the three major coat protein sequences revealed similarity for TSV CP1 (23·5% identity with CP1 of PSIV and RhPV) and CP3 (23% identity with CP3 of PSIV and RhPV). TSV CP2 showed the lowest degree of relatedness with CP2 of the other viruses (16 to 18% identity). This result was due to the difference in size between TSV CP2 (amino acid 492) and CP2 of the viruses listed above (size ranges from 267 to 298 amino acids). However, sequence homology was found with 250 amino acids at the N-terminal end of TSV CP2. Over this region, the TSV sequence showed an identity range from 25·9% for RhPV to 20·8% for DCV and multiple alignments revealed conserved sequences (Fig. 4). A BLAST search revealed that the same region of CP2 presented some similarities with Vp3 coat protein of AiV (24% identity in 126 amino acids), AEV (23% identity in 167 amino acids), HAV (26% identity in 173 amino acids) and PEV1 (22% identity in 159 amino acids).
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By phylogenetic analysis using the conserved RdRp sequences of representatives of the picornavirus superfamily, TSV groups with the CrPV-like viruses but in a separate branch. This separation may reflect the host specificity of TSV for Crustacea compared to the other members of the genus which all infect insects. The relationships among the members of the genus, based on the amino acid sequence similarities of the capsid protein CP2, suggest also that TSV is the most distantly related member of the genus.
That TSV is distantly related to the other CrPV-like viruses is also supported by other unusual features. In the TSV sequence, ORF2 possesses an AUG initiation codon upstream of the capsid-coding region. The other members of the genus lack an in-frame AUG initiation codon for ORF2 translation. For PSIV, it was demonstrated that ORF2 translation is mediated by an IRES at an unrelated AUG codon. The initiation site was first identified as a CUU triplet located one codon upstream of the 5' terminus of the capsid-coding region (Sasaki & Nakashima, 1999 ). A similar translation mechanism for ORF2 was demonstrated for CrPV and RhPV at a CCU triplet (Wilson et al., 2000a
; Domier et al., 2000
) and postulated for DCV and BQCV at a CCU triplet (Sasaki & Nakashima, 1999
; Leat et al., 2000
), for HiPV at a CUA triplet (Nakashima et al., 1999
) and for TrV at a CUC triplet (Czibener et al., 2000
). Recent studies show that this triplet is involved in the inverted repeat sequence suggested to interact and form a pseudoknot structure essential for IRES activity and initiation of ORF2 translation (Sasaki & Nakashima, 2000
; Wilson et al., 2000a
; Domier et al., 2000
). This triplet preceding the first codon of the capsid-coding region is not decoded and the methionine is not the initiating amino acid in ORF2 IRES-mediated translation but the translation start at the first codon of the capsid protein (Sasaki & Nakashima, 2000
; Wilson et al., 2000b
). For TSV, the N-terminal amino acid for the capsid polyprotein is an alanine encoded by a GCU codon at nucleotides 69536955, which is separated from the AUG methionine codon by a CCU encoding a proline. The initiation at the conventional AUG codon implies the removal of the N-terminal methionine and proline residues before the capsid formation. Considering that such post-translational processing was never described in the literature, the hypothesis that TSV ORF2 translation starts at the AUG codon seems questionable. In multiple alignment, the CCU triplet aligns with the triplet preceding the capsid-coding region of the CrPV-like viruses. However, for TSV, it is not a part of an inverted repeat sequence required for IRES activity, which has been demonstrated for PSIV, CrPV and RhPV. To date, we have not investigated whether this difference has an effect on TSV ORF2 translation and if the initiation starts at the first codon of the capsid-coding region as for the other CrPV-like viruses. However, the sequence homology in the intergenic region between TSV and the other members of the genus CrPV-like viruses suggests that TSV ORF2 is translated by an IRES. We can speculate, in the context of IRES-mediated translation, that the CCU codon located one codon upstream of the capsid-coding region could be the initiation site.
The TSV ORF2 product shows similarities with the structural polyproteins of viruses from the CrPV-like viruses but with a lower relatedness than between these viruses (Sasaki et al., 1998 ; Moon et al., 1998
; Czibener et al., 2000
; Leat et al., 2000
). TSV CP2 is the most different, but despite this low relatedness, possesses conserved sequences encompassing 250 amino acids at the N-terminal end. The similarity found with the Vp3 coat proteins of some Picornaviridae, particularly from the genus Hepatovirus, is also located on this short portion of TSV CP2 and could be the signature of a common ancestry. The cleavage site at the junction CP1 (or CP4)/CP2 is highly conserved in TSV as in other members of the genus CrPV-like viruses and occurs preferentially at a phenylalanine/serine pair. The boundaries of sequence conservation at this junction suggest that an as yet undetermined but identical cleavage process is involved in members of this genus.
ORF1 in the 5' region of the TSV genome encodes for non-structural proteins, such as helicase, protease and RdRp, in the same gene order as has been described for the CrPV-like viruses as well as for the members of the picornavirus superfamily (van Regenmortel et al., 2000 ). The TSV domains for helicase, protease and RdRp show a higher degree of sequence conservation with the same domains of members of the genus CrPV-like viruses than with those of other insect RNA viruses (IFV, SBV and APV) and of representatives of families Picornaviridae, Sequiviridae and Comoviridae. On multiple alignments, the sequence conservation among members of the genus CrPV-like viruses is particularly noticeable and reveals other conserved amino acid sequences around the motifs described for the picornavirus superfamily (Koonin, 1991
). These additional sequences, highly conserved in all CrPV-like viruses, could be considered to be characteristic of the genus.
The TSV ORF1 product possesses in the N-terminal region a short amino acid sequence with similarities to a BIR domain of an IAP. Several IAP families were described in eukaryotic species (yeast, nematodes, insects and mammals) and in double-stranded DNA viruses (Deveraux & Reed, 1999 ; OBrien, 1998
). They are particularly well known in baculoviruses, in which these apoptosis suppressors were first described (Crook et al., 1993
; Birnbaum et al., 1994
). However, until now, sequences with similarity to a BIR domain have never been reported for RNA viruses and the origin and function of the BIR-like sequence in TSV remain enigmatic. In the TSV genome, only one BIR-like sequence was identified, whereas baculoviruses possess two BIR domains and a RING domain (C3HC4 zinc finger). Compared to the BIR consensus sequence, the TSV BIR-like sequence is only well conserved in its C terminus, corresponding to a potential cysteine/histidine-based zinc finger fold (Hinds et al., 1999
). At least one BIR domain is required for an anti-apoptotic function in all of the IAP family of proteins, but not all BIR-containing proteins are necessarily involved in apoptotic regulation (Deveraux & Reed, 1999
). Some are suggested to participate in cellular functions such as cell division (Li et al., 1998
, 2000
; Uren et al., 1999
). The location of the TSV BIR-like sequence in ORF1 upstream of the usual non-structural proteins suggests that it may be a protein that is transcribed early. In this regard, this protein could have an important function with respect to the biology and development of TSV. Therefore, the function of this protein should be investigated, particularly in relation to its potential role in anti-apoptotic regulation.
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Received 26 October 2001;
accepted 18 December 2001.