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Genomic and structural features of the Yellow Fever virus from the 2016-2017 Brazilian outbreak
M. M. Gomez, F. V. S. de Abreu, A. A. C. dos Santos, I. S. de Mello, M. P. Santos, I. P. Ribeiro, A. Ferreira-de-Brito, R. M. de Miranda, M. G. de Castro, M. S. Ribeiro, R. d. C. Laperriere, S. F. Aguiar, G. L. S. Meira, D. Antunes, P. H. M. Torres, A. C. P. Vicente, A. C. R. Guimaraes, E. R. Caffarena, G. Bello, R. Lourenco-de-Oliveira, M. C. Bonaldo
Abstract
Brazil has been suffering a severe sylvatic epidemic of yellow fever virus (YFV) since late 2016. Analysis of full-length YFV genomes from all hosts involved in the Brazilian 2017 outbreak reveals that they belong to sub-lineage 1E within modern-lineage, but display several unique amino acid substitutions in highly conserved positions at NS3 and NS5 viral proteins. Evolutionary analyses indicate that YFV carrying that set of amino acid substitution circulates in the Southern Brazilian region for several months before being detected in December 2016. Structural and selection analyses support that some of these substitutions were under positive selection and could impact enzyme structure and function. Altogether, this evidence demonstrated that the current Brazilian YFV carries unique amino acid signatures in the non-structural proteins and support the hypothesis that those substitutions may be affecting the viral fitness and transmissibility.
- organism: virus
- assay: whole-genome sequencing
- research focus: phylogenetics / evolution
- research focus: variant calling
- research focus: variant effect prediction
- approach: statistical model
- approach: experimental assay
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