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Rollin J, Bester R, Brostaux Y, Caglayan K, De Jonghe K, Eichmeier A, Foucart Y, Haegeman A, Koloniuk I, Kominek P, Maree H, Onder S, Posada Céspedes S, Roumi V, Šafářová D, Schumpp O, Ulubas Serce C, Sõmera M, Tamisier L, Vainio E, van der Vlugt RAA, Massart S. Detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms in virus genomes assembled from high-throughput sequencing data: large-scale performance testing of sequence analysis strategies. PeerJ 2023; 11:e15816. [PMID: 37601254 PMCID: PMC10439718 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
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Recent developments in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and bioinformatics have drastically changed research in virology, especially for virus discovery. Indeed, proper monitoring of the viral population requires information on the different isolates circulating in the studied area. For this purpose, HTS has greatly facilitated the sequencing of new genomes of detected viruses and their comparison. However, bioinformatics analyses allowing reconstruction of genome sequences and detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can potentially create bias and has not been widely addressed so far. Therefore, more knowledge is required on the limitations of predicting SNPs based on HTS-generated sequence samples. To address this issue, we compared the ability of 14 plant virology laboratories, each employing a different bioinformatics pipeline, to detect 21 variants of pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) in three samples through large-scale performance testing (PT) using three artificially designed datasets. To evaluate the impact of bioinformatics analyses, they were divided into three key steps: reads pre-processing, virus-isolate identification, and variant calling. Each step was evaluated independently through an original, PT design including discussion and validation between participants at each step. Overall, this work underlines key parameters influencing SNPs detection and proposes recommendations for reliable variant calling for plant viruses. The identification of the closest reference, mapping parameters and manual validation of the detection were recognized as the most impactful analysis steps for the success of the SNPs detections. Strategies to improve the prediction of SNPs are also discussed.
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- Johan Rollin
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology—TERRA—Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium
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- Citrus Research International, Matieland, South Africa
- Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
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- Laboratory of Statistics, Computer Science and Modelling Applied to Bioengineering, TERRA, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Teaching and Research Centre, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium
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- Plant Protection Department, Agricultural Faculty, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
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- Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Mendeleum—Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Horticulture, Mendel University in Brno, Lednice, Czech Republic
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- Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Biology Centre CAS, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Citrus Research International, Matieland, South Africa
- Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey
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- Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, 4058, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Basel, Switzerland
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- Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran
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- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Plant Production and Technologies Department, Ayhan Şahenk Faculty of Agricultural Science and Technologies, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Niğde, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Pathologie Végétale, Institut National de la Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Montfavet, France
- GAFL, Institut National de la Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Montfavet, France
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory of Plant Pathology—TERRA—Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium
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Assembling Quality Genomes of Flax Fungal Pathogens from Oxford Nanopore Technologies Data. J Fungi (Basel) 2023; 9:jof9030301. [PMID: 36983469 PMCID: PMC10055923 DOI: 10.3390/jof9030301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is attacked by numerous devastating fungal pathogens, including Colletotrichum lini, Aureobasidium pullulans, and Fusarium verticillioides (Fusarium moniliforme). The effective control of flax diseases follows the paradigm of extensive molecular research on pathogenicity. However, such studies require quality genome sequences of the studied organisms. This article reports on the approaches to assembling a high-quality fungal genome from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies data. We sequenced the genomes of C. lini, A. pullulans, and F. verticillioides (F. moniliforme) and received different volumes of sequencing data: 1.7 Gb, 3.9 Gb, and 11.1 Gb, respectively. To obtain the optimal genome sequences, we studied the effect of input data quality and genome coverage on assembly statistics and tested the performance of different assembling and polishing software. For C. lini, the most contiguous and complete assembly was obtained by the Flye assembler and the Homopolish polisher. The genome coverage had more effect than data quality on assembly statistics, likely due to the relatively low amount of sequencing data obtained for C. lini. The final assembly was 53.4 Mb long and 96.4% complete (according to the glomerellales_odb10 BUSCO dataset), consisted of 42 contigs, and had an N50 of 4.4 Mb. For A. pullulans and F. verticillioides (F. moniliforme), the best assemblies were produced by Canu–Medaka and Canu–Homopolish, respectively. The final assembly of A. pullulans had a length of 29.5 Mb, 99.4% completeness (dothideomycetes_odb10), an N50 of 2.4 Mb and consisted of 32 contigs. F. verticillioides (F. moniliforme) assembly was 44.1 Mb long, 97.8% complete (hypocreales_odb10), consisted of 54 contigs, and had an N50 of 4.4 Mb. The obtained results can serve as a guideline for assembling a de novo genome of a fungus. In addition, our data can be used in genomic studies of fungal pathogens or plant–pathogen interactions and assist in the management of flax diseases.
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Gene signature of m6A-related targets to predict prognosis and immunotherapy response in ovarian cancer. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2023; 149:593-608. [PMID: 36048273 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-022-04162-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of the study was to construct a risk score model based on m6A-related targets to predict overall survival and immunotherapy response in ovarian cancer. METHODS The gene expression profiles of 24 m6A regulators were extracted. Survival analysis screened 9 prognostic m6A regulators. Next, consensus clustering analysis was applied to identify clusters of ovarian cancer patients. Furthermore, 47 phenotype-related differentially expressed genes, strongly correlated with 9 prognostic m6A regulators, were screened and subjected to univariate and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) Cox regression. Ultimately, a nomogram was constructed which presented a strong ability to predict overall survival in ovarian cancer. RESULTS CBLL1, FTO, HNRNPC, METTL3, METTL14, WTAP, ZC3H13, RBM15B and YTHDC2 were associated with worse overall survival (OS) in ovarian cancer. Three m6A clusters were identified, which were highly consistent with the three immune phenotypes. What is more, a risk model based on seven m6A-related targets was constructed with distinct prognosis. In addition, the low-risk group is the best candidate population for immunotherapy. CONCLUSION We comprehensively analyzed the m6A modification landscape of ovarian cancer and detected seven m6A-related targets as an independent prognostic biomarker for predicting survival. Furthermore, we divided patients into high- and low-risk groups with distinct prognosis and select the optimum population which may benefit from immunotherapy and constructed a nomogram to precisely predict ovarian cancer patients' survival time and visualize the prediction results.
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Camiolo S, Hughes J, Baldanti F, Furione M, Lilleri D, Lombardi G, Angelini M, Gerna G, Zavattoni M, Davison AJ, Suárez NM. Identifying high-confidence variants in human cytomegalovirus genomes sequenced from clinical samples. Virus Evol 2022; 8:veac114. [PMID: 37091479 PMCID: PMC10120596 DOI: 10.1093/ve/veac114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Revised: 10/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Understanding the intrahost evolution of viral populations has implications in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment and has recently made impressive advances from developments in high-throughput sequencing. However, the underlying analyses are very sensitive to sources of bias, error, and artefact in the data, and it is important that these are addressed adequately if robust conclusions are to be drawn. The key factors include (1) determining the number of viral strains present in the sample analysed; (2) monitoring the extent to which the data represent these strains and assessing the quality of these data; (3) dealing with the effects of cross-contamination; and (4) ensuring that the results are reproducible. We investigated these factors by generating sequence datasets, including biological and technical replicates, directly from clinical samples obtained from a small cohort of patients who had been infected congenitally with the herpesvirus human cytomegalovirus, with the aim of developing a strategy for identifying high-confidence intrahost variants. We found that such variants were few in number and typically present in low proportions and concluded that human cytomegalovirus exhibits a very low level of intrahost variability. In addition to clarifying the situation regarding human cytomegalovirus, our strategy has wider applicability to understanding the intrahost variability of other viruses.
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- Salvatore Camiolo
- School of Infection and Immunity, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK
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- School of Infection and Immunity, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK
- Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, School of Infection and Immunity, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Department, Fondazione Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Department, Fondazione Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Department, Fondazione Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Neonatal and Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Neonatal and Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Transplant Research Area and Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Department, Fondazione Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- School of Infection and Immunity, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK
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- School of Infection and Immunity, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK
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López-Muñoz AD, Rastrojo A, Martín R, Alcami A. High-throughput engineering of cytoplasmic- and nuclear-replicating large dsDNA viruses by CRISPR/Cas9. J Gen Virol 2022; 103:001797. [PMID: 36260063 PMCID: PMC10019086 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The application of CRISPR/Cas9 to improve genome engineering efficiency for large dsDNA viruses has been extensively described, but a robust and versatile method for high-throughput generation of marker-free recombinants for a desired locus has not yet been reported. Cytoplasmic-replicating viruses use their own repair enzymes for homologous recombination, while nuclear-replicating viruses use the host repair machinery. This is translated into a wide range of Cas9-induced homologous recombination efficiencies, depending on the virus replication compartment and viral/host repair machinery characteristics and accessibility. However, the use of Cas9 as a selection agent to target parental virus genomes robustly improves the selection of desired recombinants across large dsDNA viruses. We used ectromelia virus (ECTV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 and 2 to optimize a CRISPR/Cas9 method that can be used versatilely for efficient genome editing and selection of both cytoplasmic- and nuclear-replicating viruses. We performed a genome-wide genetic variant analysis of mutations located at predicted off-target sequences for 20 different recombinants, showing off-target-free accuracy by deep sequencing. Our results support this optimized method as an efficient, accurate and versatile approach to enhance the two critical factors of high-throughput viral genome engineering: generation and colour-based selection of recombinants. This application of CRISPR/Cas9 reduces the time and labour for screening of desired recombinants, allowing for high-throughput generation of large collections of mutant dsDNA viruses for a desired locus, optimally in less than 2 weeks.
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- Alberto Domingo López-Muñoz
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Present address: Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Present address: Genetic Unit, Department of Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Van Poelvoorde LAE, Delcourt T, Vuylsteke M, De Keersmaecker SCJ, Thomas I, Van Gucht S, Saelens X, Roosens N, Vanneste K. A general approach to identify low-frequency variants within influenza samples collected during routine surveillance. Microb Genom 2022; 8. [PMID: 36169645 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Influenza viruses exhibit considerable diversity between hosts. Additionally, different quasispecies can be found within the same host. High-throughput sequencing technologies can be used to sequence a patient-derived virus population at sufficient depths to identify low-frequency variants (LFV) present in a quasispecies, but many challenges remain for reliable LFV detection because of experimental errors introduced during sample preparation and sequencing. High genomic copy numbers and extensive sequencing depths are required to differentiate false positive from real LFV, especially at low allelic frequencies (AFs). This study proposes a general approach for identifying LFV in patient-derived samples obtained during routine surveillance. Firstly, validated thresholds were determined for LFV detection, whilst balancing both the cost and feasibility of reliable LFV detection in clinical samples. Using a genetically well-defined population of influenza A viruses, thresholds of at least 104 genomes per microlitre and AF of ≥5 % were established as detection limits. Secondly, a subset of 59 retained influenza A (H3N2) samples from the 2016-2017 Belgian influenza season was composed. Thirdly, as a proof of concept for the added value of LFV for routine influenza monitoring, potential associations between patient data and whole genome sequencing data were investigated. A significant association was found between a high prevalence of LFV and disease severity. This study provides a general methodology for influenza LFV detection, which can also be adopted by other national influenza reference centres and for other viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. Additionally, this study suggests that the current relevance of LFV for routine influenza surveillance programmes might be undervalued.
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- Laura A E Van Poelvoorde
- Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, Brussels, Belgium.,National Influenza Centre, Sciensano, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, Brussels, Belgium.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.,VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
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- Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, Brussels, Belgium
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- National Influenza Centre, Sciensano, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, Brussels, Belgium
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- National Influenza Centre, Sciensano, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.,VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
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- Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, Brussels, Belgium
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- Transversal activities in Applied Genomics, Sciensano, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, Brussels, Belgium
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Is the reductionist paradox an Achilles Heel of drug discovery? J Comput Aided Mol Des 2022; 36:329-338. [PMID: 35861913 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-022-00457-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Shao Q, Liu T, Wang W, Liu T, Jin X, Chen Z. Promising Role of Emodin as Therapeutics to Against Viral Infections. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13:902626. [PMID: 35600857 PMCID: PMC9115582 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2022.902626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Emodin is an anthraquinone derivative that is widely present in natural plants and has a wide spectrum of pharmacological effects, such as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-fibrotic and anticancer and so on. Through reviewing studies on antiviral effect of emodin in the past decades, we found that emodin exhibits ability of inhibiting the infection and replication of more than 10 viruses in vitro and in vivo, including herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and type 2 (HSV-2), human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), coxsackievirus B (CVB), hepatitis B virus (HBV), influenza A virus (IAV), SARS-CoV, viral haemorrhagic septicaemia rhabdovirus (VHSV), enterovirus 71 (EV71), dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) and Zika virus (ZIKV). Therefore, this review aims to summarize the antiviral effect of emodin, in order to provide reference and hopes to support the further investigations.
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- Qingqing Shao
- Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
- *Correspondence: Zhuo Chen,
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Liao H, Cai D, Sun Y. VirStrain: a strain identification tool for RNA viruses. Genome Biol 2022; 23:38. [PMID: 35101081 PMCID: PMC8801933 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-022-02609-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Viruses change constantly during replication, leading to high intra-species diversity. Although many changes are neutral or deleterious, some can confer on the virus different biological properties such as better adaptability. In addition, viral genotypes often have associated metadata, such as host residence, which can help with inferring viral transmission during pandemics. Thus, subspecies analysis can provide important insights into virus characterization. Here, we present VirStrain, a tool taking short reads as input with viral strain composition as output. We rigorously test VirStrain on multiple simulated and real virus sequencing datasets. VirStrain outperforms the state-of-the-art tools in both sensitivity and accuracy.
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- Herui Liao
- Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China.
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Javaran VJ, Moffett P, Lemoyne P, Xu D, Adkar-Purushothama CR, Fall ML. Grapevine Virology in the Third-Generation Sequencing Era: From Virus Detection to Viral Epitranscriptomics. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 10:plants10112355. [PMID: 34834718 PMCID: PMC8623739 DOI: 10.3390/plants10112355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 10/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Among all economically important plant species in the world, grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is the most cultivated fruit plant. It has a significant impact on the economies of many countries through wine and fresh and dried fruit production. In recent years, the grape and wine industry has been facing outbreaks of known and emerging viral diseases across the world. Although high-throughput sequencing (HTS) has been used extensively in grapevine virology, the application and potential of third-generation sequencing have not been explored in understanding grapevine viruses and their impact on the grapevine. Nanopore sequencing, a third-generation technology, can be used for the direct sequencing of both RNA and DNA with minimal infrastructure. Compared to other HTS methods, the MinION nanopore platform is faster and more cost-effective and allows for long-read sequencing. Due to the size of the MinION device, it can be easily carried for field viral disease surveillance. This review article discusses grapevine viruses, the principle of third-generation sequencing platforms, and the application of nanopore sequencing technology in grapevine virus detection, virus-plant interactions, as well as the characterization of viral RNA modifications.
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- Vahid Jalali Javaran
- Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC J3B 3E6, Canada; (V.J.J.); (P.L.); (D.X.)
- Département de Biologie, Centre SÈVE, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada;
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- Département de Biologie, Centre SÈVE, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada;
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- Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC J3B 3E6, Canada; (V.J.J.); (P.L.); (D.X.)
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- Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC J3B 3E6, Canada; (V.J.J.); (P.L.); (D.X.)
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- Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine des Sciences de la Santé, 3201 rue Jean-Mignault, Sherbrooke, QC J1E 4K8, Canada;
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- Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC J3B 3E6, Canada; (V.J.J.); (P.L.); (D.X.)
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López-Muñoz AD, Rastrojo A, Martín R, Alcamí A. Herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) evolves faster in cell culture than HSV-1 by generating greater genetic diversity. PLoS Pathog 2021; 17:e1009541. [PMID: 34437654 PMCID: PMC8389525 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2, respectively) are prevalent human pathogens of clinical relevance that establish long-life latency in the nervous system. They have been considered, along with the Herpesviridae family, to exhibit a low level of genetic diversity during viral replication. However, the high ability shown by these viruses to rapidly evolve under different selective pressures does not correlates with that presumed genetic stability. High-throughput sequencing has revealed that heterogeneous or plaque-purified populations of both serotypes contain a broad range of genetic diversity, in terms of number and frequency of minor genetic variants, both in vivo and in vitro. This is reminiscent of the quasispecies phenomenon traditionally associated with RNA viruses. Here, by plaque-purification of two selected viral clones of each viral subtype, we reduced the high level of genetic variability found in the original viral stocks, to more genetically homogeneous populations. After having deeply characterized the genetic diversity present in the purified viral clones as a high confidence baseline, we examined the generation of de novo genetic diversity under culture conditions. We found that both serotypes gradually increased the number of de novo minor variants, as well as their frequency, in two different cell types after just five and ten passages. Remarkably, HSV-2 populations displayed a much higher raise of nonconservative de novo minor variants than the HSV-1 counterparts. Most of these minor variants exhibited a very low frequency in the population, increasing their frequency over sequential passages. These new appeared minor variants largely impacted the coding diversity of HSV-2, and we found some genes more prone to harbor higher variability. These data show that herpesviruses generate de novo genetic diversity differentially under equal in vitro culture conditions. This might have contributed to the evolutionary divergence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 adapting to different anatomical niche, boosted by selective pressures found at each epithelial and neuronal tissue. Herpesviruses are highly human pathogens that establish latency in neurons of the peripheral nervous system. Colonization of nerve endings is required for herpes simplex virus (HSV) persistence and pathogenesis. HSV-1 global prevalence is much higher than HSV-2, in addition to their preferential tendency to infect the oronasal and genital areas, respectively. How these closely related viruses have been adapting and evolving to replicate and colonize these two different anatomical areas remains unclear. Herpesviruses were presumed to mutate much less than viruses with RNA genomes, due to the higher fidelity of the DNA polymerase and proofreading mechanisms when replicating. However, the worldwide accessibility and development of high-throughput sequencing technologies have revealed the heterogenicity and high diversity present in viral populations clinically isolated. Here we show that HSV-2 mutates much faster than HSV-1, when compared under similar and controlled cell culture conditions. This high mutation rate is translated into an increase in coding diversity, since the great majority of these new mutations lead to nonconservative changes in viral proteins. Understanding how herpesviruses differentially mutate under similar selective pressures is critical to prevent resistance to anti-viral drugs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alberto Domingo López-Muñoz
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Madrid, Spain
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Fritz A, Bremges A, Deng ZL, Lesker TR, Götting J, Ganzenmueller T, Sczyrba A, Dilthey A, Klawonn F, McHardy AC. Haploflow: strain-resolved de novo assembly of viral genomes. Genome Biol 2021; 22:212. [PMID: 34281604 PMCID: PMC8287296 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02426-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
AbstractWith viral infections, multiple related viral strains are often present due to coinfection or within-host evolution. We describe Haploflow, a deBruijn graph-based assembler for de novo genome assembly of viral strains from mixed sequence samples using a novel flow algorithm. We assess Haploflow across multiple benchmark data sets of increasing complexity, showing that Haploflow is faster and more accurate than viral haplotype assemblers and generic metagenome assemblers not aiming to reconstruct strains. We show Haploflow reconstructs viral strain genomes from patient HCMV samples and SARS-CoV-2 wastewater samples identical to clinical isolates.
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- Adrian Fritz
- Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
- Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Institute for Medical Virology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- Faculty of Technology and Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University Hospital, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Genome Informatics Section, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
- Biostatistics Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
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