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Li CQ, Hu LQ, Liu GP, Wang Y, Li T, Chen SX, Yang XL, Ma LX, Zeng JG. A duplex nested RT-PCR method for monitoring porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and porcine delta-coronavirus. BMC Vet Res 2023; 19:151. [PMID: 37684673 PMCID: PMC10486053 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-023-03708-y] [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: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) and porcine delta-coronavirus (PDCoV) are economically important pathogens that cause diarrhea in sows and acute death of newborn piglets. Moreover, the emerging PDCoV was reported to infect children. The current situation is that vaccine prevention has not met expectations, and emergency containment strategies following outbreaks cannot prevent the damages and losses already incurred. Therefore, a more sensitive detection method, that is both convenient and enables accurate and effective sequencing, that will provide early warning of PEDV and PDCoV is necessary. This will enable active, effective, and comprehensive prevention and control, which will possibly reduce disease occurrences. RESULTS Duplex nested RT-PCR (dnRT-PCR) is an ideal method to achieve early warning and monitoring of PEDV and PDCoV diseases, and to additionally investigate any molecular epidemiological characteristics. In this study, two pairs of primers were designed for each virus based upon the highly conserved N protein sequences of both PEDV and PDCoV strains retrieved from the NCBI Genbank. After optimization of the reaction conditions, the dnRT-PCR assay amplified a 749-bp fragment specific to PEDV and a 344-bp fragment specific to PDCoV. Meanwhile, the specificity and sensitivity of the primers and clinical samples were tested to verify and establish this dnRT-PCR method. The limit of detection (LoD)for both PEDV and PDCoV was 10 copies/µL. The results showed that among 251 samples, 1 sample contained PEDV infection, 19 samples contained a PDCoV infection, and 8 samples were infected with both viruses, following the use of dnRT-PCR. Subsequently, the positive samples were sent for sequencing, and the sequencing results confirmed that they were all positive for the viruses detected using dnRT-PCR, and conventional RT-PCR detection was conducted again after the onset of disease. As these results were consistent with previous results, a detection method for PEDV and PDCoV using dnRT-PCR was successfully established. In conclusion, the dnRT-PCR method established in this study was able to detect both PEDV and PDCoV, concomitantly. CONCLUSIONS The duplex nested RT-PCR method represents a convenient, reliable, specific, sensitive and anti-interference technique for detecting PEDV and PDCoV, and can additionally be used to simultaneously determine the molecular epidemiological background.
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- Chun Qi Li
- College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Xinzhou Distract, Wuhan, China
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- College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China.
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- College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
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- Hunan Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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Sun J, Zhang Q, Zhang C, Liu Z, Zhang J. Epidemiology of porcine deltacoronavirus among Chinese pig populations in China: systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Vet Sci 2023; 10:1198593. [PMID: 37483295 PMCID: PMC10361067 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1198593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a newly emerging and important porcine enteropathogenic coronavirus that seriously threatens the swine industry in China and worldwide. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to access the prevalence of PDCoV infection in pig population from mainland China. Electronic databases were reviewed for PDCoV infection in pig population, and meta-analysis was performed to calculate the overall estimated prevalence using random-effect models. Thirty-nine studies were included (including data from 31,015 pigs). The overall estimated prevalence of PDCoV infection in pigs in China was 12.2% [95% confidence interval (CI), 10.2-14.2%], and that in Central China was 24.5% (95%CI, 16.1-32.9%), which was higher than those in other regions. During 2014-2021, the estimated prevalence of PDCoV infection was the highest in 2015 at 20.5% (95%CI, 10.1-31.0%) and the lowest in 2021 at 4.8% (95%CI, 2.3-7.3%). The prevalence of PDCoV infection in sows was 23.6% (95%CI, 15.8-31.4%), which was higher than those in suckling piglets, nursery piglets, and finishing pigs. The prevalence of PDCoV infection was significantly associated with sampling region, sampling year, pig stage, and clinical signs (diarrhea). This study systematically evaluated the epidemiology of PDCoV infection in Chinese pig population. The findings provide us with a comprehensive understanding of PDCoV infection and are beneficial for establishing new controlling strategies worldwide.
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- Junying Sun
- Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Livestock Disease Prevention of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China
- Scientific Observation and Experiment Station of Veterinary Drugs and Diagnostic Techniques of Guangdong Province, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Livestock Disease Prevention of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China
- Scientific Observation and Experiment Station of Veterinary Drugs and Diagnostic Techniques of Guangdong Province, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Livestock Disease Prevention of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China
- Scientific Observation and Experiment Station of Veterinary Drugs and Diagnostic Techniques of Guangdong Province, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute of Animal Health, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Livestock Disease Prevention of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, China
- Scientific Observation and Experiment Station of Veterinary Drugs and Diagnostic Techniques of Guangdong Province, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou, China
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Chen R, Wen Y, Yu E, Yang J, Liang Y, Song D, Wen Y, Wu R, Zhao Q, Du S, Yan Q, Han X, Cao S, Huang X. Identification of an immunodominant neutralizing epitope of porcine Deltacoronavirus spike protein. Int J Biol Macromol 2023:125190. [PMID: 37276902 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.125190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2023] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a novel swine enteropathogenic coronavirus that, because of its broad host range, poses a potential threat to public health. Here, to identify the neutralizing B-cell epitopes within the S1-CTD protein, we generated three anti-PDCoV monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). Of these, the antibody designated 4E-3 effectively neutralized PDCoV with an IC50 of 3.155 μg/mL. mAb 4E-3 and one other, mAb 2A-12, recognized different linear B-cell epitopes. The minimal fragment recognized by mAb 4E-3 was mapped to 280FYSDPKSAV288 and designated S280-288, the minimal fragment recognized by mAb 2A-12 was mapped to 506TENNRFTT513, and designated S506-513. Subsequently, alanine (A)-scanning mutagenesis indicated that Asp283, Lys285, and Val288 were the critical residues recognized by mAb 4E-3. The S280-288 epitope induces PDCoV specific neutralizing antibodies in mice, demonstrating that it is a neutralizing epitope. Of note, the S280-288 coupled to Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH) produces PDCoV neutralizing antibodies in vitro and in vivo, in challenged piglets it potentiates interferon-γ responses and provides partial protection against disease. This is the first report about the PDCoV S protein neutralizing epitope, which will contribute to research of PDCoV-related pathogenic mechanism, vaccine design and antiviral drug development.
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- Rui Chen
- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
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- Sichuan Science-Observation Experimental Station for Veterinary Drugs and Veterinary Diagnostic Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; Sichuan Science-Observation Experimental Station for Veterinary Drugs and Veterinary Diagnostic Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Research Center for Swine Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China; Sichuan Science-Observation Experimental Station for Veterinary Drugs and Veterinary Diagnostic Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, Chengdu, 611130, China.
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Wang Z, Li S, Shao Y, Lu Y, Tan C, Cui Y, Ding G, Fu Y, Liu G, Chen J, Hu Y. Genomic characterization and pathogenicity analysis of a porcine deltacoronavirus strain isolated in western China. Arch Virol 2022; 167:2249-2262. [PMID: 36029354 PMCID: PMC9419129 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-022-05549-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is an enteric virus that was first identified in 2012. Although PDCoV has been detected worldwide, there is little information about its circulation in western China. In this study, fecal samples were collected from piglets with watery diarrhea in western China between 2015 and 2018 for the detection of PDCoV. The positive rate was 29.9%. A PDCoV strain (CHN/CQ/BN23/2016, BN23) was isolated and selected for further investigation. Phylogenetic analysis showed that this strain formed an individual cluster between the early Chinese lineage and the Chinese lineage. RDP4 and SimPlot analysis demonstrated that strain BN23 is a recombinant of Thailand/S5015L/2015 and CHN-AH-2004. The pathogenicity of BN23 was evaluated in 3-day-old piglets. Challenged piglets developed serious clinical signs and died at 3 days post-inoculation. Our data show that PDCoV is prevalent in western China and that strain BN23 is highly pathogenic to newborn piglets. Therefore, more attention should be paid to emerging PDCoV strains in western China.
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- Zemei Wang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Ying-Men-Cun, Yin-Tan-Lu, An-Ning District, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China.,State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China.,College of Veterinary Medicine, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, 830052, Xinjiang, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Ying-Men-Cun, Yin-Tan-Lu, An-Ning District, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China.,State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China.,College of Veterinary Medicine, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, 830052, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Ying-Men-Cun, Yin-Tan-Lu, An-Ning District, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China.,State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China.,College of Veterinary Medicine, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, 830052, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1 Xu-Jia-Ping, Yan-Chang-Bu, Cheng-Guan District, Lanzhou, 730046, Gansu, China.
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Ying-Men-Cun, Yin-Tan-Lu, An-Ning District, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China.
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Yang Y, Yuan H, Yang Q, Cai Y, Ren Y, Li Y, Gao C, Zhao S. Post-transcriptional regulation through alternative splicing in the lungs of Tibetan pigs under hypoxia. Gene 2022; 819:146268. [PMID: 35124151 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 01/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In multicellular organisms, alternative splicing (AS) is central to the regulation of multiple biological processes. To further elucidate the adaptive strategy of AS in the lungs of Tibetan pigs in response to hypoxia, we identified and analyzed five basic AS types and 59,930 AS events in 18,179 genes. We found that approximately 65.10% of the total expressed genes underwent AS in the lungs of Tibetan pigs at a high altitude (TH). The frequencies of AS events were similar among the different groups (5.06-5.30 events in each gene on average). Skipped exons (SEs) were the predominant type of AS event, followed by mutually exclusive exons (MXEs), alternative 3' splice sites (A3SSs) and alternative 5' splice sites (A5SSs). Retained introns (RIs), the remaining type of AS event, showed lower frequencies. Further comparison analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and differentially spliced genes (DSGs) identified 2,209 differential splicing events in the above 18,000 expressed genes, including 918 increased and 1,291 decreased splicing events between the TH and Tibetan pigs at a low altitude (TL) groups. We identified 227 hypoxia-related genes involved in lung development that were differentially regulated through AS. Gene Ontology (GO) annotation and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis clearly identified many DEGs and DSGs at high or low altitude. Seven pathways in the top 20 enriched KEGG terms overlapped for the DEGs and DSGs, including the chemokine signaling pathway, B cell receptor signaling pathway, and cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction, which exert many immunoregulatory and inflammatory actions critical to the lung under hypoxia. Twelve pathways overlapped in hypoxic DEGs and DSGs and included antigen processing, presentation and biosynthesis. GO analysis of the DEGs and DSGs among the four groups showed that numerous GO terms were enriched in the biological category, and the proportion of genes with downregulated expression was greater among 227 hypoxic genes than that of all genes. The results suggest that AS plays an essential role in the regulation of gene expression during hypoxia and that numerous genes involved in lung development are differentially regulated through AS.
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- Yanan Yang
- College of Animal Science & Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Sciences, Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Lhasa, Xizang, China
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- Xinjiang Academy of Animal Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Animal Science & Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
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Pan Y, Qiu S, Chen R, Zhang T, Liang L, Wang M, Baloch AR, Wang L, Zhang Q, Yu S. Molecular detection and phylogenetic analysis of porcine circovirus type 3 in Tibetan pigs on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Virol J 2022; 19:64. [PMID: 35392945 PMCID: PMC8991800 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-022-01792-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Background Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) has been confirmed to infect pigs, posing a health risk and making pigs more susceptible to other pathogens. After the first report of PCV3 infection in the United States, its prevalence was determined in pigs suffering from clinical digestive or respiratory diseases in several other regions, including the Sichuan and Gansu provinces of China. In this study, we describe the frequency of PCV3 detection in Tibetan pigs inhabiting three different provinces surrounding the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Methods A total of 316 samples from diarrheic animals and 182 samples from healthy animals were collected in a randomized manner. Conventional PCR was applied for PCV3 DNA detection. The conserved regions of the PCV3 gene were analyzed with MEGA 7.1 software to design specific primers to sequence entire Cap genes in PCV3 strains, and the sequences were then used to confirm the subtypes of PCV3 in the positive samples. Prediction of the amino acid sequences by nucleotide sequence translation was also performed to compare the point mutations in the entire Cap protein. Twenty PCV3 whole-genomic sequences were used for genome phylogenetic analyses of PCV3 and sequence alignments with 22 other reference strains. Results We found that the prevalence of the virus was significantly higher in samples from pigs with diarrhoea than that in samples from healthy pigs. Phylogenetic analysis of Cap proteins demonstrated that the 20 PCV3 strains formed three clades, including PCV3a (8/20, 40.00%), PCV3b (5/20, 25%) and PCV3c (7/20, 35.00%). The complete genome sequence revealed that these strains formed one branch in the phylogenetic tree. Sequence analysis showed that the Cap proteins of the 20 different viral strains shared between 95.84 and 99.18% nucleotide identity. Cap protein sequence analyses showed that the positivity rate of PCV3a was highest in the samples from pigs with diarrhoea. In comparison, PCV3c was the most elevated subtype in the healthy samples. There was no mutation at a specific site in the amino acid sequences of the entire Cap protein from different PCV3 subtype strains from heathy samples. There was a mutation at site 113 in PCV3a, site 129 in PCV3b, and site 116 in PCV3c. Conclusion Our present data provide evidence that PCV3 is prevalent in Tibetan pigs at high altitudes in China, and the higher prevalence rates of the PCV3a and PCV3b subtypes in samples from pigs with diarrhoea further indicate that the genotypes should not be neglected during surveys of the pathogenicity of PCV3. Phylogenetic and genetic diversity analyses suggested that the continuous evolution, adaptation and mechanisms of pathogenicity of PCV3 in Tibetan pigs living in this special environment should be further studied.
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- Yangyang Pan
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, 730070, Gansu, China.
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Kong F, Wang Q, Kenney SP, Jung K, Vlasova AN, Saif LJ. Porcine Deltacoronaviruses: Origin, Evolution, Cross-Species Transmission and Zoonotic Potential. Pathogens 2022; 11:79. [PMID: 35056027 PMCID: PMC8778258 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11010079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Revised: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is an emerging enteropathogenic coronavirus of swine that causes acute diarrhoea, vomiting, dehydration and mortality in seronegative neonatal piglets. PDCoV was first reported in Hong Kong in 2012 and its etiological features were first characterized in the United States in 2014. Currently, PDCoV is a concern due to its broad host range, including humans. Chickens, turkey poults, and gnotobiotic calves can be experimentally infected by PDCoV. Therefore, as discussed in this review, a comprehensive understanding of the origin, evolution, cross-species transmission and zoonotic potential of epidemic PDCoV strains is urgently needed.
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- Fanzhi Kong
- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, No. 5 Xinfeng Road, Sartu District, Daqing 163319, China;
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- Center for Food Animal Health, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA; (S.P.K.); (K.J.); (A.N.V.); (L.J.S.)
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for Food Animal Health, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA; (S.P.K.); (K.J.); (A.N.V.); (L.J.S.)
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for Food Animal Health, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA; (S.P.K.); (K.J.); (A.N.V.); (L.J.S.)
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for Food Animal Health, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA; (S.P.K.); (K.J.); (A.N.V.); (L.J.S.)
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for Food Animal Health, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA; (S.P.K.); (K.J.); (A.N.V.); (L.J.S.)
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Yang Y, Yuan H, Yang T, Li Y, Gao C, Jiao T, Cai Y, Zhao S. The Expression Regulatory Network in the Lung Tissue of Tibetan Pigs Provides Insight Into Hypoxia-Sensitive Pathways in High-Altitude Hypoxia. Front Genet 2021; 12:691592. [PMID: 34691141 PMCID: PMC8529057 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.691592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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To adapt to a low-oxygen environment, Tibetan pigs have developed a series of unique characteristics and can transport oxygen more effectively; however, the regulation of the associated processes in high-altitude animals remains elusive. We performed mRNA-seq and miRNA-seq, and we constructed coexpression regulatory networks of the lung tissues of Tibetan and Landrace pigs. HBB, AGT, COL1A2, and EPHX1 were identified as major regulators of hypoxia-induced genes that regulate blood pressure and circulation, and they were enriched in pathways related to signal transduction and angiogenesis, such as HIF-1, PI3K-Akt, mTOR, and AMPK. HBB may promote the combination of hemoglobin and oxygen as well as angiogenesis for high-altitude adaptation in Tibetan pigs. The expression of MMP2 showed a similar tendency of alveolar septum thickness among the four groups. These results indicated that MMP2 activity may lead to widening of the alveolar wall and septum, alveolar structure damage, and collapse of alveolar space with remarkable fibrosis. These findings provide a perspective on hypoxia-adaptive genes in the lungs in addition to insights into potential candidate genes in Tibetan pigs for further research in the field of high-altitude adaptation.
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- Yanan Yang
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- Research on Quality Standard of Animal Husbandry, Xinjiang Academy of Animal Sciences, Xinjiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China.,College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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Tang P, Cui E, Song Y, Yan R, Wang J. Porcine deltacoronavirus and its prevalence in China: a review of epidemiology, evolution, and vaccine development. Arch Virol 2021; 166:2975-2988. [PMID: 34524535 PMCID: PMC8440736 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-021-05226-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is one of the most important enteropathogenic pathogens, and it causes enormous economic losses to the global commercial pork industry. PDCoV was initially reported in Hong Kong (China) in 2012 and subsequently emerged in swine herds with diarrhea in Ohio (USA) in 2014. Since then, it has spread to Canada, South Korea, mainland China, and several Southeast Asian countries. Information about the epidemiology, evolution, prevention, and control of PDCoV and its prevalence in China has not been comprehensively reported, especially in the last five years. This review is an update of current information on the general characteristics, epidemiology, geographical distribution, and evolutionary relationships, and the status of PDCoV vaccine development, focusing on the prevalence of PDCoV in China and vaccine research in particular. Together, this information will provide us with a greater understanding of PDCoV infection and will be helpful for establishing new strategies for controlling this virus worldwide.
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- Pan Tang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- Henan Centre for Animal Diseases Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, China.
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.
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Zhang H, Han F, Yan X, Liu L, Shu X, Hu H. Prevalence and phylogenetic analysis of spike gene of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in Henan province, China in 2015-2019. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2021; 88:104709. [PMID: 33412288 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2021.104709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2020] [Revised: 11/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) causes diarrhea, dehydration and a high morbidity and mortality in piglets. To investigate the prevalence and molecular characteristics of the spike (S) gene of the PEDV strains, 575 faecal and intestinal samples were collected from individual pigs with diarrhea in 18 regions in Henan, China from April 2015 to March 2019. The detection results showed that PEDV infection was high up to 51.65% in Henan pigs. The PEDV positive rate in suckling piglets was the highest (60.47%), and it existed widely both in PEDV-vaccine immunized (25.00%) and non-immunized pigs (62.29%). The complete S gene of twenty-two representative PEDV strains were sequenced and analyzed. Phylogenetic analysis based on the S gene sequences revealed that the sixteen of the sequenced PEDV Henan strains were located in the G2-a clade and more related to the PEDV variant strains. The other six of the sequenced PEDV strains were closely related to S-INDEL strains and grouped within in the G1-b clade. The Recombinant Identification Program (RIP) and Simplot analysis showed PEDV Henan strains were evolved from the epidemic variant strains and there existed potential recombinant points in the S genome. Furthermore, the deduced amino acid sequences analysis of the S protein showed that there existed multiple amino acid mutations in the S protein of PEDV Henan strains, including the neutralizing epitope CO-26 K equivalent (COE) and SS6 when compared with the CV777-based vaccine strain. These amino acid mutations in the S protein may change the antigenicity in the PEDV Henan variants, leading to the failure of immunization with the traditional vaccine based on the CV777 strain. These results would support the understanding of the prevalence and evolution characteristics of PEDV in China and promote the development of novel vaccines based on the current prevalence variant strains.
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- Honglei Zhang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, China; Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, China; Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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Zhou L, Hu C, Zhou Q, Yang D, Wang L, Zhang B. Viral communities associated with porcine diarrhoeal disease and genetic characterization of a bufavirus in Tibetan pigs in China. Arch Virol 2021; 166:613-617. [PMID: 33389103 PMCID: PMC7778721 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-020-04932-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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To investigate the viral communities in diarrhoeal faeces of Tibetan pigs, 146 diarrhoeic samples were collected from 16 pigs farms on the Tibetan plateau. Nineteen viruses belonging to eleven viral taxonomic families were identified in a pooled library. Metagenomics analysis revealed that the viruses were mainly small linear and circular DNA viruses. Furthermore, sequences of 10 NS1 genes and two complete genomes of PBuVs were obtained by PCR amplification. Sequence comparisons and phylogenetic analysis showed that the PBuVs from Tibetan pigs displayed more abundant genetic diversity than those from domestic pigs. This is the first description of the faecal viral community in Tibetan pigs associated with diarrhoea.
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- Long Zhou
- College of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R. China
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- College of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R. China
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- College of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R. China
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- Institute of Animal Science of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, Kangding, 626000, P.R. China
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- College of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R. China
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- College of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R. China.
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Prevalence and phylogenetic analysis of porcine deltacoronavirus in Sichuan province, China. Arch Virol 2020; 165:2883-2889. [PMID: 32892248 PMCID: PMC7474797 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-020-04796-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In order to understand the prevalence and genetic diversity of porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) in diarrhoeal pigs in Sichuan province, 634 clinical samples were collected from individual pigs with diarrhoea in 13 regions of Sichuan province, China, from January 2017 and June 2019. The detection results showed that the infection rate of PDCoV was relatively low in diarrhoeal pigs, 13.25% (84/634), but the infection rate of PEDV (porcine epidemic diarrhea virus) was high, 32.18% (204/634). Coinfection with PEDV was common (55.95%, 47/84) in PDCoV-infected diarrhoeal pigs. Additionally, the chance of PDCoV infection was 2.77 times higher in suckling piglets than in sows, and about 3.30 times higher in spring and winter than in summer. PDCoV/PEDV coinfection was 75% less likely in sows than in suckling piglets. The complete genomes of four Sichuan PDCoV strains were sequenced and analysed. There were some insertion-deletion signatures in the whole genome sequences of four strains, including a 6-nt deletion in the non-structural gene 2 region, a 9-nt insertion in the non-structural gene 3 region, a 3-nt deletion in the S gene region, and a distinguishing 11-nt deletion in the 3'UTR region. Phylogenetic analysis based on complete genome sequences revealed that the PDCoV Sichuan strains were closely related to other Chinese PDCoV reference strains; however, phylogenetic analysis based on S gene sequences showed that the CH/SC/2019 strain clustered in a large clade with strains from the USA, Japan, and Korea. These data advance our understanding of the genetic diversity and evolutionary characteristics of PDCoV in China and may contribute to vaccine development.
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Huang H, Yin Y, Wang W, Cao L, Sun W, Shi K, Lu H, Jin N. Emergence of Thailand-like strains of porcine deltacoronavirus in Guangxi Province, China. Vet Med Sci 2020; 6:854-859. [PMID: 32419393 PMCID: PMC7738719 DOI: 10.1002/vms3.283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Revised: 04/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) has been detected sporadically in China since its first description in 2012. In our study, 62 faecal and intestinal samples from pigs with diarrhoea were collected in Guangxi Province, China, during 2017 and 2018. Twelve samples (19.4%, 12/62) were positive for PDCoV. Five complete genomes of PDCoV were then determined, and sequence alignment revealed that the five strains had discontinuous deletions at 400–401 aa in non‐structural protein 2 (NSP2) and 758–760 aa in non‐structural protein 3 (NSP3) compared with the respective proteins in the HKU15‐44 strain. Notably, the CHN‐GX81‐2018 strain contained two insertions in the S gene and 3′‐UTR. Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis showed that four strains shared 98.2%–98.4% nucleotide identity with CHN‐AH‐2004 and were classified into a new cluster of China lineage strains, whereas the CHN‐GX81‐2018 strain shared 98.7% nucleotide identity with Vietnam/Binh21/2015 and belonged to the Vietnam/Laos/Thailand lineage. Recombination analyses revealed that four strains were the result of recombination between CHN‐HB‐2014 and Vietnam/Binh21/2015 strains. This study demonstrated the co‐existence of multiple lineages of PDCoV in China, and our findings will aid the reorganization and evolution of the virus.
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- Haixin Huang
- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.,Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Guangxi Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, China.,College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.,Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Guangxi Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.,Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, China
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Ye X, Chen Y, Zhu X, Guo J, Da X, Hou Z, Xu S, Zhou J, Fang L, Wang D, Xiao S. Cross-Species Transmission of Deltacoronavirus and the Origin of Porcine Deltacoronavirus. Evol Appl 2020; 13:2246-2253. [PMID: 32837537 PMCID: PMC7273114 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Deltacoronavirus is the last identified Coronaviridae subfamily genus. Differing from other coronavirus (CoV) genera, which mainly infect birds or mammals, deltacoronaviruses (δ‐CoVs) reportedly infect both animal types. Recent studies show that a novel δ‐CoV, porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV), can also infect calves and chickens with the potential to infect humans, raising the possibility of cross‐species transmission of δ‐CoVs. Here, we explored the deep phylogenetic history and cross‐species transmission of δ‐CoVs. Virus–host cophylogenetic analyses showed that δ‐CoVs have undergone frequent host switches in birds, and sparrows may serve as the unappreciated hubs for avian to mammal transmission. Our molecular clock analyses show that PDCoV possibly originated in Southeast Asia in the 1990s and that the PDCoV cluster shares a common ancestor with Sparrow‐CoV of around 1,810. Our findings contribute valuable insights into the diversification, evolution, and interspecies transmission of δ‐CoVs and the origin of PDCoV, providing a model for exploring the relationships of δ‐CoVs in birds and mammals.
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- Xu Ye
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology College of Veterinary Medicine Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan 430070 China.,The Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production Wuhan 430070 China
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Tan L, Li Y, He J, Hu Y, Cai X, Liu W, Liu T, Wang J, Li Z, Yuan X, Zhan Y, Yang L, Deng Z, Wang N, Yang Y, Wang A. Epidemic and genetic characterization of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus strains circulating in the regions around Hunan, China, during 2017-2018. Arch Virol 2020; 165:877-889. [PMID: 32056002 PMCID: PMC7223731 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-020-04532-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) caused by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) infection have caused high mortality of piglets and significant economic losses to the Chinese swine industry. In the current study, 184 specimens from pigs with or without signs of diarrhea were collected from 39 farms across eight provinces, mainly around Hunan, People's Republic of China, in 2017 to 2018 in order to obtain epidemiological information on PEDV infections in these regions. The results indicated an average PEDV-positive rate of 38.04% (70/184) and more-pronounced disease severity in diarrheic pigs (48.76%; 59/121) than in non-diarrheic pigs (17.46%; 11/63). Phylogenetic and sequence analysis demonstrated that 14 representative PEDV strains from 14 swine farms belonged to the G2 group (G2-a and G2-b subgroups) and displayed a high degree of genetic variation. In particular, two out of the 14 PEDV strains were found to have unique indels in the S1 gene. The strain HN-SY-2017-Oct had a 9-nucleotide (T1152GAAGCCAAT1160T) insertion, and the strain ZJ-2018-May had a 3-nucleotide (AAA) deletion at position 1126 in the S1 gene. A three-dimensional structural prediction revealed that these unique insertions might lengthen the loop on the surface or increase the likelihood of the surface protein being phosphorylated at 388Y, thereby affecting the virulence or pathogenicity of PEDV. Collectively, the data show that PED remains a severe threat to the pig industry and that variant PEDV stains are circulating in China. The updated PEDV epidemiological data will facilitate the design of PEDV vaccines and the application of effective measures for PED prevention.
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- Lei Tan
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Innovation and Applied Research in Chinese Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, 410208, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering in Animal Vaccines, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University (HUNAU), No. 1 Nongda road, Furong District, Changsha, 410128, People's Republic of China. .,PCB Biotechnology LLC, Rockville, MD, 20852, USA.
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Sun W, Wang L, Huang H, Wang W, Cao L, Zhang J, Zheng M, Lu H. Genetic characterization and phylogenetic analysis of porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) in Shandong Province, China. Virus Res 2020; 278:197869. [PMID: 31962065 PMCID: PMC7114949 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2020.197869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 10/30/2022]
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is the etiological agent of acute diarrhoea and vomiting in pigs, threatening the swine industry worldwide. Although several PDCoV studies have been conducted in China, more sequence information is needed to understand the molecular characterization of PDCoV. In this study, the partial ORF1a, spike protein (S) and nucleocapsid protein (N) were sequenced from Shandong Province between 2017 and 2018. The sequencing results for the S protein from 10 PDCoV strains showed 96.7 %-99.7 % nucleotide sequence identity with the China lineage strains, while sharing a lower level of nucleotide sequence identity, ranging from 95.7 to 96.8%, with the Vietnam/Laos/Thailand lineage strains. N protein sequencing analysis showed that these strains showed nucleotide homologies of 97.3%-99.3% with the reference strains. Phylogenetic analyses based on S protein sequences showed that these PDCoV strains were classified into the China lineage. The discontinuous 2 + 3 aa deletions at 400-401 and 758-760 were found in the Nsp2 and Nsp3 coding region in five strains, respectively, with similar deletions having been identified in Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos. Three novel patterns of deletion were observed for the first time in the Nsp2 and Nsp3 regions. Importantly, those findings suggest that PDCoV may have undergone a high degree of variation since PDCoV was first detected in China.
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- Wenchao Sun
- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China
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- Shandong New Hope Liuhe Group Company, Qingdao, 266100, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, The Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, The Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, 130122, China
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- Institute of Military Veterinary Medicine, The Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, 130122, China
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- Guangxi Centre for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Nanning, 530001, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China.
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Characterization and Pathogenicity of the Porcine Deltacoronavirus Isolated in Southwest China. Viruses 2019; 11:v11111074. [PMID: 31752115 PMCID: PMC6893596 DOI: 10.3390/v11111074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a newly emerging enteric pathogen in swine that causes diarrhea in neonatal piglets and creates an additional economic burden on porcine industries in Asia and North America. In this study, a PDCoV isolate, CHN-SC2015, was isolated from Sichuan Province in southwest China. The isolate was characterized by a cytopathic effect, immunofluorescence, and electron microscopy. CHN-SC2015 titers in LLC-PK cells ranged from 104.31 to 108.22 TCID50/mL during the first 30 passages. During serial passage, 11 nucleotide mutations occurred in the S gene, resulting in nine amino acid changes. A whole genome sequencing analysis demonstrated that CHN-SC2015 shares 97.5%-99.1% identity with 59 reference strains in GenBank. Furthermore, CHN-SC2015 contained 6-nt deletion and 9-nt insertion in the ORF1ab gene, 3-nt deletion in the S gene and 11-nt deletion in its 3'UTR compared with other reference strains available in GenBank. A phylogenetic analysis showed that CHN-SC2015 is more closely related to other PDCoV strains in China than to the strains from Southeast Asia, USA, Japan, and South Korea, indicating the diversity of genetic relationships and regional and epidemic characteristics among these strains. A recombination analysis indicated that CHN-SC2015 experienced recombination events between SHJS/SL/2016 and TT-1115. In vivo infection demonstrated that CHN-SC2015 is highly pathogenic to sucking piglets, causing diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, and death. Virus was shed daily in the feces of infected piglets and upon necropsy, was found distributed in the gastrointestinal tract and in multiple organs. CHN-SC2015 is the first systematically characterized strain from southwest China hitherto reported. Our results enrich the body of information on the epidemiology, pathogenicity and molecular evolution associated with PDCoV.
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The Porcine Deltacoronavirus Replication Organelle Comprises Double-Membrane Vesicles and Zippered Endoplasmic Reticulum with Double-Membrane Spherules. Viruses 2019; 11:v11111030. [PMID: 31694296 PMCID: PMC6893519 DOI: 10.3390/v11111030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) was first identified in Hong Kong in 2012 from samples taken from pigs in 2009. PDCoV was subsequently identified in the USA in 2014 in pigs with a history of severe diarrhea. The virus has now been detected in pigs in several countries around the world. Following the development of tissue culture adapted strains of PDCoV, it is now possible to address questions regarding virus-host cell interactions for this genera of coronavirus. Here, we presented a detailed study of PDCoV-induced replication organelles. All positive-strand RNA viruses induce the rearrangement of cellular membranes during virus replication to support viral RNA synthesis, forming the replication organelle. Replication organelles for the Alpha-, Beta-, and Gammacoronavirus genera have been characterized. All coronavirus genera induced the formation of double-membrane vesicles (DMVs). In addition, Alpha- and Betacoronaviruses induce the formation of convoluted membranes, while Gammacoronaviruses induce the formation of zippered endoplasmic reticulum (ER) with tethered double-membrane spherules. However, the structures induced by Deltacoronaviruses, particularly the presence of convoluted membranes or double-membrane spherules, are unknown. Initially, the dynamics of PDCoV strain OH-FD22 replication were assessed with the onset of viral RNA synthesis, protein synthesis, and progeny particle release determined. Subsequently, virus-induced membrane rearrangements were identified in infected cells by electron microscopy. As has been observed for all other coronaviruses studied to date, PDCoV replication was found to induce the formation of double-membrane vesicles. Significantly, however, PDCoV replication was also found to induce the formation of regions of zippered endoplasmic reticulum, small associated tethered vesicles, and double-membrane spherules. These structures strongly resemble the replication organelle induced by avian Gammacoronavirus infectious bronchitis virus.
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Hepatitis E virus in Tibetan pigs on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: detection, molecular characterization and infection of BALB/c mice. Arch Virol 2019; 164:2943-2951. [PMID: 31549302 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-019-04410-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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This study was performed to investigate the prevalence and genetic variation of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Tibetan pigs and to determine its ability to infect mice. A total of 38 out of 229 (16.59%; 95% CI = 12.00%-22.10%) fecal samples from Tibetan pigs from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in 2018 were positive for HEV RNA, which was detected by RT-nPCR. Significantly different detection rates were observed between samples from diarrheic and clinically healthy animals (OR = 9.56; 95% CI, 2.84-32.14; p < 0.001), suggesting a potential association between HEV infection and diarrhea in Tibetan pigs. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the HEV isolates were clustered into subtypes 4a (31 samples), 4b (1), 4d (2), and 4j (4). HEV-4a was the predominant subtype, indicating that it might be circulating in Tibetan pigs. Nine complete HEV genome sequences obtained from Tibetan pigs were found by phylogenetic analysis to be closely related to those of genotype 4 HEV isolates from humans. Two recombinant events were identified in both HEV-4a strains; a novel recombination breakpoint was first identified at the 3' end of the ORF2 region in the SWU/L9/2018 strain, and a common recombination region was found at the junction of the ORF1 and ORF2 regions in the SWU/31-12/2018 strain. Furthermore, HEV-4a could be detected in all BALB/c mice that were experimentally infected by gavage and contact exposure. The information presented here about the prevalence and genotype diversity of HEV from Tibetan pigs provides important insights into the epidemic features of HEV on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.
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Qin S, Hu C, Yang D, Wu J, Yue H, Tang C, Zhang B. Emergence of porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses with the novel S genes in Tibetan pigs in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in China. Virus Res 2019; 270:197652. [PMID: 31301333 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2019.197652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 06/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The purpose of present study was to investigate the prevalence and genetic variation of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in Tibetan pigs on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in 2018. The PCR yielded a significantly high detection rate (38.34%, 95%CI=31.5-45.6%) for PEDV from 193 fecal samples from Tibetan pigs. The novel PEDVs were discovered in Tibetan pigs and seven complete S genes were obtained and analyzed. The unique multiple mutations were detected in S genes of PEDV from Tibetan pigs, one of which led to a new amino acid substitution of a neutralizing epitope. Phylogenetic analysis showed that seven S genes had significant genetic distance to other PEDV. Specially, two S genes formed a novel subgroup on the genogroup 2 (G2) branch, of which same recombination event occurred between different strains from genotype G2. The remaining five S genes formed a new subgroup on the G1 branch, among which distinct recombination events occurred between genotypes G1 and G2 strains. The result indicated that the new recombination events were detected in the S genes of PEDV from Tibetan pigs, which could be circulating in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Notably, the four complete PEDV genomes obtained in this study had an identical recombination region spanning S2, ORF3 and E genes. This is the first report of the crossover regional recombination event in PEDV genome. Our findings not only augmented current understanding of the genetic evolution of PEDV, but also indicated that new variants of PEDV strains have been emerging in Tibetan pigs.
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- Sinan Qin
- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China; Institute of Animal Science of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, Kangding 626000, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China; Institute of Animal Science of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, Kangding 626000, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China; Key laboratory of Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province for Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Animal Genetic Resource Reservation and Utilization, Chengdu 610041, China; Animal Disease Prevention and Control Innovation Team in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Chengdu 610041, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China; Key laboratory of Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province for Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Animal Genetic Resource Reservation and Utilization, Chengdu 610041, China; Animal Disease Prevention and Control Innovation Team in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Chengdu 610041, China.
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China; Key laboratory of Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province for Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Animal Genetic Resource Reservation and Utilization, Chengdu 610041, China; Animal Disease Prevention and Control Innovation Team in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Chengdu 610041, China.
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Zhang H, Liang Q, Li B, Cui X, Wei X, Ding Q, Wang Y, Hu H. Prevalence, phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis of porcine deltacoronavirus in Henan province, China. Prev Vet Med 2019; 166:8-15. [PMID: 30935509 PMCID: PMC7114282 DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2018] [Revised: 02/23/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a novel porcine enteric coronavirus that causes diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration in piglets. This newly virus has spread rapidly and has caused serious economic losses for pig industry since the outbreak in USA in 2014. In this study, 430 faecal and intestinal samples (143 faecal samples and 287 intestinal samples) were collected from individual pigs with diarrhea and 211 serum samples were also collected from the sows with mild diarrhea in 17 regions in Henan province, China from April 2015 to March 2018. The RT-PCR detection indicated that the infection of PDCoV was high up to 23.49% (101/430), and co-infection with PEDV were common (60.40%, 61/101) in Henan pigs. The prevalence of PDCoV in suckling piglets was the highest (36.43%, 94/258). We also found that PDCoV could be detected in sows faeces and sera while the sows showed mild, self-limited diarrhea in clinic. The complete genomes of 4 PDCoV Henan strains (CH-01, HNZK-02, HNZK-04, HNZK-06) were sequenced and analyzed. Phylogenetic analysis based on the complete genome, spike and nucleocapsid gene sequences revealed that the PDCoV Henan strains were closely related to other PDCoV reference strains that located in the Chinese clade. Furthermore, the phylogenetic analysis showed PDCoV CH-01 strain was closely related to CHN-HB-2014 strain and HKU15-44 strain, while the other PDCoV Henan strains were more related to PDCoV CHJXNI2 and CH-SXD1-2015 strains, indicating that the ancestor of these sequenced strains may different. These results would support the understanding of the prevalence and evolution characteristics of PDCoV in China.
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- Honglei Zhang
- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China; Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China; Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, 450002, China.
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- College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, Henan, China; Key Laboratory for Animal-derived Food Safety of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, 450002, China.
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Zhang Y, Cheng Y, Xing G, Yu J, Liao A, Du L, Lei J, Lian X, Zhou J, Gu J. Detection and spike gene characterization in porcine deltacoronavirus in China during 2016-2018. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2019; 73:151-158. [PMID: 31026605 PMCID: PMC7106087 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Revised: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) has been emerging in several swine-producing countries for years. In our study, 719 porcine diarrhoea samples from 18 provinces in China were collected for PDCoV and porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) detection. The epidemiological survey revealed that the positive rates of PDCoV, PEDV and coinfection were 13.07%, 36.72% and 4.73%, respectively. The entire spike (S) genes of eleven detected PDCoV strains were sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the majority of PDCoVs could be divided into three lineages: the China lineage, the USA/Japan/South Korea lineage and the Viet Nam/Laos/Thailand lineage. The China and the Viet Nam/Laos/Thailand lineages showed much greater genetic divergences than the USA/Japan/South Korea lineage. The present study detected one new monophyletic branch that contained three PDCoVs from China, and this branch was separated from the China lineage but closely related to the Viet Nam/Laos/Thailand lineage. The strain CH-HA2-2017, which belongs to this new branch, had a possible recombination event between positions 27 and 1234. Significant amino acid substitutions of PDCoV S proteins were analysed and displayed with a three-dimensional cartoon diagram. The visual spatial location of these substitutions gave a conformational-based reference for further studies on the significance of critical sites on the PDCoV S protein. The majority of global PDCoVs could be divided into three lineages. Three sequenced PDCoVs from China were closely related to the Viet Nam/Laos/Thailand lineage. The China lineage showed the greatest genetic divergence. One sequenced strain CH-HA2–2017 had a possible recombination event.
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- Yu Zhang
- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- MOA key laboratory of Animal Virology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Ma'anshan Shiji Animal Health Management Co. Ltd, Anhui, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- MOA key laboratory of Animal Virology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China; MOA key laboratory of Animal Virology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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Wang M, Wang Y, Baloch AR, Pan Y, Tian L, Xu F, Shivaramu S, Chen S, Zeng Q. Detection and genetic characterization of porcine deltacoronavirus in Tibetan pigs surrounding the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Transbound Emerg Dis 2018; 65:363-369. [PMID: 29363281 PMCID: PMC7169672 DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a recently discovered RNA virus that belongs to the family Coronaviridae and genus Deltacoronavirus. This virus causes enteric disease in piglets that is characterized by enteritis and diarrhoea. In our present investigation, 189 diarrhoeic samples were collected between July 2016 and May 2017 from Tibetan pigs inhabiting in three different provinces surrounding the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau of China. We then applied the molecular‐based method of reverse transcription polymerase chain reactions (RT‐PCRs) to detect the presence of PDCoV in collected samples, and RT‐PCR indicated that the prevalence of PDCoV was 3.70% (7/189) in Tibetan pigs. Four of 7 PDCoV‐positive pigs were monoinfections of PDCoV, three samples were co‐infections of PDCoV with porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV), and 52 (27.51%) samples were positive for PEDV. Four strains with different full‐length genomes were identified (CHN/GS/2016/1, CHN/GS/2016/2, CHN/GS‐/2017/1 and CHN/QH/2017/1), and their genomes were used to analyse the characteristics of PDCoV currently prevalent in Tibetan pigs. We found a 3‐nt insertion in the spike gene in four strains in Tibetan pigs. Phylogenetic analysis of the complete genome and spike and nucleocapsid gene sequences revealed that these strains shared ancestors with the strain CHN‐AH‐2004, which was found in pigs from the Anhui province of China mainland. However, PDCoV strains from Tibetan pigs formed different branches within the same cluster, implying continuous evolution in the field. Our present findings highlight the importance of epidemiologic surveillance to limit the spread of PDCoV in livestock at high altitudes in China.
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- M Wang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Anning Branch Lanzhou General Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Vodňany, Czech Republic
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Vodňany, Czech Republic
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- Veterinary Department of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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