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Suptawiwat O, Ninpan K, Boonarkart C, Ruangrung K, Auewarakul P. Evolutionary dynamic of antigenic residues on influenza B hemagglutinin. Virology 2017; 502:84-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2016] [Revised: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Jumat MR, Sugrue RJ, Tan BH. Genetic characterisation of influenza B viruses detected in Singapore, 2004 to 2009. BMC Res Notes 2014; 7:863. [PMID: 25435177 PMCID: PMC4265450 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Accepted: 11/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Influenza B viruses are classified into two main lineages: Yamagata-like and Victoria-like, which differ antigenically and phylogenetically. To understand the evolution of influenza B viruses in South East Asia as well as to determine the vaccine efficacy, we genetically characterised gene segments 4, 6 and 8 from non-tissue culture adapted influenza B viruses detected in Singapore from 2004 to 2009. METHODS vRNA were extracted from the nasopharyngeal swabs or nasal washes of SAF servicemen displaying febrile and respiratory symptoms, and subjected to PCR assay to test for the presence of influenza B virus. The PCR-positive specimens were next subjected to sequencing of the full gene segments 4 (HA), 6 (NA/NB) and 8 (NS1/NEP). The nucleotide sequences were aligned together with that of other specimens isolated from South East Asia as well as the vaccine strains. Phylogenetic trees of each gene segment were constructed and the amino acid alignments were analysed. RESULTS A majority of the Singaporean specimens analysed in this study, from 2004-2009, had gene segment 4 from the Victoria-like lineage and gene segment 6 from Yamagata-like lineage. Some of these specimens had both gene segments from the Yamagata lineage and this resulted in several vaccine mismatches. Gene segment 8 from majority of these specimens clustered separately from both the Yamagata and Victoria strains. The HA protein of most of the Singaporean specimens isolated post 2000 contained a glycosylation site at position 211, which was not dominant prior to 2000. No amino acid substitution conferring drug-resistance was found in either the HA or NA proteins. CONCLUSIONS The presence of both lineages co-circulating post 2000, suggests that a trivalent vaccine is not enough to confer immunity to the general public, strongly endorsing the inclusion of both lineages in the vaccine. Several amino acid substitutions were observed, prompting in depth functional analyses.
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- Muhammad Raihan Jumat
- />Division of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551 Republic of Singapore
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- />Division of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637551 Republic of Singapore
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- />Detection and Diagnostics Laboratory, Defence Medical and Environmental Institute, DSO National Laboratories, 27 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117510 Republic of Singapore
- />Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore, 117549 Republic of Singapore
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Durviaux S, Treanor J, Beran J, Duval X, Esen M, Feldman G, Frey SE, Launay O, Leroux-Roels G, McElhaney JE, Nowakowski A, Ruiz-Palacios GM, van Essen GA, Oostvogels L, Devaster JM, Walravens K. Genetic and antigenic typing of seasonal influenza virus breakthrough cases from a 2008-2009 vaccine efficacy trial. CLINICAL AND VACCINE IMMUNOLOGY : CVI 2014; 21:271-9. [PMID: 24371255 PMCID: PMC3957665 DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00544-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Accepted: 12/16/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Estimations of the effectiveness of vaccines against seasonal influenza virus are guided by comparisons of the antigenicities between influenza virus isolates from clinical breakthrough cases with strains included in a vaccine. This study examined whether the prediction of antigenicity using a sequence analysis of the hemagglutinin (HA) gene-encoded HA1 domain is a simpler alternative to using the conventional hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay, which requires influenza virus culturing. Specimens were taken from breakthrough cases that occurred in a trivalent influenza virus vaccine efficacy trial involving >43,000 participants during the 2008-2009 season. A total of 498 influenza viruses were successfully subtyped as A(H3N2) (380 viruses), A(H1N1) (29 viruses), B(Yamagata) (23 viruses), and B(Victoria) (66 viruses) from 603 PCR- or culture-confirmed specimens. Unlike the B strains, most A(H3N2) (377 viruses) and all A(H1N1) viruses were classified as homologous to the respective vaccine strains based on their HA1 domain nucleic acid sequence. HI titers relative to the respective vaccine strains and PCR subtyping were determined for 48% (182/380) of A(H3N2) and 86% (25/29) of A(H1N1) viruses. Eighty-four percent of the A(H3N2) and A(H1N1) viruses classified as homologous by sequence were matched to the respective vaccine strains by HI testing. However, these homologous A(H3N2) and A(H1N1) viruses displayed a wide range of relative HI titers. Therefore, although PCR is a sensitive diagnostic method for confirming influenza virus cases, HA1 sequence analysis appeared to be of limited value in accurately predicting antigenicity; hence, it may be inappropriate to classify clinical specimens as homologous or heterologous to the vaccine strain for estimating vaccine efficacy in a prospective clinical trial.
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- Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA
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- Vaccination and Travel Medicine Centre, Poliklinika 2, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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- Hôpital Bichat Claude Bernard, C.I.C. Bichat GH BICHAT, Paris, France
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- Institut für Tropenmedizin, Tübingen, Germany
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- S. Carolina Pharmaceutical Research, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA
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- Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Université Paris-Descartes, Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Cochin, CIC de Vaccinologie Cochin-Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Centre for Vaccinology, Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Health Sciences North and Advanced Medical Research Institute of Canada, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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- Family Medicine Centre, Lubartów, Poland
- Department of Gynaecology and Oncologic Gynaecology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Parc de la Noire Epine, Wavre, Belgium
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Cocirculation of antigenic variants and the vaccine-type virus during the 2004-2005 influenza B virus epidemics in Japan. J Clin Microbiol 2008; 47:352-7. [PMID: 19091818 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01357-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In the 2004-2005 season, there was a large epidemic of the influenza B virus Yamagata group in Kobe, Japan. In hemagglutination inhibition tests, most of the clinical isolates from Kobe showed antigenicities similar to those of previous isolates (the vaccine-type virus). Only a few antigenic variants were isolated around the peak of the epidemic; however, Kobe residents developed antibodies against the variants during the season. The antigenic variants showed a one-point mutation of a nucleotide in the HA1 gene (C440A or G421A), which resulted in the substitution of one amino acid in the 150 loop of the HA molecule (T147N or G141R). The 150 loop is one of four epitopes of the hemagglutinin molecule of the influenza B virus. We established a system to detect one-point differences in the nucleotides of the 150 loop by means of high-resolution melting curve analysis with LCGreen. With this system, the isolates were determined to be the vaccine-type virus, antigenic variants, or a mixture of both. Some isolates were shown to be mixtures although they had been recognized as the vaccine-type virus with the hemagglutination inhibition tests. Thus, the antigenic variants appeared in the early period of the epidemic and were cocirculating with the vaccine-type virus during the epidemic.
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Shen J, Kirk BD, Ma J, Wang Q. Diversifying selective pressure on influenza B virus hemagglutinin. J Med Virol 2008; 81:114-24. [PMID: 19031453 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Influenza B virus hemagglutinin (HA) is a major surface glycoprotein with frequent amino acid substitutions. However, the roles of antibody selection in the amino acid substitutions of HA were still poorly understood. In order to gain insights into this important issue, an analysis was conducted on a total of 271 HA1 sequences of influenza B virus strains isolated during 1940-2007. In this analysis, phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood (PAML) package was used to detect the existence of positive selection and to identify positively selected sites on HA1. Strikingly, all the positively selected sites were located in the four major epitopes (120-loop, 150-loop, 160-loop, and 190-helix) of HA identified in previous studies, thus supporting a predominant role of antibody selection in HA evolution. Of particular significance is the involvement of the 120-loop in positive selection, which may become increasingly important in future field isolates. Despite the absence of different subtypes, influenza B virus HA continued to evolve into new sublineages, within which the four major epitopes were targeted selectively in positive selection. Thus, any newly emerging strains need to be placed in the context of their evolutionary history in order to understand and predict their epidemic potential.
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- Jun Shen
- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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Nunes B, Pechirra P, Coelho A, Ribeiro C, Arraiolos A, Rebelo-de-Andrade H. Heterogeneous selective pressure acting on influenza B Victoria- and Yamagata-like hemagglutinins. J Mol Evol 2008; 67:427-35. [PMID: 18841406 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9154-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2008] [Revised: 07/14/2008] [Accepted: 07/21/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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As a consequence of immune pressure, influenza virus hemagglutinin presents some of its amino acids under positive selection. Several authors have reported the existence of influenza A hemagglutinin codons under positive selective pressure (PSP). In this framework, the present work objectives were to demonstrate the presence of PSP and evaluate its effects on Victoria- and Yamagata-like influenza B viruses. Methodology adopted consisted in estimating the acceptance rate of nonsynonymous substitutions (omega = dN/dS) that describe the strength of selective pressure and identifying codons that may be positively selected, applying a set of continuous-time Markov chain codon-substitution models. Two groups of HA1 sequences (140 from Yamagata and 60 from Victoria lineage) were used. All the model maximum-likelihood estimates were obtained using codeml software application (PAML 3.15). The hypothesis of no existence of sites under PSP was rejected for both lineages (p < 0.001), using likelihood ratio tests. These results demonstrate the presence of positive selection acting on hemagglutinin of both Yamagata- and Victoria-like influenza B viruses. Several different sites were identified to be under PSP on Yamagata and Victoria hemagglutinins. Sites found with a posterior probability > 0.95 were codons 197 and 199 in both lineages, codon 75 in the Yamagata lineage, and codon 129 in the Victoria lineage. The detected amino acids are located at or near antigenic sites in influenza A virus H3 hemagglutinin.
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- Baltazar Nunes
- Departamento de Epidemiologia, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, I.P., Lisbon, Portugal
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Here we report the crystal structure of hemagglutinin (HA) from influenza B/Hong Kong/8/73 (B/HK) virus determined to 2.8 A. At a sequence identity of approximately 25% to influenza A virus HAs, B/HK HA shares a similar overall structure and domain organization. More than two dozen amino acid substitutions on influenza B virus HAs have been identified to cause antigenicity alteration in site-specific mutants, monoclonal antibody escape mutants, or field isolates. Mapping these substitutions on the structure of B/HK HA reveals four major epitopes, the 120 loop, the 150 loop, the 160 loop, and the 190 helix, that are located close in space to form a large, continuous antigenic site. Moreover, a systematic comparison of known HA structures across the entire influenza virus family reveals evolutionarily conserved ionizable residues at all regions along the chain and subunit interfaces. These ionizable residues are likely the structural basis for the pH dependence and sensitivity to ionic strength of influenza HA and hemagglutinin-esterase fusion proteins.
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