Analyses of Leishmania-LRV Co-Phylogenetic Patterns and Evolutionary Variability of Viral Proteins
Autor: | Vyacheslav Yurchenko, Alexei Y. Kostygov, Daniil S. Chistyakov, Yulia Kleschenko, Alexander N. Lukashev, Danyil Grybchuk, Evgeny S. Gerasimov |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
viruses
Leishmaniavirus Biology Microbiology Article Negative selection chemistry.chemical_compound Viral Proteins Virology RNA polymerase Animals Humans RNA Viruses Gene Leishmaniasis Genetics Leishmania RNA virus phylogenomics biology.organism_classification RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase QR1-502 Infectious Diseases chemistry Capsid Phylogenetic Pattern coevolution RNA Viral Capsid Proteins |
Zdroj: | Viruses, Vol 13, Iss 2305, p 2305 (2021) Viruses Viruses; Volume 13; Issue 11; Pages: 2305 |
ISSN: | 1999-4915 |
Popis: | Leishmania spp. are important pathogens causing a vector-borne disease with a broad range of clinical manifestations from self-healing ulcers to the life-threatening visceral forms. Presence of Leishmania RNA virus (LRV) confers survival advantage to these parasites by suppressing anti-leishmanial immunity in the vertebrate host. The two viral species, LRV1 and LRV2 infect species of the subgenera Viannia and Leishmania, respectively. In this work we investigated co-phylogenetic patterns of leishmaniae and their viruses on a small scale (LRV2 in L. major) and demonstrated their predominant coevolution, occasionally broken by intraspecific host switches. Our analysis of the two viral genes, encoding the capsid and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RDRP), revealed them to be under the pressure of purifying selection, which was considerably stronger for the former gene across the whole tree. The selective pressure also differs between the LRV clades and correlates with the frequency of interspecific host switches. In addition, using experimental (capsid) and predicted (RDRP) models we demonstrated that the evolutionary variability across the structure is strikingly different in these two viral proteins. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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