A novel finding for enterovirus virulence from the capsid protein VP1 of EV71 circulating in mainland China - PubMed (original) (raw)

doi: 10.1007/s11262-014-1035-2. Epub 2014 Jan 19.

Chong Fu, Suying Wu, Xiong Chen, Yingying Shi, Bingfei Zhou, Lianglu Zhang, Fengfeng Zhang, Zhihao Wang, Yingying Zhang, Chengpeng Fan, Song Han, Jun Yin, Biwen Peng, Wanhong Liu, Xiaohua He

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A novel finding for enterovirus virulence from the capsid protein VP1 of EV71 circulating in mainland China

Yongjuan Liu et al. Virus Genes. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a neurotropic virus that causes various clinical manifestations in young children, ranging from asymptomatic to fatal. Different pathotypes of EV71 notably differ in virulence. Several virulence determinants of EV71 have been predicted. However, these reported virulence determinants could not be used to identify the EV71 strains of subgenotype C4, which mainly circulate in China. In this study, VP1 sequences of 37 EV71 strains from severe cases (SC-EV71) and 192 EV71 strains from mild cases (MC-EV71) in mainland China were analyzed to determine the potential virulence determinants in the capsid protein VP1 of EV71. Although most SC-EV71 strains belonged to subgenotype C4a, no specific genetic lineages in C4a were correlated with EV71 virulence. Interestingly, amino acid substitutions at nine positions (H22Q, P27S, N31S/D, E98K, E145G/Q, D164E, T240A/S, V249I, and A289T) were detected by aligning the VP1 sequences of the SC-EV71 and MC-EV71 strains. Moreover, both the constituent ratios of the conservative or mutated residues in the MC-EV71 and SC-EV71 strains and the changes in the VP1 3D structure resulting from these mutations confirmed that the conservative residues (22H, 249V, and 289A) and the mutated residues (27S, 31S/D, 98K, 145G/Q, 164E, and 240A/S) might be potential virulence determinants in VP1 of EV71. Furthermore, these results led to the hypothesis that VP1 acts as a sandwich switch for viral particle stabilization and cellular receptors attachment, and specific mutations in this protein can convert mild cases into severe cases. These findings highlight new opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

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