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ArticlePloS one2015

Novel Insights on Hantavirus Evolution: The Dichotomy in Evolutionary Pressures Acting on Different Hantavirus Segments.

Sathish Sankar, Mohita Upadhyay, Mageshbabu Ramamurthy, Kumaran Vadivel, Kalaiselvan Sagadevan, Balaji Nandagopal, Perumal Vivekanandan, Gopalan Sridharan

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Sathish SankarSri Sakthi Amma Institute of Biomedical Research, Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, Sripuram, Vellore, 632 055, Tamil Nadu, India.
Mohita UpadhyayKusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 110 016, India.
Mageshbabu RamamurthySri Sakthi Amma Institute of Biomedical Research, Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, Sripuram, Vellore, 632 055, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kumaran VadivelSri Sakthi Amma Institute of Biomedical Research, Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, Sripuram, Vellore, 632 055, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kalaiselvan SagadevanSri Sakthi Amma Institute of Biomedical Research, Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, Sripuram, Vellore, 632 055, Tamil Nadu, India.
Balaji NandagopalSri Sakthi Amma Institute of Biomedical Research, Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, Sripuram, Vellore, 632 055, Tamil Nadu, India.
Perumal VivekanandanKusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 110 016, India.
Gopalan SridharanSri Sakthi Amma Institute of Biomedical Research, Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, Sripuram, Vellore, 632 055, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Abstract

backgroundHantaviruses are important emerging zoonotic pathogens. The current understanding of hantavirus evolution is complicated by the lack of consensus on co-divergence of hantaviruses with their animal hosts. In addition, hantaviruses have long-term associations with their reservoir hosts. Analyzing the relative abundance of dinucleotides may shed new light on hantavirus evolution. We studied the relative abundance of dinucleotides and the evolutionary pressures shaping different hantavirus segments.

methodsA total of 118 sequences were analyzed; this includes 51 sequences of the S segment, 43 sequences of the M segment and 23 sequences of the L segment. The relative abundance of dinucleotides, effective codon number (ENC), codon usage biases were analyzed. Standard methods were used to investigate the relative roles of mutational pressure and translational selection on the three hantavirus segments.

resultsAll three segments of hantaviruses are CpG depleted. Mutational pressure is the predominant evolutionary force leading to CpG depletion among hantaviruses. Interestingly, the S segment of hantaviruses is GpU depleted and in contrast to CpG depletion, the depletion of GpU dinucleotides from the S segment is driven by translational selection. Our findings also suggest that mutational pressure is the primary evolutionary pressure acting on the S and the M segments of hantaviruses. While translational selection plays a key role in shaping the evolution of the L segment. Our findings highlight how different evolutionary pressures may contribute disproportionally to the evolution of the three hantavirus segments. These findings provide new insights on the current understanding of hantavirus evolution.

conclusionsThere is a dichotomy among evolutionary pressures shaping a) the relative abundance of different dinucleotides in hantavirus genomes b) the evolution of the three hantavirus segments.

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Biological EvolutionCommunicable DiseasesCpG IslandsMutationOrthohantavirusPhylogeny

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PMID26193652
PMCPMC4508033

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