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ArticleVirus evolution2020

Chad V Kuny, Christopher D Bowen, Daniel W Renner, Christine M Johnston, Moriah L Szpara

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Article in Virus evolution, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Chad V KunyDepartments of Biology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Christopher D BowenDepartments of Biology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Daniel W RennerDepartments of Biology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Christine M JohnstonDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Moriah L SzparaDepartments of Biology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9859-1678

Funding

THE PERINATAL COMPLICATIONS OF ASYMPTOMATIC GENITAL HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUSP01AI030731 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WALD, ANNA · 1991 to 2017
$34.3M
Forward genetic prediction and testing of virulence loci in herpes simplex virus 1R01AI132692 · NIAID · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI SZPARA, MORIAH · 2018 to 2022
$2.3M
Genomic analysis of HSV-1 in the niche of genital infectionR21AI130676 · NIAID · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI SZPARA, MORIAH · 2017 to 2018
$439k
NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI030731NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132692NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI130676
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The large dsDNA virus herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is considered to be genetically stable, yet it can rapidly evolve in response to strong selective pressures such as antiviral treatment. Deep sequencing has revealed that clinical and laboratory isolates of this virus exist as populations that contain a mixture of minor alleles or variants, similar to many RNA viruses. The classic virology approach of plaque purifying virus creates a genetically homogenous population, but it is not clear how closely this represents the mixed virus populations found in nature. We sought to study the evolution of mixed versus highly purified HSV-1 populations in controlled cell culture conditions, to examine the impact of this genetic diversity on evolution. We found that a mixed population of HSV-1 acquired more genetic diversity and underwent a more dramatic phenotypic shift than a plaque-purified population, producing a viral population that was almost entirely syncytial after just ten passages. At the genomic level, adaptation and genetic diversification occurred at the level of minor alleles or variants in the viral population. Certain genetic variants in the mixed viral population appeared to be positively selected in cell culture, and this shift was also observed in clinical samples during their first passages

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evolutionHSV-1minor variantsyncytiaviral fitness

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PMID32296542
PMCPMC7151645

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