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ArticleScientific reports2020

A common partitivirus infection in United States and Czech Republic isolates of bat white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans.

Ping Ren, Sunanda S Rajkumar, Tao Zhang, Haixin Sui, Paul S Masters, Natalia Martinkova, Alena Kubátová, Jiri Pikula, Sudha Chaturvedi, Vishnu Chaturvedi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ping RenMycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA. piren@utmb.edu.
Sunanda S RajkumarMycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA.
Tao ZhangInstitute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Haixin SuiCellular and Molecular Basis of Diseases Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA.
Paul S MastersDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of Albany School of Public Health, Albany, NY, USA.
Natalia MartinkovaInstitute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4556-4363
Alena KubátováDepartment of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2837-1087
Jiri PikulaDepartment of Ecology and Diseases of Zoo Animals, Game, Fish and Bees, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8747-9365
Sudha ChaturvediMycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA.
Vishnu ChaturvediMycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA. vishnu.chaturvedi@health.ny.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3922-9676
New York State Department of Health · USCharles University · CZChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology · CZUniversity of Veterinary Sciences Brno · CZ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The psychrophilic (cold-loving) fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans was discovered more than a decade ago to be the pathogen responsible for white-nose syndrome, an emerging disease of North American bats causing unprecedented population declines. The same species of fungus is found in Europe but without associated mortality in bats. We found P. destructans was infected with a mycovirus [named Pseudogymnoascus destructans partitivirus 1 (PdPV-1)]. The virus is bipartite, containing two double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) segments designated as dsRNA1 and dsRNA2. The cDNA sequences revealed that dsRNA1 dsRNA is 1,683 bp in length with an open reading frame (ORF) that encodes 539 amino acids (molecular mass of 62.7 kDa); dsRNA2 dsRNA is 1,524 bp in length with an ORF that encodes 434 amino acids (molecular mass of 46.9 kDa). The dsRNA1 ORF contains motifs representative of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), whereas the dsRNA2 ORF sequence showed homology with the putative capsid proteins (CPs) of mycoviruses. Phylogenetic analyses with PdPV-1 RdRp and CP sequences indicated that both segments constitute the genome of a novel virus in the family Partitiviridae. The purified virions were isometric with an estimated diameter of 33 nm. Reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) and sequencing revealed that all US isolates and a subset of Czech Republic isolates of P. destructans were infected with PdPV-1. However, PdPV-1 appears to be not widely dispersed in the fungal genus Pseudogymnoascus, as non-pathogenic fungi P. appendiculatus (1 isolate) and P. roseus (6 isolates) tested negative. P. destructans PdPV-1 could be a valuable tool to investigate fungal biogeography and the host-pathogen interactions in bat WNS.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsAscomycotaBase SequenceChiropteraCzech RepublicFungal VirusesPhylogenyRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, ViralUnited StatesViral ProteinsRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, ViralViral Proteins

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