Identification of a Novel Human Rhinovirus C Type by Antibody Capture VIDISCA-454
oleh: Seyed Mohammad Jazaeri Farsani, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Marta Canuti, Martin Deijs, Matthew Cotten, Maarten F. Jebbink, Joost Verhoeven, Paul Kellam, Katherine Loens, Herman Goossens, Margareta Ieven, Lia van der Hoek
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| Diterbitkan: | MDPI AG 2015-01-01 |
Deskripsi
Causative agents for more than 30 percent of respiratory infections remain unidentified, suggesting that unknown respiratory pathogens might be involved. In this study, antibody capture VIDISCA-454 (virus discovery cDNA-AFLP combined with Roche 454 high-throughput sequencing) resulted in the discovery of a novel type of rhinovirus C (RV-C). The virus has an RNA genome of at least 7054 nt and carries the characteristics of rhinovirus C species. The gene encoding viral protein 1, which is used for typing, has only 81% nucleotide sequence identity with the closest known RV-C type, and, therefore, the virus represents the first member of a novel type, named RV-C54.