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. 2018 Dec;45(6):1947-1955.
doi: 10.1007/s11033-018-4345-y. Epub 2018 Sep 4.

Genetic characteristics of the P1 coding region of Coxsackievirus A16 associated with hand, foot, and mouth disease in China

Li Xu  1   2 , Dawei Cui  3 , Lei Wang  2 , Jun Cheng  2 , Changgui Sun  2 , Lanjuan Li  1 , Hongcui Cao  4
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Genetic characteristics of the P1 coding region of Coxsackievirus A16 associated with hand, foot, and mouth disease in China

Li Xu et al. Mol Biol Rep. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) is one of the major etiological agents of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) in young children. To investigate the genetic characteristics of the P1 coding region gene of CVA16 associated with HFMD in China, we included the sequences of CVA16 specimens obtained from outbreak investigations and sporadic HFMD cases between 1998 and 2014 in China from GenBank, we genotyped the CVA16 sequences and analyzed P1 coding region sequences that encode structural proteins with bioinformatics software. CVA16 was classified into genotypes A and B1 based on the VP1 gene; the B1b and B1a subgenotypes were the major CVA16 strains and predominated in the coastal areas of China. Four strains were found to show inter- and intra-typic recombination in the P1 region. The amino acid identities of VP1, VP2, VP3, and VP4 proteins in all Chinese CVA16 strains were 88.2-100%, 83.0-100%, 87.6-100%, and 72.4-100%, respectively. A total of 251 amino acid substitution sites were detected in the structural proteins encoded by the P1 coding region gene. The amino acid sequences of the P1 coding region in Chinese CVA16 strains were highly conserved, although some amino acid mutations occurred with high frequency: VP1-T11A (10%), N14S (14%), L23M/V (11%), T98M (16%), V107A (14%), N102D (6.1%), E145V (8.8%), N218D (10%), E241K (22%), T248A/I (6.8%); VP2-I217V (22%), T226A (38%); VP3-N141S/G (5.4%), and N240D (15%). The genetic characteristics of CVA16 in the P1 coding region gene may provide a basis for developing a CVA16 vaccine and preventing and controlling HFMD in China.

Keywords: Coxsackievirus A16; Genetic characteristics; P1 coding region gene; Phylogenetic analysis; Variation.

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