title: Complete sequences of two highly divergent european isolates of TT virus.
abstract: TT virus is a virus distantly related to the Circoviridae family. We report here the complete genome characterization of two European human isolates (T3PB and TUPB) using a new and simple protocol for sequencing GC-rich genomic regions. Sequence analysis confirmed the existence of two major ORFs, of a CAV-like VP2 motif in ORF2 and of potential stem-loop structures in non-coding regions. Phylogenetic analyses based on complete genomic sequences of human isolates suggested that three different lineages exist at least. The first lineage includes genotypes 1, 2, and 3, and two other lineages include viruses related to the Japanese SANBAN and to the North American TUS01 isolates respectively. Sequence comparison made it possible to assign strain T3PB to genotype 3, and strain TUPB to the TUS01 group. Consequently, this study reports the first full-length sequence of a genotype 3 isolate and demonstrates that viruses belonging to the TUS01 lineage are present in the Old Word.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire, Etablissement François du Sang "Alpes-Méditerranée,", Unité des Virus Emergents, 149, Bd Baille, Marseille, 13005, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Biagini
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Attoui
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gallian
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Touinssi
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cantaloube
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Micco
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: de Lamballerie
mesh_terms: D018136:Circoviridae / Q000235:genetics; D004267:DNA Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D005602:France; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral