title: Full-length sequences of subgenotype IIIA and IIIB hepatitis A virus isolates: characterization of genotype III HAV genomes.
abstract: To elucidate the extent of genomic heterogeneity of human hepatitis A virus (HAV) strains and to characterize genotype III HAV strains over the entire genome, the full-length sequence of three subgenotype IIIA isolates (HA-JNG04-90F, HA-JNG08-92F, and HAJ95-8F) and one IIIB isolate (HAJ85-1F) was determined. The HA-JNG04-90F, HA-JNG08-92F, and HAJ95-8F genomes which comprised 7463 or 7464 nt excluding the poly(A) tail, were closest to a reported nearly entire sequence of a IIIA isolate (NOR-21) with identities of 94.4-97.8% over the entire ORF sequence, and the HAJ85-1 genome (7462 nt) to HA-JNG06-90F of IIIB with an identity of 98.6%. The phylogenetic trees constructed based on the complete ORF sequence or the 168-nt VP1/2A junction sequence and comparative analysis with reported HAV isolates suggested the presence of three distinct clusters within IIIA represented by HA-JNG04-90F, HA-JNG08-92F, and HAJ95-8F. The extreme 5' end sequences of IIIA and IIIB were well-conserved, beginning with the sequence UUCAAGAGGG. A single base deletion of G at nt 20, which is involved in the formation of a small loop in domain I, was characteristic of both IIIA and IIIB. Conserved and divergent amino acid sequences as well as amino acids unique to genotype III, IIIA or IIIB were recognized.
authors: Division of Virology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke-Shi, Tochigi-Ken 329-0498, Japan.
authors: Kazunori
authors: K
authors: Endo
authors: Masaharu
authors: M
authors: Takahashi
authors: Kazuo
authors: K
authors: Masuko
authors: Kazuaki
authors: K
authors: Inoue
authors: Yoshihiro
authors: Y
authors: Akahane
authors: Hiroaki
authors: H
authors: Okamoto
mesh_terms: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D000328:Adult; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016679:Genome, Viral; D005838:Genotype; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000821:virology*; D030041:Hepatitis A virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D012367:RNA, Viral