title: Characterization of novel polyomaviruses from Bornean and Sumatran orang-utans.
abstract: Serological screening of sera from orang-utans demonstrated a high percentage of sera that cross-reacted with antigens of the polyomavirus (PyV) simian virus 40. Analysis of archival DNA samples from 71 Bornean and eight Sumatran orang-utans with a broad-spectrum PCR assay resulted in the detection of PyV infections in 11 animals from both species. Sequence analysis of the amplicons revealed considerable differences between the PyVs from Bornean and Sumatran orang-utans. The genome from two PyVs, one from each species, was therefore amplified and sequenced. Both viral genomes revealed a characteristic PyV architecture, but lacked an obvious agnogene. Neighbour-joining analysis positioned the viruses in a large cluster together with viruses from bats, bovines, rodents and several primate PyVs from chimpanzees, African green monkeys, squirrel monkeys and the human Merkel cell PyV.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Marlous J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Groenewoud
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fagrouch
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: van Gessel
authors.forename: Henk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niphuis
authors.forename: Aiste
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bulavaite
authors.forename: Kristin S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.forename: Jonathan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Heeney
authors.forename: Ernst J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Verschoor
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D018420:Ape Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D001893:Borneo; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D023061:Gene Order; D005814:Genes, Viral; D007214:Indonesia; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D011120:Polyomavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D027601:Polyomavirus Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D057080:Pongo abelii / Q000821:virology*; D011148:Pongo pygmaeus / Q000821:virology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D026801:Synteny; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral