title: Genomic organization and recombination analysis of human norovirus identified from China.
abstract: Noroviruses (NoVs) are one of the major causal agents of acute gastroenteritis in both industrial and developing countries including China. Recent studies have revealed that NoV genome is highly prone to mutation and recombination which may lead to emergence of new strains. In the present study, three full-length genomes of human NoV from China were determined and the genomic organization and recombination were analyzed. They had similar genome organization and contained three predicted ORFs, though the 5'UTR of those three strains were 2, 4 and 8 nucleotides, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the HU/GII/SHANGHAI/SH312/2008/CHN strain may be a recombinant of GII-3 capsid and GII-4 polymerase. To confirm the finding and detect the breakpoints where the recombination event occurred, we performed recombination analysis based on the genomic sequences of HU/GII/SHANGHAI/SH312/2008/CHN as the query sequence, and AB220921/NOV/JP/GII-4 and AB365435/NOV/US/GII-3 as the background sequences, using RPD software. Results indicated that the two parental strains were AB220921/NOV/JP/GII-4 and AB365435/NOV/US/GII-3. The breakpoint for this recombination event located at position 5,107 nt of the genome (in the ORF1 and ORF2 overlap).
authors: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai JiaoTong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
authors: Quan
authors: Q
authors: Shen
authors: Wen
authors: W
authors: Zhang
authors: Shixing
authors: S
authors: Yang
authors: Yan
authors: Y
authors: Chen
authors: Tongling
authors: T
authors: Shan
authors: Li
authors: L
authors: Cui
authors: Xiuguo
authors: X
authors: Hua
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