title: Complete genome sequences of elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses 1A and 1B determined directly from fatal cases.
abstract: A highly lethal hemorrhagic disease associated with infection by elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV) poses a severe threat to Asian elephant husbandry. We have used high-throughput methods to sequence the genomes of the two genotypes that are involved in most fatalities, namely, EEHV1A and EEHV1B (species Elephantid herpesvirus 1, genus Proboscivirus, subfamily Betaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae). The sequences were determined from postmortem tissue samples, despite the data containing tiny proportions of viral reads among reads from a host for which the genome sequence was not available. The EEHV1A genome is 180,421 bp in size and consists of a unique sequence (174,601 bp) flanked by a terminal direct repeat (2,910 bp). The genome contains 116 predicted protein-coding genes, of which six are fragmented, and seven paralogous gene families are present. The EEHV1B genome is very similar to that of EEHV1A in structure, size, and gene layout. Half of the EEHV1A genes lack orthologs in other members of subfamily Betaherpesvirinae, such as human cytomegalovirus (genus Cytomegalovirus) and human herpesvirus 6A (genus Roseolovirus). Notable among these are 23 genes encoding type 3 membrane proteins containing seven transmembrane domains (the 7TM family) and seven genes encoding related type 2 membrane proteins (the EE50 family). The EE50 family appears to be under intense evolutionary selection, as it is highly diverged between the two genotypes, exhibits evidence of sequence duplications or deletions, and contains several fragmented genes. The availability of the genome sequences will facilitate future research on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of EEHV-associated disease.
authors.affiliation: MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Gavin S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Wilkie
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Davison
authors.forename: Mick
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kerr
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sanderson
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bouts
authors.forename: Falko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Steinbach
authors.forename: Akbar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dastjerdi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001344:Autopsy; D001483:Base Sequence; D018141:Betaherpesvirinae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004606:Elephants / Q000821:virology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D016679:Genome, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral
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