Simultaneous detection and phylogenetic analysis of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and porcine circovirus 4 in Henan province, China

Li, Hongxuan; Chen, Ximeng; Zhao, You-Yi; Zhang, Honglei; Zheng, Lan-Lan; Wang, Linqing; Ma, Shi-Jie; Hong-ying, Chen

doi:10.1007/s00705-023-05791-w

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“…Recently, PCV4 has been widely spreading in China and other countries, and the infection rate has been increasing year by year [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ]. Currently, no effective treatment or commercial vaccine is available in the domestic and foreign markets.…”

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The Nuclear Localization Signal of Porcine Circovirus Type 4 Affects the Subcellular Localization of the Virus Capsid and the Production of Virus-like Particles

Zheng,

Li,

et al. 2024

IJMS

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Porcine circovirus 4 (PCV4) is a newly identified virus belonging to PCV of the Circoviridae family, the Circovirus genus. We previously found that PCV4 is pathogenic in vitro, while the virus’s replication in cells is still unknown. In this study, we evaluated the N-terminal of the PCV4 capsid (Cap) and identified an NLS at amino acid residues 4–37 of the N-terminus of the PCV4 Cap, 4RSRYSRRRRNRRNQRRRGLWPRASRRRYRWRRKN37. The NLS was further divided into two fragments (NLS-A and NLS-B) based on the predicted structure, including two α-helixes, which were located at 4RSRYSRRRRNRRNQRR19 and 24PRASRRRYRWRRK36, respectively. Further studies showed that the NLS, especially the first α-helixes formed by the NLS-A fragment, determined the nuclear localization of the Cap protein, and the amino acid 4RSRY7 in the NLS of the PCV4 Cap was the critical motif affecting the VLP packaging. These results will provide a theoretical basis for elucidating the infection mechanism of PCV4 and developing subunit vaccines based on VLPs.

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