Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Universitat de València-CSIC, 46980, Paterna, València, Spain.
Centro de Transfusión de la Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain.
Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 25;11(1):6921. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86427-4.
Human blood metagenomics has revealed the presence of different types of viruses in apparently healthy subjects. By far, anelloviruses constitute the viral family that is more frequently found in human blood, although amplification biases and contaminations pose a major challenge in this field. To investigate this further, we subjected pooled plasma samples from 120 healthy donors in Spain to high-speed centrifugation, RNA and DNA extraction, random amplification, and massive parallel sequencing. Our results confirm the extensive presence of anelloviruses in such samples, which represented nearly 97% of the total viral sequence reads obtained. We assembled 114 different viral genomes belonging to this family, revealing remarkable diversity. Phylogenetic analysis of ORF1 suggested 28 potentially novel anellovirus species, 24 of which were validated by Sanger sequencing to discard artifacts. These findings underscore the importance of implementing more efficient purification procedures that enrich the viral fraction as an essential step in virome studies and question the suggested pathological role of anelloviruses.
人类血液宏基因组学揭示了在看似健康的个体中存在不同类型的病毒。到目前为止,圆环病毒构成了在人类血液中更频繁发现的病毒家族,尽管扩增偏差和污染对该领域构成了重大挑战。为了进一步研究这一点,我们对来自西班牙的 120 名健康供体的混合血浆样本进行高速离心、RNA 和 DNA 提取、随机扩增和大规模平行测序。我们的结果证实了圆环病毒在这些样本中的广泛存在,这些样本代表了获得的总病毒序列读数的近 97%。我们组装了属于该家族的 114 种不同的病毒基因组,揭示了显著的多样性。ORF1 的系统发育分析表明存在 28 种潜在的新型圆环病毒种,其中 24 种通过 Sanger 测序得到验证以排除假象。这些发现强调了实施更有效的纯化程序以富集病毒部分作为病毒组研究的必要步骤的重要性,并质疑圆环病毒的病理作用。