Instituto de Patología Vegetal, Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (IPAVE-CIAP-INTA), Camino 60 Cuadras Km 5,5 (X5020ICA), Córdoba, Argentina.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Unidad de Fitopatología y Modelización Agrícola, Camino 60 Cuadras Km 5,5 (X5020ICA), Córdoba, Argentina.
Arch Virol. 2022 Sep;167(9):1785-1803. doi: 10.1007/s00705-022-05493-9. Epub 2022 Jun 16.
Tymovirales is an order of viruses with positive-sense RNA genomes that mostly infect plants, but also fungi and insects. The number of genome sequences of viruses that could fit this taxon has been growing in the last few years with the extensive use of high-throughput sequencing. Here, we report the discovery of 31 novel viral genome sequences associated with 27 different host plant species, which were hidden in public databases. These viral sequences were identified through homology searches in more than 3,000 plant transcriptomes from the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) using known tymovirales sequences as queries. Identification, assembly, and curation of raw SRA reads resulted in 29 viral genome sequences with complete coding regions, and two representing partial genomes. Some of the obtained sequences highlight novel genome organizations for members of the order. Phylogenetic analysis showed that six of the novel viruses are related to alphaflexiviruses, 17 to betaflexiviruses, two to deltaflexiviruses, and six to tymovirids. These findings shed new light on the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary landscape of this group of viruses. Furthermore, this study illustrates the complexity and genome diversity among members of the order and demonstrates that analyzing public SRA data provides an invaluable tool to accelerate virus discovery and refine virus taxonomy.
Tymovirales 是一类具有正链 RNA 基因组的病毒,主要感染植物,但也感染真菌和昆虫。随着高通量测序的广泛应用,近年来能够归入这一类群的病毒基因组序列数量不断增加。在这里,我们报告了 31 种与 27 种不同宿主植物物种相关的新型病毒基因组序列的发现,这些序列隐藏在公共数据库中。这些病毒序列是通过使用已知的 tymovirales 序列作为查询,在 NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) 中超过 3000 个植物转录组的同源性搜索中发现的。对原始 SRA reads 的鉴定、组装和管理产生了 29 个具有完整编码区的病毒基因组序列,其中两个代表部分基因组。获得的一些序列突出了该目成员的新型基因组组织。系统发育分析表明,其中 6 种新型病毒与 alfaflexiviruses 相关,17 种与 betaflexiviruses 相关,2 种与 deltflexiviruses 相关,6 种与 tymovirids 相关。这些发现为该组病毒的系统发育关系和进化景观提供了新的认识。此外,本研究阐明了该目成员之间的基因组复杂性和多样性,并表明分析公共 SRA 数据为加速病毒发现和完善病毒分类学提供了宝贵的工具。
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