Laboratório de Diversidade Viral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal Do Pará, Belem, Pará, 66075-000, Brazil.
Public Health Laboratory of Amapa-LACEN/AP, Health Surveillance Superintendence of Amapa, Macapa, 68905-230, Brazil.
Virus Genes. 2023 Feb;59(1):167-172. doi: 10.1007/s11262-022-01955-z. Epub 2022 Nov 17.
The totiviridae family contains viruses with double-stranded RNA genomes of 4.6-7.0 kpb, which encode a capsid protein (CP) and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), and they are approximately 40 nm in diameter with icosahedral symmetry. Totiviruses were first isolated from mosquitoes collected in Shaanxi Province (China). Here, we report a new Aedes aegypti Totivirus (AaTV) identified in mosquitoes from the Amazon rainforest. Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) were collected from a forest reserve belonging to the Amazon forest in the city of Macapá, Amapá state, Northern Brazil. A viral sequence with a 5748 nucleotide length that was nearly identical to Aedes aegypti Totivirus (AaTV), here named Aedes aegypti Totivirus BR59AP, was detected. A detailed molecular analysis was performed and shows that AaTV-BR59AP is highly related to the AaTV strain from the Caribbean region. We emphasize the importance of the characterization of new viruses in mosquitoes to deepen our understanding of viral diversity in insects and their potential role in disease.
该 totiviridae 家族包含具有双链 RNA 基因组 4.6-7.0 kpb 的病毒,其编码衣壳蛋白 (CP) 和 RNA 依赖性 RNA 聚合酶 (RdRp),并且它们的直径约为 40nm,具有二十面体对称性。 Totiviruses 最初是从中国陕西省收集的蚊子中分离出来的。在这里,我们报道了一种新的埃及伊蚊 Totivirus (AaTV),它是在亚马逊雨林的蚊子中发现的。蚊子 (双翅目:库蚊科) 是从巴西北部阿马帕州马卡帕市亚马逊森林的一个森林保护区采集的。检测到了一个长度为 5748 个核苷酸的病毒序列,与埃及伊蚊 Totivirus (AaTV) 几乎完全相同,这里命名为埃及伊蚊 Totivirus BR59AP。进行了详细的分子分析,结果表明 AaTV-BR59AP 与来自加勒比地区的 AaTV 株高度相关。我们强调了对蚊子中新型病毒进行特征描述的重要性,以加深我们对昆虫中病毒多样性及其在疾病中的潜在作用的理解。