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Takeshi Nabeshima1, Shingo Inoue1, Kenta Okamoto1, Guillermo Posadas-Herrera1, Fuxun Yu1, Leo Uchida1, Akitoyo Ichinose2, Miako Sakaguchi2, Toshihiko Sunahara3, Corazon C Buerano4,1, Florencio P Tadena4, Ildefonso B Orbita4, Filipinas F Natividad4, Kouichi Morita1.
Abstract
In 2005, we isolated a new species of virus from mosquitoes in the Philippines. The virion was elliptical in shape and had a short single projection. The virus was named Tanay virus (TANAV) after the locality in which it was found. TANAV genomic RNA was a 9562 nt+poly-A positive strand, and polycistronic. The longest ORF contained putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP); however, conserved short motifs in the RdRP were permuted. TANAV was phylogenetically close to Negevirus, a recently proposed taxon of viruses isolated from haemophagic insects, and to some plant viruses, such as citrus leprosis virus C, hibiscus green spot virus and blueberry necrotic ring blotch virus. In this paper, we describe TANAV and the permuted structure of its RdRP, and discuss its phylogeny together with those of plant viruses and negevirus.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 24646751 DOI： 10.1099/vir.0.061887-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gen Virol ISSN： 0022-1317 Impact factor: 3.891