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Virus-host coevolution: common patterns of nucleotide motif usage in Flaviviridae and their hosts

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Lobo, Francisco P., Mota, Bruno E. F., Pena, Sérgio D. J., Azevedo, Vasco, Macedo, Andréa M., Tauch, Andreas, Machado, Carlos R., Franco, Glória R.·2009·PLoS ONE

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Virus-host biological interaction is a continuous coevolutionary process involving both host immune system and viral escape mechanisms. Flaviviridae family is composed of fast evolving RNA viruses that infects vertebrate (mammals and birds) and/or invertebrate (ticks and mosquitoes) organisms. These host groups are very distinct life forms separated by a long evolutionary time, so lineage-specific anti-viral mechanisms are likely to have evolved. Flaviviridae viruses which infect a single host lineage would be subjected to specific host-induced pressures and, therefore, selected by them. In this work we compare the genomic evolutionary patterns of Flaviviridae viruses and their hosts in an attempt to uncover coevolutionary processes inducing common features in such disparate groups. Especially, we have analyzed dinucleotide and codon usage patterns in the coding regions of vertebrate and invertebrate organisms as well as in Flaviviridae viruses which specifically infect one or both host types. The two host groups posses very distinctive dinucleotide and codon usage patterns. A pronounced CpG under-representation was found in the vertebrate group, possibly induced by the methylation-deamination process, as well as a prominent TpA decrease. The invertebrate group displayed only a TpA frequency reduction bias. Flaviviridae viruses mimicked host nucleotide motif usage in a host-specific manner. Vertebrate-infecting viruses possessed under-representation of CpG and TpA, and insect-only viruses displayed only a TpA under-representation bias. Single-host Flaviviridae members which persistently infect mammals or insect hosts (Hepacivirus and insect-only Flavivirus, respectively) were found to posses a codon usage profile more similar to that of their hosts than to related Flaviviridae. We demonstrated that vertebrates and mosquitoes genomes are under very distinct lineage-specific constraints, and Flaviviridae viruses which specifically infect these lineages appear to be subject to the same evolutionary pressures that shaped their host coding regions, evidencing the lineage-specific coevolutionary processes between the viral and host groups.

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  • Suppression of CpG dinucleotides in these and many other small viruses occurs at all three possible codon locations, not only at the codon pair boundary.

    “Suppression of CpG dinucleotides in these and many other small viruses occurs at all three possible codon locations, not only at the codon pair boundary.”

    From Codon Pair Bias Is a Direct Consequence of Dinucleotide Bias (2016) · cites this paper as Lobo et al., 2009

    The Codon Usage Similarity section (page unavailable) reports under-representation of CpG-containing codons in vertebrate-infecting viruses, supporting suppression within codons, not just at codon boundaries. The Dinucleotide Composition Analysis section reports broader viral CpG depletion, but the paper does not establish suppression separately at all three codon locations across the many small viruses claimed; it also notes viral groups with little CpG bias. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • The two groups of viruses are exposed to different selection pressures and the pressure is imposed by the respective hosts.

    “suggesting that the two groups of viruses are exposed to different selection pressures and that the pressure is imposed by the respective hosts (Lobo et al., 2009).”

    From Codon Pair Bias Is a Direct Consequence of Dinucleotide Bias (2016) · cites this paper as Lobo et al., 2009

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Lobo, F. P., Mota, B. E. F., Pena, S. D. J., Azevedo, V., Macedo, A. M., Tauch, A., Machado, C. R., & Franco, G. R.
Affiliations
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR)
  • Bielefeld University (DE)
Corresponding author
Lobo, Francisco P.
Venue
PLoS ONE
Published
2009-07-20
Volume
4
Issue
7
Pages
e6282
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1978006472
Cited by
191
References
98
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2.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Keywords
host-virus coevolution, Flaviviridae, codon usage bias, host-virus interaction, Hepacivirus, flavivirus, mosquito hosts, vertebrate hosts, DNA methylation
MeSH terms
Animals, Base Sequence, Codon, Disease Vectors, Biological Evolution, Phylogeny, Flaviviridae, Host-Pathogen Interactions

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