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- Title
Identification of novel totiviruses from the ascomycetous fungus Geotrichum candidum.
- Authors
Khan, Haris Ahmed; Kondo, Hideki; Shahi, Sabitree; Bhatti, Muhammad Faraz; Suzuki, Nobuhiro
- Abstract
Mycoviruses are widely distributed across the kingdom Fungi, including ascomycetous yeast strains of the class Saccharomycetes. Geotrichum candidum is an important fungal pathogen belonging to Saccharomycetes and has a diverse host range. Here, we report the characterization of four new classical totiviruses from two distinct Geotrichum candidum strains from Pakistan. The four identified viruses were tentatively named "Geotrichum candidum totivirus 1, 2, 3a, and 3b" (GcTV1-3b). The complete dsRNA genomes of the identified totiviruses are 4621, 4592, 4576, and 4576 bp in length, respectively. All totivirus genomes have two open reading frames, encoding a capsid protein (CP) and an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP), respectively. The downstream RdRP domain is assumed to be expressed as a CP-RdRP fusion product via -1 frameshifting mediated by a heptameric slippery site. Sequence comparisons and phylogenetic analysis showed that each of the discovered viruses belongs to a new species of the genus Totivirus in the family Totiviridae, with GcTV1 and GcTV3 (a and b strains) clustering in one subgroup and GcTV2 in another subgroup.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; RNA replicase; FUNGI; ASCOMYCETES; DOUBLE-stranded RNA; FUNGAL viruses
- Publication
Archives of Virology, 2022, Vol 167, Issue 12, p2833
- ISSN
0304-8608
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00705-022-05611-7