PMID- 32317760 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20201207 LR - 20210421 IS - 2045-2322 (Electronic) IS - 2045-2322 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 1 DP - 2020 Apr 21 TI - Identification and molecular characterization of the first complete genome sequence of Human Parechovirus type 15. PG - 6759 LID - 10.1038/s41598-020-63467-w [doi] LID - 6759 AB - Using a metagenomics approach, we have determined the first full-length genome sequence of a human parechovirus type 15 (HPeV15) strain, isolated from a child with acute flaccid paralysis and co-infected with EV-A71. HPeV15 is a rarely reported type. To date, no full-length genome sequence of HPeV15 is available in the GenBank database, where only limited VP1 sequences of this virus are available. Pairwise comparisons of the complete VP1 nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences revealed that the study strain belongs to type 15 as it displayed 79.6% nucleotide and 93.4% amino acid identity with the HPeV15 prototype strain. Comparative analysis of available genomic regions and phylogenetic analysis using the P2 and P3 coding regions revealed low nucleotide identity to HPeV reference genomes. Phylogenetic and similarity plot analyses showed that genomic recombination events might have occurred in the UTRs and nonstructural region during HPeV15 evolution. The study strain has high similarity features with different variants of HPeV3 suggesting intertypic recombination. Our data contributes to the scarce data available on HPeVs in Africa and provides valuable information for future studies that aim to understand the evolutionary history, molecular epidemiology or biological and pathogenic properties of HPeV15. FAU - Fernandez-Garcia, Maria Dolores AU - Fernandez-Garcia MD AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0336-6596 AD - Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal. dolores.fernandez@yahoo.es. FAU - Simon-Loriere, Etienne AU - Simon-Loriere E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8420-7743 AD - Institut Pasteur Paris, Paris, France. FAU - Kebe, Ousmane AU - Kebe O AD - Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal. FAU - Sakuntabhai, A AU - Sakuntabhai A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9099-6937 AD - Institut Pasteur Paris, Paris, France. FAU - Ndiaye, Kader AU - Ndiaye K AD - Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200421 PL - England TA - Sci Rep JT - Scientific reports JID - 101563288 SB - IM MH - Genome, Viral/*genetics MH - Genomics MH - Humans MH - Metagenomics/methods MH - Molecular Sequence Annotation MH - Open Reading Frames/genetics MH - Paralysis/*genetics/virology MH - Parechovirus/*genetics/isolation & purification/pathogenicity MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - *Whole Genome Sequencing PMC - PMC7174385 COIS- The authors declare no competing interests. EDAT- 2020/04/23 06:00 MHDA- 2020/12/15 06:00 PMCR- 2020/04/21 CRDT- 2020/04/23 06:00 PHST- 2019/10/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/03/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/04/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/04/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/12/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/04/21 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1038/s41598-020-63467-w [pii] AID - 63467 [pii] AID - 10.1038/s41598-020-63467-w [doi] PST - epublish SO - Sci Rep. 2020 Apr 21;10(1):6759. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-63467-w.