The
Calicivirus
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| The partial genome of a
highly divergent calicivirus was acquired
from a sewage sample from Kathmandu, Nepal.
It has tentatively been named
Secalivirus (Sewage
associated calici-like
virus;
SecaliV, JQ898339)
(Ng et al., 2012). The partial
genome sequence consisted of 4068 nt,
including a partial capsid gene, followed by
two ORFs of unknown function, and a 553 nt
long 3’ UTR ending with a poly-A tail.
Pairwise identity analysis suggested that
the SecaliV capsid protein was highly
divergent to those of Caliciviridae
(6-11% identity). |
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| References Ng, T.F., Marine, R., Wang, C., Simmonds, P., Kapusinszky, B., Bodhidatta, L., Oderinde, B.S., Wommack, K.E. and Delwart, E. (2012). High variety of known and new RNA and DNA viruses of diverse origins in untreated sewage. J. Virol. 86: 12161-12175. |