Genetic and phylogenetic analyses of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I variants from Melanesians with an without spastic myelopathy |
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Authors: | Vivek R Nerurkar Ki-Joon Song Rebecca R Melland Richard Yanagihara |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Building 36, Rm. 5B-21, 20892 Bethesda, MD |
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Abstract: | Molecular variants of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) have been isolated recently from lifelong residents
of remote Melanesian populations, including a Solomon Islander with tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I-associated myelopathy
(TSP/HAM) or HTLV-I myeloneuropathy. To clarify the genetic heterogeneity and molecular epidemiology of disease-associated
strains of HTLV-I, we enzymatically amplified, then directly sequenced representative regions of thegag, pol, env, andpX genes of HTLV-I strains from Melanesians with and without TSP/HAM, and aligned and compared these sequences with those of
HTLV-I strains from patients with TSP/HAM or adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma and from asymptomatic carriers from widely separated
and culturally disparate populations. Overall, the HTLV-I variant from the Solomon Islander with TSP/HAM, like HTLV-I strains
from asymptomatically infected Melanesians, diverged by approx 7% from cosmopolitan HTLV-I strain. No disease-specific viral
sequences were found. Gene phylogenies, as determined by the unweighted pair-goup method of assortment and by the maximum
parsimony method, indicated that the Melanesian and cosmopolitan strains of HTLV-I have evolved along separate geographically
dependent lineages, one comprised of HTLV-I strains from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and the other composed
of virus strains from Japan, India, the Caribbean, Polynesia, the Americas, and Africa. The total absence of nonhuman primates
in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands precludes any possibility that the Melanesian HTLV-I strains have evolved recently
from the simian homolog of HTLV-I. |
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