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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages 1757-1772Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02745-15
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- National Institute of Mental Health [1ZIAMH002592]
- International Max Planck Research School for Infectious Diseases and Immunology
- HHS \ NIH \ National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) [R01 GM092706]
- Morris Animal Foundation (MAF) [D14ZO-94]
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Gibbon ape leukemia viruses (GALVs) are part of a larger group of pathogenic gammaretroviruses present across phylogenetically diverse host species of Australasian mammals. Despite the biomedical utility of GALVs as viral vectors and in cancer gene therapy, full genome sequences have not been determined for all of the five identified GALV strains, nor has a comprehensive evolutionary analysis been performed. We therefore generated complete genomic sequences for each GALV strain using hybridization capture and high-throughput sequencing. The four strains of GALV isolated from gibbons formed a monophyletic clade that was closely related to the woolly monkey virus (WMV), which is a GALV strain that likely originated in a gibbon host. The GALV-WMV clade in turn formed a sister group to the koala retroviruses (KoRVs). Genomic signatures of episodic diversifying selection were detected among the gammaretroviruses with concentration in the env gene across the GALV strains that were particularly oncogenic and KoRV strains that were potentially exogenous, likely reflecting their adaptation to the host immune system. In vitro studies involving vectors chimeric between GALV and KoRV-B established that variable regions A and B of the surface unit of the envelope determine which receptor is used by a viral strain to enter host cells.
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