Exp Mol Med.
2011 Oct;43(10):587-595. 10.3858/emm.2011.43.10.066.
Comparative study of codon substitution patterns in foot-and-mouth disease virus (serotype O)
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- 1Supercomputing Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejon 305-806, Korea.
- 2Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. hss2003@snu.ac.kr
- 3Laboratory of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Institute of Health and Environment, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
- KMID: 1123371
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3858/emm.2011.43.10.066
Abstract
- We compared genetic variations in the VP1 gene of foot-and-mouth disease viruses (FMDVs) isolated since 2000 from various region of the world. We analyzed relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) and phylogenetic relationship between geographical regions, and calculated the genetic substitution patterns between Korean isolate and those from other countries. We calculated the ratios of synonymously substituted codons (SSC) to all observed substitutions and developed a new analytical parameter, EMC (the ratio of exact matching codons within each synonymous substitution group) to investigate more detailed substitution patterns within each synonymous codon group. We observed that FMDVs showed distinct RSCU patterns according to phylogenetic relationships in the same serotype (serotype O). Moreover, while the SSC and EMC values of FMDVs decreased according to phylogenetic distance, G + C composition at the third codon position was strictly conserved. Although there was little variation among the SSC values of 18 amino acids, more dynamic differences were observed in EMC values. The EMC values of 4- and 6-fold degenerate amino acids showed significantly lower values while most 2-fold degenerate amino acids showed no significant difference. Our findings suggest that different EMC patterns among the 18 amino acids might be an important factor in determining the direction of evolution in FMDV.
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