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U-CAN-seq: A Universal Competition Assay by Nanopore Sequencing
| العنوان: | U-CAN-seq: A Universal Competition Assay by Nanopore Sequencing |
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| المؤلفون: | Jennifer Diaz, John Sears, Che-Kang Chang, Jane Burdick, Isabella Law, Wes Sanders, Colton Linnertz, Paul Sylvester, Nathaniel Moorman, Martin T. Ferris, Mark T. Heise |
| المصدر: | Viruses, Vol 16, Iss 4, p 636 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | competition assay, nanopore sequencing, alphavirus, RNA virus, viral fitness, Microbiology, QR1-502 |
| الوصف: | RNA viruses quickly evolve subtle genotypic changes that can have major impacts on viral fitness and host range, with potential consequences for human health. It is therefore important to understand the evolutionary fitness of novel viral variants relative to well-studied genotypes of epidemic viruses. Competition assays are an effective and rigorous system with which to assess the relative fitness of viral genotypes. However, it is challenging to quickly and cheaply distinguish and quantify fitness differences between very similar viral genotypes. Here, we describe a protocol for using reverse transcription PCR in combination with commercial nanopore sequencing services to perform competition assays on untagged RNA viruses. Our assay, called the Universal Competition Assay by Nanopore Sequencing (U-CAN-seq), is relatively cheap and highly sensitive. We used a well-studied N24A mutation in the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) nsp3 gene to confirm that we could detect a competitive disadvantage using U-CAN-seq. We also used this approach to show that mutations to the CHIKV 5′ conserved sequence element that disrupt sequence but not structure did not affect the fitness of CHIKV. However, similar mutations to an adjacent CHIKV stem loop (SL3) did cause a fitness disadvantage compared to wild-type CHIKV, suggesting that structure-independent, primary sequence determinants in this loop play an important role in CHIKV biology. Our novel findings illustrate the utility of the U-CAN-seq competition assay. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1999-4915 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/4/636; https://doaj.org/toc/1999-4915; https://doaj.org/article/afcc2e359b2944a89cbb7635dfd9a8a0 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/v16040636 |
| الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.3390/v16040636 https://doaj.org/article/afcc2e359b2944a89cbb7635dfd9a8a0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.4C5EC6BF |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19994915 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/v16040636 |