Discovery of a subgenotype of human coronavirus NL63 associated with severe lower respiratory tract infection in China, 2018

Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) is primarily associated with common cold in children, elderly and immunocompromised individuals. Outbreaks caused by HCoV-NL63 are rare. Here we report a cluster of HCoV-NL63 cases with severe lower respiratory tract infection that arose in Guangzhou, China, in 2018. Twenty-three hospitalized children were confirmed to be HCoV-NL63 positive, and most of whom were hospitalized with severe pneumonia or acute bronchitis. Whole genomes of HCoV-NL63 were obtained using next-generation sequencing. Phylogenetic and single amino acid polymorphism analyses showed that this outbreak was associated with two subgenotypes (C3 and B) of HCoV-NL63. Half of patients were identified to be related to a new subgenotype C3. One unique amino acid mutation at I507 L in spike protein receptor binding domain (RBD) was detected, which segregated this subgenotype C3 from other known subgenotypes. Pseudotyped virus bearing the I507 L mutation in RBD showed enhanced entry into host cells as compared to the prototype virus. This study proved that HCoV-NL63 was undergoing continuous mutation and has the potential to cause severe lower respiratory disease in humans.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Emerging microbes & infections - 9(2020), 1 vom: 15., Seite 246-255

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Yanqun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Wenkuan [VerfasserIn]
Gan, Mian [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Lu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhaoyong [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Airu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Guoxian [VerfasserIn]
Zhuang, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Jiaying [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Dehui [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Shuyan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Duo [VerfasserIn]
Mok, Chris Ka Pun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Fuchun [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Jingxian [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Rong [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Jincun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Human coronavirus NL63
Journal Article
New subgenotype
Phylogenetic analysis
Pneumonia
Viral entry
Whole-genome sequencing

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Date Completed 16.03.2020

Date Revised 28.04.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/22221751.2020.1717999

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305919814