Incipient functional SARS-CoV-2 diversification identified through neural network haplotype maps

Since its introduction in the human population, SARS-CoV-2 has evolved into multiple clades, but the events in its intrahost diversification are not well understood. Here, we compare three-dimensional (3D) self-organized neural haplotype maps (SOMs) of SARS-CoV-2 from thirty individual nasopharyngeal diagnostic samples obtained within a 19-day interval in Madrid (Spain), at the time of transition between clades 19 and 20. SOMs have been trained with the haplotype repertoire present in the mutant spectra of the nsp12- and spike (S)-coding regions. Each SOM consisted of a dominant neuron (displaying the maximum frequency), surrounded by a low-frequency neuron cloud. The sequence of the master (dominant) neuron was either identical to that of the reference Wuhan-Hu-1 genome or differed from it at one nucleotide position. Six different deviant haplotype sequences were identified among the master neurons. Some of the substitutions in the neural clouds affected critical sites of the nsp12-nsp8-nsp7 polymerase complex and resulted in altered kinetics of RNA synthesis in an in vitro primer extension assay. Thus, the analysis has identified mutations that are relevant to modification of viral RNA synthesis, present in the mutant clouds of SARS-CoV-2 quasispecies. These mutations most likely occurred during intrahost diversification in several COVID-19 patients, during an initial stage of the pandemic, and within a brief time period.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:121

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 121(2024), 10 vom: 05. März, Seite e2317851121

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Delgado, Soledad [VerfasserIn]
Somovilla, Pilar [VerfasserIn]
Ferrer-Orta, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Martínez-González, Brenda [VerfasserIn]
Vázquez-Monteagudo, Sergi [VerfasserIn]
Muñoz-Flores, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Soria, María Eugenia [VerfasserIn]
García-Crespo, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
de Ávila, Ana Isabel [VerfasserIn]
Durán-Pastor, Antoni [VerfasserIn]
Gadea, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
López-Galíndez, Cecilio [VerfasserIn]
Moran, Federico [VerfasserIn]
Lorenzo-Redondo, Ramon [VerfasserIn]
Verdaguer, Nuria [VerfasserIn]
Perales, Celia [VerfasserIn]
Domingo, Esteban [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Clade transition
Intrahost evolution
Journal Article
RNA, Viral
Self-organized maps
Viral Nonstructural Proteins
Viral quasispecies

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 01.03.2024

Date Revised 14.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.2317851121

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369066065