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Article

Whole Genome Classification and Phylogenetic Analyses of Rotavirus B strains from the United States

by
Frances K. Shepherd
1,
Diana Maria Herrera-Ibata
2,3,
Elizabeth Porter
2,
Nitipong Homwong
4,
Richard Hesse
2,3,
Jianfa Bai
2,3 and
Douglas G. Marthaler
2,3,*
1
Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
2
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
3
Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
4
Department of Animal Science, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen Campus, Kamphaeng Saen, Chatuchak, Bankok 10900, Thailand
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Pathogens 2018, 7(2), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens7020044
Submission received: 16 March 2018 / Revised: 13 April 2018 / Accepted: 14 April 2018 / Published: 18 April 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rotavirus Epidemiology: Host, Climate and Vaccine Influences)
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Abstract

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Rotaviruses (RVs) are a major etiological agent of acute viral gastroenteritis in humans and young animals, with rotavirus B (RVB) often detected in suckling and weaned pigs. Group A rotavirus classification is currently based on the two outer capsid proteins, VP7 and VP4, and the middle layer protein, VP6. Using RVB strains generated in this study and reference sequences from GenBank, pairwise identity frequency graphs and phylogenetic trees were constructed for the eleven gene segments of RVB to estimate the nucleotide identity cutoff values for different genotypes and determine the genotype diversity per gene segment. Phylogenetic analysis of VP7, VP4, VP6, VP1–VP3, and NSP1–NSP5 identified 26G, 5P, 13I, 5R, 5C, 5M, 8A, 10N, 6T, 4E, and 7H genotypes, respectively. The analysis supports the previously proposed cutoff values for the VP7, VP6, NSP1, and NSP3 gene segments (80%, 81%, 76% and 78%, respectively) and suggests new cutoff values for the VP4, VP1, VP2, VP3, NSP2, NSP4, and NSP5 (80%, 78%, 79%, 77% 83%, 76%, and 79%, respectively). Reassortment events were detected between the porcine RVB strains from our study. This research describes the genome constellations for the complete genome of Group B rotaviruses in different host species.

1. Introduction

Rotaviruses (RVs) are a major etiological agent causing acute viral gastroenteritis in humans and young animals, including young calves, weaning and post-weaning pigs [1,2]. RVs are members of the Reoviridae family, with a genome consisting of eleven double-stranded RNA gene segments that encode six structural proteins (VP1–VP4, VP6, and VP7) and five or six nonstructural proteins (NSP1–NSP5/NSP6) [3]. The triple-layered capsid is comprised of the outer layer of VP7 and VP4, the inner layer of VP6, and the core VP2. RVs are classified into eight species (A-H) based on antigenic relatedness or sequencing of the inner capsid protein VP6. Two tentative species, I and J, have recently been identified in fecal specimens from sheltered dogs in Hungary and guano samples from bats from Serbia, respectively [4,5,6]. The most common species infecting animals, including humans, are rotavirus A, B and C (RVA, RVB, and RVC, respectively), with RVA being the most prevalent, whereas Groups D–H only infect animals [3,7].
Rotavirus B (RVB) was first identified as the cause of severe gastroenteritis among adults in China from late 1982 to early 1983. RVB continued to be responsible for diarrheal disease in humans in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. In addition to humans, RVB strains have been detected in different host species such as rats [16], cattle [17,18,19,20,21,22], goats [23,24], sheep [25], and swine [26,27,28]. RVB has yet to be isolated in cell culture, which has hampered obtaining serological information on this species.
RVA strains have been well characterized, and, currently, the Rotavirus Classification Working Group (RCWG) maintains an RVA classification system calculating percent identity cutoff values to categorize the genotypes for the eleven segments of RVA [29]. Genotype constellations are denoted as Gx-P[x]-Ix-Rx-Cx-Mx-Ax-Nx-Tx-Ex-Hx representing the VP7-VP4-VP6-VP1-VP2-VP3-NSP1-NSP2-NSP3-NSP4-NSP5/6 encoding genes, respectively. The RVB percent identity cutoff values of 80%, 81%, 70%, 76%, 75%, 78%, 70% and 78% have been established for segments VP7, VP6, VP3, NSP1, NSP2, NSP3, NSP4, and NSP5, respectively [28,30,31,32,33,34]. Based on these cutoff values, 24 G [35], 13 I [31], 4 M [30], 7 A [34], 4 N [32], 4 T [30], 4 E [30], and 6 H [33] genotypes have been identified. In the present study, RVB nucleotide sequences of several porcine strains and a single caprine strain were determined to investigate the genetic diversity and illustrate the phylogenetic relationships of all 11 RVB gene segments to identify distinct genotypes and reassortment events.

2. Materials and Methods

Extraction of RNA from clinical samples used Trizol reagent (Ambion, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and DirectZol filter columns (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA, USA). Full-length cDNA was produced by the single primer amplification technique (SPAT) from dsRNA [36,37]. Briefly, DNA primers were ligated onto the 3′ ends of the double-stranded RNA genome segments, and RT-PCR was carried out using primers complementary to the ligated sequences. The cDNA was prepared for next-generation sequencing (NGS) with the NexTera XT library preparation kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). Sequencing was performed on the Miseq (Illumina) NGS platform using the 2 × 150 bp run option. Raw de-multiplexed sequencing reads were trimmed and de novo assembled using the CLC Genomics Workbench (Qiagen Bioinformatics/CLC Bio, Redwood City, CA, USA). The complete CDS for the NSP genes were obtained, whereas some of the VP genes for specific strains could not be obtained (VP4 and VP2 from strain RVB/Pig-wt/USA/KS2/2012; VP1 and VP3 from strain RVB/Goat-wt/USA/CA22/2014) due to a low viral read count. The porcine and caprine RVB nucleotide sequences used in the present study have been submitted to GenBank (NCBI) and under the following accession numbers: NSP1 (MF966596–MF966617), NSP2 (MG271985–MG272006), NSP3 (MG272007–MG272028), NSP4 (MG272029–MG272050), NSP5 (MG272051–MG272072), VP1 (MG272073–MG272093), VP2 (MG272094–MG272114), VP3 (MG272115–MG272135), VP4 (MG272136–MG272161), VP6 (MG272162–MG272183), and VP7 (MG272184–MG272206).
The RVB sequences from this study and the RVB sequences available from the GenBank were aligned using Muscle alignment in Geneious 10.1.3 software [38]. Strains with less than 80% of the open reading frame were excluded from analysis. To determine the genotype classification of the eleven dsRNA segments, phylogenetic trees and pairwise nucleotide (nt) identity frequency graphs were created, and the cutoff values were defined as the percentages separating nucleotide identities between inter and intra genotypes [29]. Kruskal–Wallis chi-squared rank sum test was run to determine host nucleotide identities difference per gene segment. The phylogenetic trees were constructed by maximum likelihood using general time reversible substitution model [39] with 500 bootstrap replicates in Geneious software.

3. Results

Porcine fecal samples (n = 21) from farms in Illinois and Kansas and a single goat fecal sample from California were submitted to the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Kansas State University between 2012 and 2014 for sequencing. Pairwise identity frequency graphs (Supplementary Materials, Figure S1) and phylogenetic trees were constructed for the eleven gene segments of RVB strains generated in the present study and RVB sequences available from GenBank to assess nucleotide identity between the RVB host species and determine the nucleotide percent identity cutoff values and number of genotypes per gene segment. Porcine median nucleotide identities were significantly lower than bovine and human for all gene segments except VP1, VP2, NSP1, NSP2, and NSP3 (Table 1). Human strains had the highest median nucleotide identities for all but the VP3, NSP1, NSP3, NSP4, and NSP5 segments.
While nt cutoff values identified in this study were consistent with already established cutoffs for the VP7, VP6, NSP1, and NSP3 gene segments (80%, 81%, 76% and 78%, respectively), pairwise identity frequency graphs indicated new nt cutoff values for the NSP2, NSP4, NSP5 and VP3 (83%, 76%, 79% and 77%, respectively; Table 2). In addition, we propose nt cutoff values of 80%, 78% and 79% for VP4, VP1, and VP2, respectively. The NSP5 gene segment includes an additional genotype to the six genotypes reported by [33], classifying the caprine strains and the Japanese bovine strains within the same genotype (Figure 1). Phylogenetic analysis showed no interspecies mixing of genotypes among porcine, human, or murine strains while goat and bovine strains shared clades for all segments except VP1.
Murine, human and caprine RVB strains had conserved genome constellations of G1-P[1]-I1-R1-C1-M1-A1-N1-T1-E1-H1, G2-P[2]-I2-R2-C2-M2-A2-N2-T2-E2-H2, and G3-P[3]-I3-R3-C3-M3-A3-N3-T3-E3-H3, respectively (Table 3). The Japanese bovine strains and the US caprine strains belong to the same genotypes for the available gene segments. The porcine strains from Kansas show a genome constellation of G14/G16-P[4]-I13-R4-C4-M4-A8-N10-T5-E4-H7. The Illinois strains share the same genome constellation of G16-P[5]-I13-R4-C4-M4-A8-N10-T4-E4-H7 except for the gene segment VP4, which contains P[4] and P[5] genotypes. Reassortment among gene segments of porcine strains was indicated by the conserved genotypes G16, I13, R4, C4, M4, A8, N10, E4, and H7 associating with multiple VP4 and NSP3 (P[4]/P[5] and T4/T5, respectively).

4. Discussion

Until now, genotype classifications for the RVB gene segments VP1, VP2, and VP4 were lacking. This study identified percent identity nucleotide cutoff values for VP1, VP2, and VP4 while updating VP3, NSP2, NSP4 and NSP5 cutoff values using additional porcine RVB strains from the US. Compared to RVA and RVC, the RVB nucleotide percent identity cutoff values are lower for all gene segments except for the VP7, which shares the same nucleotide cutoff value with RVA [29,40]. The lower cutoff values suggest higher sequence diversity of RVB compared to other rotavirus species, which has been discussed in previous studies as well [22,27]. Refuted by more recent studies illustrating that the range of percent identities of VP6 are between 65% and 100% for both RVA and RVB [4], RVB does appear to be more diverse when considering the number of genotypes present in certain hosts. In swine, only three and eight VP6 genotypes have been identified for RVA and RVC, respectively, compared to ten VP6 genotypes for RVB [31,40,41]. There are 17 VP7 genotypes of RVB in swine compared to 12 and 15 VP7 genotypes in RVA and RVC, respectively [42].
Our dataset indicated a higher diversity of RVB genotypes in swine hosts compared to other hosts, which has been observed in swine RVC as well. Percent identities of swine RVC VP7 are notably lower than human and bovine strains, and greater numbers of genotypes of nearly all gene segments exist for swine RVC than in other hosts [40,43,44]. This highlights the important contribution of swine to the genetic diversity of RVB and RVC and, as others have suggested, may indicate swine are the main hosts for these viruses [44]. While the range of VP6 percent identities found in this study agrees with previous work, we found that only sequences of porcine origin had percent identities lower than 70%, and it is possible that rotaviruses evolve more heterogeneously in swine than in other hosts.
Reassortment among rotaviruses is a common phenomenon due to their segmented genomes [45,46]. A previous study investigated the VP6 and VP7 segments among many of the reference porcine strains used in this study and found frequent reassortment [31]. Even within genotypes, substantial genetic diversity can be present, and reassortment among sub-clades within human-specific RVB genotypes [47]. In the samples sequenced for this study, we found evidence of frequent VP4 segment reassortment, which is likely due to coinfection of RVB within swine. Reassortment of the outer capsid VP7 and VP4 proteins, in particular, would be expected to confer an evolutionary advantage since they are the targets of neutralization and reassortment help strains escape immune recognition.
Phylogenetic analysis exhibited host-specific RVB genotypes for murine, human and porcine species, and genotype constellations for these species did not show cross-species reassortment events, which is in contrast to RVA where multiple interspecies events were reported, especially between humans and domestic animals such as swine, bovine, and horses [29,48,49]. Human–porcine and bovine–porcine reassortment of the VP3 and VP6 genes was reported in RVC [40]. The exception to the RVB host specificity found in this study was the phylogenetic clustering of bovine and caprine RVB strains [24]. Whole genome sequencing of goat RVA strains reveal close phylogenetic relationship with bovine strains, pointing to historical reassortment events between the two host species [50,51,52]. Interspecies transmission of RVB could have occurred to produce this genetic similarity, although the bovine and goat strains were geographically separated, and any interspecies reassortment probably happened many years ago. Although we did not observe geographical separation of genotypes, additional sequencing and epidemiological studies could elucidate prevalence of genotypes in other countries.
In summary, a provisional genome-based classification for RVB strains from human, bovine, caprine, porcine and murine species was established, providing relevant information to understanding the evolution and epidemiology of RVB. Future research should include the sequencing and analysis of more RVB strains to ensure the consistency of the nucleotide cutoff values, remaining the true diversity of RVB.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/7/2/44/s1, Supplemental Figure S1: Nucleotide pairwise identity frequency graphs of rotavirus B genes.

Acknowledgments

The study was partial funding by the National Pork Board, Project #12-099.

Author Contributions

J.B., D.H., F.K.S., and D.G.M. conceived and designed the experiments; E.P. conducted the sequencing. F.K.S., D.M.H.-I., and N.H. analyzed the data; F.K.S., D.M.H.-I., and D.G.M. wrote the paper.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Pathogens 07 00044 g001a 550Pathogens 07 00044 g001b 550Pathogens 07 00044 g001c 550Pathogens 07 00044 g001d 550Pathogens 07 00044 g001e 550Pathogens 07 00044 g001f 550
Figure 1. Phylogenetic trees of the 11 gene segments of RVB (A–K). Bootstrap percentages (per 500 replicates) are shown at nodes. Values below 80% are not shown. Sequences are colored according to host species. Dashed lines represent the nucleotide (nt) cutoff value with genotypes labeled by brackets.
Figure 1. Phylogenetic trees of the 11 gene segments of RVB (A–K). Bootstrap percentages (per 500 replicates) are shown at nodes. Values below 80% are not shown. Sequences are colored according to host species. Dashed lines represent the nucleotide (nt) cutoff value with genotypes labeled by brackets.
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Table 1. Ranges of nucleotide percent identities by host species and gene segment.
Table 1. Ranges of nucleotide percent identities by host species and gene segment.
Gene SegmentPorcineBovineHuman
RangeMedianRangeMedianRangeMedian
VP755.0–10074.0 b77.0–10094.0 a91.0–10098.0 c
VP464.0–10075.5 a81.0–10082.0 ab90.0–10098.0 b
VP663.0–10077.0 b82.0–10087.0 a92.0–10098.0 a
VP178.0–100100.0 a94.0–10094.0 ab90.0–10098.0 b
VP282.0–100100 a77.0–10077.0 ab90.0–10098.0 b
VP372.0–10097.0 b92.0–10099.0 a90.0–10098.0 a
NSP167.0–10083.0 a71.0–10098 a91.0–10098.0 b
NSP266.0–10086.0 a82.0–10089.0 ab93.0–10099.0 b
NSP358.0–100100 b94.0–10099 a89.0–10098.0 a
NSP477.0–10093.0 b96.0–10099.0 a90.0–10098.0 a
NSP544.0–10081.0 b77.0–10094.0 a89.0–10097.0 c
Values with superscripts “a”, “b”, and “c” are statistically different from one another (p-value < 0.05) within the same gene segment based on a Kruskal–Wallis rank sum test.
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Table 2. Proposed nucleotide cutoff values and genotypes for rotavirus B whole genome classification.
Table 2. Proposed nucleotide cutoff values and genotypes for rotavirus B whole genome classification.
Gene SegmentNumber of SequencesPreviously Proposed Nucleotide CutoffReferenceCurrently Proposed Nucleotide CutoffGenotypes in Each Host Species
MurineHumanBovineCaprinePorcine
VP741980%Marthaler et al., 201280%G1G2G3, G5G3G4, G6–G26
VP464----80%P[1]P[2]P[3]P[3]P[4], P[5]
VP614481%Marthaler et al., 201481%I1I2I3I3I4–I13
VP154----78%R1R2R5R3R4
VP257----79%C1C2C3, C5C3C4
VP36170%Hayashi-Miyamoto et al., 201777% *M1M2M3M3M4, M5
NSP16876%Suzuki et al., 201176%A1A2A4, A5A3, A4A6–A8
NSP28975%Suzuki et al., 201283% *N1N2N3, N4N3N5–N10
NSP35878%Hayashi-Miyamoto et al., 201778%T1T2T3T3T4–T6
NSP46870%Hayashi-Miyamoto et al., 201776% *E1E2E3E3E4
NSP59578%Suzuki et al., 201279% *H1H2H3, H5H3H4, H6, H7
* Indicates cutoff value different from previously proposed value.
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Table 3. Genome constellations for RVB strains with at least 6 gene segments.
Table 3. Genome constellations for RVB strains with at least 6 gene segments.
VP7VP4VP6VP1VP2VP3NSP1NSP2NSP3NSP4NSP5
RVB/Rat-wt/USA/IDIR/XXXXG1P[1]I1R1C1M1A1N1T1E1H1
RVB/Human-wt ^G2P[2]I2R2C2M2A2N2T2E2H2
RVB/Bovine-wt/IND/DB176/2001G5P[3]I3R5C5naA5N4nanaH5
RVB/Bovine-wt/IND/RUBV226/2004G5P[3]I3R5C5naA5N4nanana
RVB/Bovine-wt/IND/RUBV282/2005G5P[3]I3R5C5naA5N4nanaH5
RVB/Bovine-wt/JPN/G-2006/2006/G3PXG3P[3]nananaM3A3N3T3E3H3
RVB/Bovine-wt/JPN/IS-1/1999/G3PXG3P[3]**naM3A3*T3E3na
RVB/Bovine-wt/JPN/IS-2/2002/G3PXG3P[3]**C3M3nanaT3E3na
RVB/Goat-wt/USA/CA22/2014G3P[3]I3naC3naA3N3T3E3H3
RVB/Goat-wt/USA/Minnesota-1/2016G3P[3]I3R3C3M3A3N3T3E3H3
RVB/Pig-tc/USA/LS00011_Ohio/XXXX/GXP[X]G12P[4]I13R4C4M4A8N10T6E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL10/2013 & IL10B/2013G16P[4]/P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL11/2013G16P[4]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL12/2013 & IL12B/2013G16P[4]/P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL13/2013G16P[4]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL14/2013 & IL14B/2013G16P[4]/P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL15/2013 & L15B/2013G16P[4]/P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL16/2013G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL17/2013G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL18/2013G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL19/2013G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL20/2013G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL21/2013G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL3/2012G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL4/2012G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL5/2012G16P[4]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL6/2012G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL7/2012G16P[4]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL8/2013 & IL8B/2013G16P[4]/P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/IL9/2013G16P[5]I13R4C4M4A8N10T4E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/KS1/2012G16P[4]I13R4C4M4A8N10T5E4H7
RVB/Pig-wt/USA/KS2/2012 & KS2B/2012G14/G16naI13R4naM4A8N10T5E4H7
* indicates partial sequences with less than 80% of the ORF that were not included in the analysis. ^ indicates all human strains. Orange indicates pig RVB genes, Green indicates bovine and goat RVB gene segments. na: not available.

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