Volume 8, Number 3—March 2002
Research
Molecular Classification of Enteroviruses Not Identified by Neutralization Tests
Hideyuki Kubo
, Nobuhiro Iritani, and Yoshiyuki Seto
, Nobuhiro Iritani, and Yoshiyuki SetoTable 5
Differences in deduced VP1 amino acid sequences (aa 1-297) of human enterovirus 71 strains BrCr, OC/00168, OC/00219, OC/00260, and OC/00261, Osaka, Japan, 2000
| Amino acid position | Strain | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrCra | OC/00168 | OC/00219 | OC/00260 | OC/00261 | |
| 18 | Lys | Arg | Arg | Arg | Arg |
| 22 | Pro | Gln | Gln | Gln | Gln |
| 30 | Pro | Gln | Gln | Gln | Gln |
| 31 | Asp | Asn | Asn | Asn | Asn |
| 43 | Lys | Glu | Glu | Glu | Glu |
| 58 | Ala | Thr | Thr | Thr | Thr |
| 98 | Lys | Glu | Glu | Glu | Glu |
| 145 | Arg | Glu | Glu | Glu | Glu |
| 164 | Asp | Glu | Glu | Glu | Glu |
| 167 | Asp | Glu | Glu | Glu | Glu |
| 172 | Pro | Gln | Gln | Gln | Gln |
| 183 | Ser | Leu | Leu | Leu | Leu |
| 184 | Ser | Thr | Thr | Thr | Thr |
| 244 | Glu | Lys | Lys | Lys | Lys |
| 246 | Ser | Pro | Pro | Pro | Pro |
| 249 | Ile | Val | Val | Val | Val |
| 275 | Ser | Ala | Ala | Ala | Ala |
| 282 | Asp | Asn | Asn | Ser | Ser |
aVP1 nucleotide sequence was obtained from GenBank (accession no. U22521) and translated into the deduced amino acid sequence.
