Volume 17, Number 8—August 2011
Dispatch
Porcine Rotavirus Closely Related to Novel Group of Human Rotaviruses
Mitsutaka Wakuda, Tomihiko Ide, Jun Sasaki, Satoshi Komoto, Junichi Ishii, Takeshi Sanekata, and Koki Taniguchi
Table
Identities of nucleotide and amino acid sequences of VP4, VP6, VP7, and NSP4 of porcine rotavirus strain SKA-1 with those of group B and a novel group of rotaviruses*
| Strain | Species | Group | % Identity of nucleotide (amino acid) sequences |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VP4 | VP6 | VP7 | NSP4 | |||
| J19 | Human | Novel | 59.3 (52.0) | 72.9 (76.8) | 64.4 (56.3) | 62.1 (36.1) |
| B219 | Human | Novel | 58.3 (51.7) | 72.2 (76.5) | 64.6 (55.9) | 62.3 (35.2) |
| Bang 373 | Human | B | 48.6 (29.5) | 52.5 (37.3) | 48.4 (21.8) | 48.4 (17.3) |
| WH-1 | Human | B | 48.8 (29.0) | 52.7 (37.9) | 48.9 (21.8) | 49.3 (16.8) |
| ADRV | Human | B | 49.1 (28.6) | 52.7 (36.9) | 49.1 (21.8) | 49.4 (16.8) |
| RUBV226 | Bovine | B | 47.8 (29.8) | 52.4 (39.2) | NA | NA |
| DB176 | Bovine | B | 47.3 (29.9) | 52.4 (39.4) | 50.7 (21.4) | NA |
| Nemuro | Bovine | B | NA | 52.6 (38.2) | 49.6 (20.2) | NA |
| Po/PB-F18 | Porcine | B | NA | NA | (21.4)† | NA |
*VP, viral protein; NS, nonstructural protein; NA, not available. GenBank accession nos.: SKA-1 VP4, AB576625; SKA-1 VP6, AB576626; SKA-1 VP7 AB576627; SKA-1 NSP4; AB576628.
†Nucleotide sequence of the noncoding region of this strain was not available.
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