Volume 20, Number 4—April 2014
Dispatch
Complete Genome of Hepatitis E Virus from Laboratory Ferrets
Tian-Cheng Li
, Tingting Yang, Yasushi Ami, Yuriko Suzaki, Masayuki Shirakura, Noriko Kishida, Hideki Asanuma, Naokazu Takeda, and Wakita Takaji
, Tingting Yang, Yasushi Ami, Yuriko Suzaki, Masayuki Shirakura, Noriko Kishida, Hideki Asanuma, Naokazu Takeda, and Wakita Takaji
Table 2
Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence identities between ferret HEV from the United States and other HEVs*
| HEV strain (GenBank accession no.) | Full-length genome, % | Ferret HEV (AB890374) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nucleotides, % |
Amino acids, % |
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| ORF1 | ORF2 | ORF3 | ORF1 | ORF2 | ORF3 | ||
| Genotype 1 (NC-001434) | 53.6 | 51.4 | 58.9 | 50.3 | 51.4 | 56.9 | 22.2 |
| Genotype 2 (M74506) | 53.8 | 51.7 | 59.3 | 49.4 | 56.0 | 57.2 | 25.2 |
| Genotype 3 (AF060668) | 55.2 | 53.6 | 59.4 | 47.9 | 54.5 | 58.1 | 22.9 |
| Genotype 4 (AJ272108) | 53.9 | 51.5 | 59.5 | 49.4 | 53.5 | 57.5 | 28.8 |
| Wild boar HEV (AB573435) | 54.4 | 51.9 | 60.5 | 49.1 | 57.2 | 57.3 | 24.3 |
| Wild boar HEV (AB602441) | 54.0 | 51.9 | 59.1 | 50.9 | 57.4 | 57.0 | 31.5 |
| Rabbit HEV (FJ906895) | 54.8 | 57.0 | 60.5 | 51.2 | 55.2 | 57.7 | 23.3 |
| Rat HEV (GU345042) | 61.2 | 57.0 | 71.3 | 63.3 | 70.1 | 79.4 | 40.4 |
| Rat HEV (JX120573) | 62.6 | 58.1 | 72.8 | 64.9 | 74.1 | 80.0 | 43.5 |
| Ferret HEV (998606) | 82.4 | 81.4 | 84.9 | 85.9 | 91.5 | 94.2 | 73.1 |
| Ferret HEV (998607) | 82.4 | 81.3 | 85.1 | 85.9 | 91.3 | 94.8 | 73.1 |
| Ferret HEV (AB890001) | 99.6 | 99.7 | 99.5 | 100.0 | 99.7 | 99.8 | 100.0 |
| Avian HEV (AY535004) | 50.8 | 50.5 | 54.2 | 47.0 | 43.1 | 47.9 | 24.2 |
| Bat HEV (JQ001749) |
46.8 |
49.7 |
54.7 |
48.8 |
44.6 |
54.3 |
42.9 |
| *HEV, hepatitis E virus; ORF, open reading frame. | |||||||
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