Volume 25, Number 5—May 2019
Dispatch
Genetic Characterization of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, South Korea, 2018
Yoon-Seok Chung, Jeong Min Kim, Heui Man Kim, Kye Ryeong Park, Anna Lee, Nam-Joo Lee, Mi-Seon Kim, Jun Sub Kim, Chi-Kyeong Kim, Jae In Lee, and Chun Kang
Table
Comparison of spike glycoprotein gene sequence variants for a MERS-CoV isolates from a patient in South Korea, 2018, and reference strains*
| MERS-CoV strain |
Nucleotide (amino acid) positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTD |
RBD |
Other regions |
|||||||||
| 183 (61) |
258 (86) |
409 (137) |
1586 (529) |
1588 (530) |
1848 (616) |
1886 (629) |
3177 (1059) |
3267 (1089) |
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| JX869059_HCoV-EMC_2012† | C (G) | T (V) | A (S) | T (I) | G (V) | T (V) | G (R) | T (D) | C (S) | ||
| KR011266_KSA_Hu/Riyadh-KSA-2049/2015 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KR011263_KSA_Hu/Riyadh-KSA-2345/2015 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KR011264_KSA_Hu/Riyadh-KSA-2343/2015 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KR011265_KSA_Hu/Riyadh-KSA-2466/2015 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KT026453_KSA_Hu/Riyadh-KSA-2959/2015 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KT026454_KSA_Hu/Riyadh_KSA_4050/2015 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KX154690_Hu_Jeddah-KSA-161RS1146_2016 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KX154684_Hu-Riyadh-KSA-11739_2016 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| KX154694_Hu-Artawiyah-KSA-13328_2016 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| MG011361_Hu-Riyadh-KSA-K17000405_2017 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| MG011360_Hu-Riyadh-KSA-K17000887_2017 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| MG912608_Hu-Riyadh-KSA-9730_2017 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KNIH/001_05_2015 | C (V) | C (T) | C (D) | T (S) | |||||||
| KT029139-MERS-CoV/KOR/KNIH/002_05_2015 | C (V) | C (R) | C (L) | C (D) | T (S) | ||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KNIH/009_05_2015 | C (V) | C (V) | C (D) | T (S) | |||||||
| KT006149-ChinaGD01_2015 | G (G) | C (V) | C (V) | C (D) | T (S) | ||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KNIH/012_05_2015 | C (V) | C (T) | C (V) | C (D) | T (S) | ||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KNIH/013_05_2015 | C (V) | C (T) | C (V) | C (D) | T (S) | ||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KNIH/015_05_2015 | C (V) | C (T) | C (V) | A (H) | C (D) | T (S) | |||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KNIH/042_04_2015 | C (V) | C (D) | T (S) | ||||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KCDC/001_2018_2SP-1 | C (V) | ||||||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KCDC/001_2018_4TS | C (V) | ||||||||||
| MERS-CoV/KOR/KCDC/001_2018_4TSVi | C (V) | ||||||||||
*Only variations from the reference strain are shown. Boldface indicates the South Korea isolates and the most similar strain identified in this study. MERS-CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; NTD, N-terminal domain; RBD, receptor-binding domain.
†Reference MERS-CoV strain.
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