Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Dispatch
Detection and Characterization of Bat Sarbecovirus Phylogenetically Related to SARS-CoV-2, Japan
Shin Murakami1
, Tomoya Kitamura1, Jin Suzuki, Ryouta Sato, Toshiki Aoi, Marina Fujii, Hiromichi Matsugo, Haruhiko Kamiki, Hiroho Ishida, Akiko Takenaka-Uema, Masayuki Shimojima, and Taisuke Horimoto
, Tomoya Kitamura1, Jin Suzuki, Ryouta Sato, Toshiki Aoi, Marina Fujii, Hiromichi Matsugo, Haruhiko Kamiki, Hiroho Ishida, Akiko Takenaka-Uema, Masayuki Shimojima, and Taisuke Horimoto
Table
Identities of nucleotide and amino acid sequences of genome, genes, and proteins to representative sarbecoviruses used to investigate sarbecovirus Rc-o319 detected in bats, Japan
| Virus |
Entire genome |
ORF1ab |
S |
ORF3a |
E |
M |
ORF6 |
ORF7a |
ORF7b |
ORF8 |
N |
ORF10 |
| Nucleotide % |
||||||||||||
| SARS-CoV-2 | 81.5 | 80.0 | 73.0 | 83.2 | 97.4 | 86.6 | 86.6 | 78.4 | 77.3 | 53.3 | 88.3 | 94.9 |
| RaTG13 | 81.2 | 79.8 | 73.3 | 83.9 | 96.9 | 85.4 | 87.1 | 77.4 | 78.0 | 53.0 | 87.8 | 94.0 |
| pangolin/P4L | 80.4 | 79.8 | 72.5 | 83.5 | 97.8 | 85.5 | 85.5 | 74.5 | – | 53.2 | 86.8 | 91.5 |
| CoVZXC21 | 80.4 | 80.2 | 72.5 | 79.9 | 96.1 | 86.0 | 83.3 | 75.1 | – | 50.8 | 85.9 | 53.9 |
| SARS-CoV-1 | 81.0 | 78.8 | 73.6 | 76.6 | 93.1 | 87.0 | 77.1 | 73.4 | 74.8 | – | 86.1 | 63.3 |
| Rf1 | 80.6 | 78.7 | 70.9 | 75.1 | 92.6 | 85.8 | 78.8 | 72.2 | 75.6 | 68.6 | 84.9 | 63.3 |
| BM48–31 |
79.6 |
77.4 |
69.3 |
70.4 |
90.5 |
80.6 |
61.3 |
65.1 |
57.9 |
– |
77.0 |
64.1 |
| Amino acid, % |
||||||||||||
| SARS-CoV-2 | NA | 88.2 | 76.7 | 87.0 | 98.7 | 91.0 | 83.6 | 73.8 | 69.8 | 27.5 | 89.5 | 87.2 |
| RaTG13 | NA | 88.1 | 77.6 | 86.6 | 98.7 | 91.0 | 83.6 | 73.0 | 72.1 | 28.2 | 89.7 | 84.6 |
| pangolin/P4L | NA | 88.2 | 76.9 | 86.2 | 98.7 | 91.0 | 80.3 | 68.9 | – | 28.8 | 89.2 | 79.5 |
| CoVZXC21 | NA | 87.9 | 75.5 | 83.3 | 98.7 | 91.4 | 77.1 | 68.9 | – | 20.5 | 88.1 | 28.2 |
| SARS-CoV-1 | NA | 85.9 | 75.2 | 72.5 | 93.4 | 97.7 | 66.7 | 69.7 | 68.2 | – | 88.9 | 59.0 |
| Rf1 | NA | 85.5 | 73.6 | 69.6 | 92.1 | 94.1 | 66.7 | 68.0 | 72.7 | 66.7 | 87.4 | 59.0 |
| BM48–31 |
NA |
83.7 |
71.9 |
64.5 |
93.4 |
88.1 |
48.5 |
52.5 |
58.1 |
– |
85.9 |
61.5 |
| *NA, not available; ORF, open reading frame; –, no ORFs found. | ||||||||||||
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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