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Analysis of 15 novel full-length BK virus sequences from three individuals: evidence of a high intra-strain genetic diversity

¹ Division of Viral Pathogenesis, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, RE 213B, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
² Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
³ Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, RE 213B, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
⁴ Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, RE 213B, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA

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Igor J. Koralnik
ikoralni{at}bidmc.harvard.edu

To determine the variability of BK virus (BKV) in vivo, the sequences of nine full-length molecular clones from the striated muscle and heart DNA of a patient with BKV-associated capillary leak syndrome (BKV_CAP), as well as three clones each from the urine of one human immunodeficiency virus type 2-positive (BKV_HI) and one healthy control subject (BKV_HC), were analysed. The regulatory region of all clones corresponded to the archetypal regulatory region usually found in urine isolates. Analysis of the predicted conformation of BKV_CAP proteins did not suggest any structural differences on the surface of the viral particles compared with BKV_HI and BKV_HC clones. No amino acid changes common to most BKV_CAP clones could be identified that have not already been reported in non-vasculotropic strains. However, the coding region of each clone had unique nucleotide substitutions, and intra-host variability was greater among BKV_CAP clones, with a mean difference of 0·29 % per site compared with 0·16 % for BKV_HI and 0·14 % for BKV_HC. The clones from each strain formed monophyletic clades, suggesting a single source of infection for each subject. The most divergent BKV_CAP clones differed at 0·55 % of sites, implying a rate of nucleotide substitution of approximately 5x10^–5 substitutions per site per year, which is two orders of magnitude faster than estimated for the other human polyomavirus, JC virus.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the nucleotide sequences determined in this work are AY628224–AY628238.

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