Short communicationEvolutionary studies on the betaretrovirus RERV-H in the Leporidae family reveal an endogenization in the ancestor of Oryctolagus, Bunolagus and Pentalagus at 9 million years ago

Add time:08/26/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

RERV-H was first identified in human tissues and mistaken for a human exogenous retrovirus. However, the integration sites carried by this virus showed that it was instead a European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) endogenous retrovirus. The first clones retrieved from European rabbit samples represented defective proviruses, although estimation of proviral copy numbers found in the European rabbit genome ranged from hundreds to thousands. Screening for the presence of RERV-H showed the absence of the virus in two other lagomorphs, pika (Ochotona) and hares (Lepus), which diverged from rabbits about 35 and 12 million years ago, respectively.Using a PCR-based approach, samples of seven different Lagomorph genera were tested for the presence of RERV-H. It was possible to amplify a proviral fragment corresponding to RNaseH from Oryctolagus, Bunolagus and Pentalagus genomic samples. The amplification of proviral DNA in species other than Oryctolagus revealed that this virus was endogenized in their common ancestor, roughly 9 million years ago. Using the European rabbit genome sequence OryCun2.0, it was possible to find multiple copies spread throughout the genome and several complete proviral genomes were retrieved. Some copies contained full open reading frames for all viral components. The lack of a complete genome in the other Lagomorph species did not allow further analyses of the provirus, although more deleterious mutations were found in Bunolagus and Pentalagus than in Oryctolagus RNaseH-amplified sequences. To what extent RERV-H and other endogenous viruses might have had an impact on the rabbit genome and its immune system remains elusive.

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