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. 2010 Nov 9;8(12):867–878. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro2452

Table 2.

Properties of the 2A proteins and peptides of picornaviruses

Virus Size (residues) Isoelectric point§ Identifiable domains/motifs Number of species Interspecies sequence conservation||
Genus Species*
Cosavirus All 5 species 30–37 ND NPG(P) 5 ND
Senecavirus SVV 9 ND NPG(P) 1 NA
Teschovirus PTV 21 ND NPG(P) 1 NA
Erbovirus ERBV 16 ND NPG(P) 1 NA
Aphthovirus FMDV 18 ND NPG(P) 3 ND
ERAV 18 ND
BRV 19 ND
Cardiovirus EMCV 143 9.67 NPG(P) 2 24% (42%)
TMEV 133 8.89
Sapelovirus ASV 12 ND None 3 ND for all 3 species; 27% (39%) for SSV and PSV
SSV 292–302 5.00 Protease
PSV 226 5,55 Protease
Kobuvirus AiV 111 5.92 H-NC 3 54% (66%)
BKV 134 5.51
PKV 136 5.38
Parechovirus LV 2A1 20 ND NPG(P) 2 44% (64%) for 2A2 of LV and 2A of HPeV
LV 2A2 135 6.60 H-NC
HPeV 160 5.28 H-NC
Avihepatovirus DHV 2A1 20 ND NPG(P) 1 NA
DHV 2A2+2A3 285 8.65 AIG1 and H-NC
Hepatovirus HAV 189 8.78 None 1 NA
Tremovirus AEV 163 8.22 H-NC 1 NA
Enterovirus All 10 species 142–150 5.22–6.30 Pico_P2A 10 35% (51%)
Klassevirus HKV 126 4.80 None 1 NA
Unclassified SePV-1 2A1 29 ND NPG(P)# 1 NA
SePV-1 2A2 100 7.92 None 1 NA
AEV, avian encephalomyelitis virus; AiV, Aichi virus; ASV, avian sapelovirus; BKV, bovine kobuvirus; BRV, bovine rhinitis B virus; DHV, duck hepatitis A virus; EMCV, encephalomyocarditis virus; ERAV, equine rhinitis A virus; ERBV, equine rhinitis B virus; FMDV, foot-and-mouth disease virus; HAV, hepatitis A virus; HKV, human klassevirus; HPeV, human parechovirus; LV, Ljungan virus; NA, not applicable; ND, not determined; PKV, porcine kobuvirus; PSV, porcine sapelovirus; PTV, porcine teschovirus; SePV-1, seal picornavirus type 1; SSV, simian sapelovirus; SVV, Seneca Valley virus; TMEV, Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus.
*For those viruses with more than one 2A protein, the specific protein analysed is indicated.
According to the data in GenBank.
§Values were calculated only for peptides with >40 residues using ProtParam132.
||For the viral genera with more than one species, the level of interspecies amino acid identity (and similarity, in parentheses) was calculated with the aid of CLUSTAL_X2 alignments, using utilities implemented in BioEdit and the BLOSUM62 similarity matrix134. To focus on the core protein sequences, the internal insertions of >15 amino acid residues, as well as terminal insertions, were not taken into account.
These are manually recognizable motifs.
#One of the strains is reported to harbour an NPR(P) motif instead of NPG(P).