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. 2022 Jun 9;11(7):e00411-22. doi: 10.1128/mra.00411-22

Ten Nearly Complete Genome Sequences of Human Orthorubulavirus 4 Isolated from Pediatric Inpatients in Fukushima, Japan

Satoko Sugimoto a,b, Yohei Kume c, Reiko Suwa a, Miyuki Kawase a, Masatoshi Kakizaki a, Kazutaka Egawa a, Takashi Ono c, Mina Chishiki c, Hisao Okabe c, Sakurako Norito c, Masatoki Sato c, Hiroko Sakuma d, Shigeo Suzuki e, Mitsuaki Hosoya c, Makoto Takeda a, Koichi Hashimoto c, Kazuya Shirato a,
Editor: John J Dennehyf
PMCID: PMC9302191  PMID: 35678587

ABSTRACT

We report 10 nearly complete genomic sequences of human orthorubulavirus 4, also called human parainfluenza virus 4 (HPIV4), isolated from pediatric inpatients with respiratory infections in Fukushima, Japan, by using an air-liquid interface culture of human bronchial and tracheal epithelial cells.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV) are members of the family Paramyxoviridae with genomes consisting of approximately 15 to 17 kb of single-stranded negative-sense RNA (1, 2). There are four HPIVs: HPIV1 and HPIV3 belong to the genus Respirovirus, whereas HPIV2 and HPIV4 belong to the genus Orthorubulavirus. HPIV4 is subdivided into two groups (HPIV4a and HPIV4b) based on antigenicity (3). HPIV4 was first identified in 1959 (4); despite more than 60 years passing since its identification, understanding of HPIV4 still remains limited owing to the difficulty of isolating this virus (5), and only a few HPIV4 genomic sequences are registered in GenBank. The air-liquid interface culture of human bronchial and tracheal epithelial cells (HBTEC-ALI) is an excellent tool for culturing various respiratory viruses, particularly those that are hard to isolate, such as human coronaviruses (6, 7), human bocavirus (8), and rhinovirus (9). Here, 10 nearly complete genome sequences of HPIV isolates were determined (Table 1). Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from pediatric inpatients in Fukushima, Japan from 2018 to 2022, and those that were identified as HPIV4-positive by real-time PCR for respiratory viruses (10, 11) were used for virus isolation. HBTEC-ALI-cultured cells were prepared as described previously (6, 12). At 7 days after inoculation onto HBTEC-ALI culture with specimens, cells were washed with culture medium, and the presence of virus in cell wash was confirmed by real-time reverse transcription-PCR. Cell wash that was HPIV4-positive was stored as virus stock. Finally, 10 isolates were obtained from three mono-infections and seven coinfections with another respiratory virus (Table 1). Nucleic acids were extracted from virus stock by using the ISOGEN-LS reagent (Nippongene, Tokyo, Japan) following the manufacturer’s protocol. The libraries for next-generation sequencing were prepared using a NEBNext Ultra II RNA library prep kit for Illumina (New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA, USA) following the manufacturer’s instructions. The indexed libraries were analyzed for 2 × 150 cycles on a DNBSEQ-G400 instrument at GENEWIZ (South Plainfield, NJ, USA) or on a Miseq with reagent kit v3 (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) at our institute. Reads were trimmed and then de novo assembled using CLC Genomics Workbench v21.0.4 on the default settings. The average coverage was checked by mapping reads to assembled sequence, and assembled sequences were trimmed by comparison with the reference sequences (e.g., GenBank accession numbers MN306056 for HPIV4a and KY986647 for HPIV4b).

TABLE 1.

List of registered HPIV4 sequences

HPIV sequence name Accession no. Run data accession no. Total reads Total mapped reads Avg coverage Length (bases) GC content (%) Coinfectiona
PIV4a_Fukushima_O113_2018 LC706548 DRR360803 245,016,168 1,732,756 14304.77 17,094 36.22 Mono
PIV4a_Fukushima_H407_2018 LC706552 DRR360804 570,524,308 4,008,643 33,298.44 17,094 36.22 RSV B
PIV4a_Fukushima_H725_2019 LC706553 DRR360805 320,784,375 2,284,465 18,731.99 17,094 36.19 ADV2
PIV4a_Fukushima_O521_2019 LC706549 DRR360806 440,731,019 3,150,837 25,721.55 17,100 36.29 Mono
PIV4a_Fukushima_O660_2019 LC706550 DRR360807 14,376,859 100,222 840.4 17,094 36.19 PIV3
PIV4a_Fukushima_O755_2019 LC706551 DRR360808 82,215,982 567,578 4,802.16 17,094 36.19 RSV B
PIV4b_Fukushima_O896_2019 LC706554 DRR360809 3,731,778 25,831 214.5 17,384 36.39 ADV2
PIV4b_Fukushima_OR473_2022 LC706555 DRR360810 2,973,974 39,183 170.24 17,359 36.31 HPIV2
PIV4b_Fukushima_OR476_2022 LC706556 DRR360811 46,013,446 606,106 2649.26 17,308 36.27 Mono
PIV4b_Fukushima_OR487_2022 LC706557 DRR360812 1,688,111 22,232 97.04 17,361 36.28 ADV2
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Coinfection was determined by multiplex real-time PCR assays for respiratory viruses (10, 11). RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; ADV, adenovirus.

Using these methods, nearly complete genome sequences of six HPIV4a and four HPIV4b isolates were determined (Table 1). With these 10 sequences, the total number of registered HPIV4 genome sequences has increased greatly, although it is still less than 40. HPIV4 can be isolated from pediatric inpatients with respiratory infections, indicating its importance in pediatric infections. We expect that more viruses will be isolated using HBTEC-ALI culture, and their genomic sequences will be decoded to evaluate the genetic evolution of HPIV4.

Data availability.

The nearly complete genome sequences have been deposited in GenBank under the following accession numbers (Table 1): LC706548, LC706549, LC706550, LC706551, LC706552, LC706553, LC706554, LC706555, LC706556, and LC706557. The raw reads were deposited under BioProject number PRJDB13434. Each run data sequence has been deposited in the DNA Data Bank of Japan under the following accession numbers: DRR360803, DRR360804, DRR360805, DRR360806, DRR360807, DRR360808, DRR360809, DRR360810, DRR360811, and DRR360812.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (21fk0108119j0602 and 22fk0108119j0603). Human subjects were enrolled after approval from the ethics committee of our institute (approval numbers 1001, 1087).

Contributor Information

Kazuya Shirato, Email: shirato@niid.go.jp.

John J. Dennehy, Queens College CUNY

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Data Availability Statement

The nearly complete genome sequences have been deposited in GenBank under the following accession numbers (Table 1): LC706548, LC706549, LC706550, LC706551, LC706552, LC706553, LC706554, LC706555, LC706556, and LC706557. The raw reads were deposited under BioProject number PRJDB13434. Each run data sequence has been deposited in the DNA Data Bank of Japan under the following accession numbers: DRR360803, DRR360804, DRR360805, DRR360806, DRR360807, DRR360808, DRR360809, DRR360810, DRR360811, and DRR360812.


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