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Journal of Virology, April 2000, p. 3543-3547, Vol. 74, No. 8
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Memory in Viral Quasispecies

Carmen M. Ruiz-Jarabo, Armando Arias, Eric Baranowski, Cristina Escarmís, and Esteban Domingo*

Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa," Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Received 23 December 1999/Accepted 28 January 2000

Biological adaptive systems share some common features: variation among their constituent elements and continuity of core information. Some of them, such as the immune system, are endowed with memory of past events. In this study we provide direct evidence that evolving viral quasispecies possess a molecular memory in the form of minority components that populate their mutant spectra. The experiments have involved foot-and-mouth disease virus populations with known evolutionary histories. The composition and behavior of the viral population in response to a selective constraint were influenced by past evolutionary history in a way that could not be predicted from examination of consensus nucleotide sequences of the viral populations. The molecular memory of the viral quasispecies influenced both the nature and the intensity of the response of the virus to a selective constraint.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa," Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34-91-397 8485. Fax: 34-91-397 4799. E-mail: edomingo{at}cbm.uam.es.

Journal of Virology, April 2000, p. 3543-3547, Vol. 74, No. 8
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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