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Journal of Virology, January 2002, p. 259-268, Vol. 76, No. 1
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.1.259-268.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Complete Sequence of a Novel Highly Divergent Simian T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus from Wild-Caught Red-Capped Mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus) from Cameroon: a New Primate T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 3 Subtype

Laurent Meertens,1 Renaud Mahieux,1 Philippe Mauclère,1,2 John Lewis,3 and Antoine Gessain1*

Unité d’Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Département du SIDA et des Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France,1 Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon,2 International Zoo Veterinary Group, Keigthley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom3

Received 11 July 2001/ Accepted 25 September 2001

Among 65 samples obtained from a primate rescue center located in Cameroon, two female adult red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus) (CTO-602 and CTO-604), of wild-caught origin, had a peculiar human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 2 (HTLV-2)-like Western blot seroreactivity (p24, RGD21, +/-K55). Analyses of the simian T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (STLV-3)/CTO-604 complete proviral sequence (8,919 bp) indicated that this novel strain was highly divergent from HTLV-1 (60% nucleotide similarity), HTLV-2 (62%), or STLV-2 (62%) prototypes. It was, however, related to STLV-3/PH-969 (87%), a divergent STLV strain previously isolated from an Eritrean baboon. The STLV-3/CTO-604 sequence possesses the major open reading frames corresponding to the structural, enzymatic, and regulatory proteins. However, its long terminal repeat is shorter, with only two 21-bp repeats. Furthermore, as demonstrated by reverse transcriptase PCR, this new STLV exhibits significant differences from STLV-3/PH-969 at the mRNA splice junction position level. In all phylogenetic analyses, STLV-3/CTO-604 and STLV-3/PH-969 clustered in a highly supported single clade, indicating an evolutionary lineage independent from primate T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (PTLV-1) and PTLV-2. Nevertheless, the nucleotide divergence between STLV-3/PH-969 and STLV-3/CTO-604 is equivalent to or higher than the divergence observed between the different HTLV-1 or HTLV-2 subtypes. Thus, the STLV-3/CTO-604 strain can be considered the prototype of a second subtype in the PTLV-3 type. The presence of two related viruses in evolutionarily distantly related African monkeys species, living in two opposite ecosystems (rain forest versus desert), reinforces the possible African origin of PTLV and opens new avenues regarding the search for a possible human counterpart of these viruses in individuals exhibiting such HTLV-2-like seroreactivities.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité d’Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Département du SIDA et des Rétrovirus, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. Phone: 33 (0)1 45 68 89 37. Fax: 33 (0)1 40 61 34 65. E-mail: agessain{at}pasteur.fr.

Journal of Virology, January 2002, p. 259-268, Vol. 76, No. 1
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.1.259-268.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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