Virome and nrEVEome diversity of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes from La Reunion Island and China. 2022

Umberto Palatini, and Niccolò Alfano, and Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazu, and Xiao-Guang Chen, and Helene Delatte, and Mariangela Bonizzoni
Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy.

Aedes albopictus is a public health threat for its worldwide spread and ability to transmit arboviruses. Understanding mechanisms of mosquito immunity can provide new tools to control arbovirus spread. The genomes of Aedes mosquitoes contain hundreds of nonretroviral endogenous viral elements (nrEVEs), which are enriched in piRNA clusters and produce piRNAs, with the potential to target cognate viruses. Recently, one nrEVE was shown to limit cognate viral infection through nrEVE-derived piRNAs. These findings suggest that nrEVEs constitute an archive of past viral infection and that the landscape of viral integrations may be variable across populations depending on their viral exposure. We used bioinformatics and molecular approaches to identify known and novel (i.e. absent in the reference genome) viral integrations in the genome of wild collected Aedes albopictus mosquitoes and characterize their virome. We showed that the landscape of viral integrations is dynamic with seven novel viral integrations being characterized, but does not correlate with the virome, which includes both viral species known and unknown to infect mosquitoes. However, the small RNA coverage profile of nrEVEs and the viral genomic contigs we identified confirmed an interaction among these elements and the piRNA and siRNA pathways in mosquitoes. Mosquitoes nrEVEs have been recently described as a new form of heritable, sequence-specific mechanism of antiviral immunity. Our results contribute to understanding the dynamic distribution of nrEVEs in the genomes of wild Ae. albopictus and their interaction with mosquito viruses.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D000083422 Virome All of the VIRUSES that exist within a particular biological niche such as an organism or specific location of the organism, soil, a body of water, etc. Phageome,Viral Microbiome,Virus Microbiome,Microbiome, Viral,Microbiome, Virus,Microbiomes, Viral,Microbiomes, Virus,Phageomes,Viral Microbiomes,Viromes,Virus Microbiomes
D000330 Aedes A genus of mosquitoes (CULICIDAE) frequently found in tropical and subtropical regions. YELLOW FEVER and DENGUE are two of the diseases that can be transmitted by species of this genus. Aede
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D014780 Viruses Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells. Animal Viruses,Zoophaginae,Animal Virus,Virus,Virus, Animal,Viruses, Animal
D016662 Virus Integration Insertion of viral DNA into host-cell DNA. This includes integration of phage DNA into bacterial DNA; (LYSOGENY); to form a PROPHAGE or integration of retroviral DNA into cellular DNA to form a PROVIRUS. Integration, Provirus,Integration, Virus,Provirus Integration,Viral integration,Integrations, Provirus,Integrations, Virus,Provirus Integrations,Viral integrations,Virus Integrations,integration, Viral,integrations, Viral
D017508 Reunion One of the Indian Ocean Islands, east of Madagascar. Its capital is Saint-Denis. It was discovered in 1507 by the Portuguese and claimed by France in 1638. It was first colonized in 1662 as Isle de Bourbon but renamed Reunion in 1793. In 1946 it was made an overseas department of France. The name commemorates the reunion of the revolutionaries from Marseilles with the National Guard in Paris in 1792. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1011; Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p454; French Embassy)
D034741 RNA, Small Interfering Small double-stranded, non-protein coding RNAs (21-31 nucleotides) involved in GENE SILENCING functions, especially RNA INTERFERENCE (RNAi). Endogenously, siRNAs are generated from dsRNAs (RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED) by the same ribonuclease, Dicer, that generates miRNAs (MICRORNAS). The perfect match of the siRNAs' antisense strand to their target RNAs mediates RNAi by siRNA-guided RNA cleavage. siRNAs fall into different classes including trans-acting siRNA (tasiRNA), repeat-associated RNA (rasiRNA), small-scan RNA (scnRNA), and Piwi protein-interacting RNA (piRNA) and have different specific gene silencing functions. RNA, Scan,Repeat-Associated siRNA,Scan RNA,Small Scan RNA,Trans-Acting siRNA,siRNA,siRNA, Repeat-Associated,siRNA, Trans-Acting,Short Hairpin RNA,Short Interfering RNA,Small Hairpin RNA,Small Interfering RNA,scnRNA,shRNA,tasiRNA,Hairpin RNA, Short,Hairpin RNA, Small,Interfering RNA, Short,Interfering RNA, Small,RNA, Short Hairpin,RNA, Short Interfering,RNA, Small Hairpin,RNA, Small Scan,Repeat Associated siRNA,Scan RNA, Small,Trans Acting siRNA,siRNA, Repeat Associated,siRNA, Trans Acting

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