TY - JOUR
T1 - A genetic barcode of SARS-CoV-2 for monitoring global distribution of different clades during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AU - Guan, Qingtian
AU - Sadykov, Mukhtar
AU - Mfarrej, Sara
AU - Hala, Sharif
AU - Naeem, Raeece
AU - Nugmanova, Raushan
AU - Al-Omari, Awad
AU - Salih, Samer
AU - Mutair, Abbas Al
AU - Carr, Michael J
AU - Hall, William W
AU - Arold, Stefan T.
AU - Pain, Arnab
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We are deeply grateful to all laboratories contributing genomic data and metadata to GISAID and nextstrain.org databases. We thank KAUST Rapid Research Response Team (R3T) for supporting our research. We thank Olga Douvropoulou for her support during the work. We also thank Richard Culleton (Nagasaki University, Japan) and Gabo Gonzalez (UCD, Ireland) for their critical comments on the manuscript draft.
PY - 2020/8/26
Y1 - 2020/8/26
N2 - The SARS-CoV-2 pathogen has established endemicity in humans. This necessitates the development of rapid genetic surveillance methodologies to serve as an adjunct with existing comprehensive, albeit though slower, genome sequencing-driven approaches. A total of 21,789 complete genomes were downloaded from GISAID on May 28, 2020 for analyses. We have defined the major clades and subclades of circulating SARS-CoV-2 genomes. A rapid sequencing-based genotyping protocol was developed and tested on SARS-CoV-2-positive RNA samples by next-generation sequencing. We describe 11 major mutations which defined five major clades (G614, S84, V251, I378 and D392) of globally circulating viral populations. The clades can specifically identify using an 11-nucleotide genetic barcode. An analysis of amino acid variation in SARS-CoV-2 proteins provided evidence of substitution events in the viral proteins involved in both host entry and genome replication. Globally circulating SARS-CoV-2 genomes could be classified into 5 major clades based on mutational profiles defined by an 11-nucleotide barcode. We have successfully developed a multiplexed sequencing-based, rapid genotyping protocol for high-throughput classification of major clade types of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples. This barcoding strategy will be required to monitor decreases in genetic diversity as treatment and vaccine approaches become widely available.
AB - The SARS-CoV-2 pathogen has established endemicity in humans. This necessitates the development of rapid genetic surveillance methodologies to serve as an adjunct with existing comprehensive, albeit though slower, genome sequencing-driven approaches. A total of 21,789 complete genomes were downloaded from GISAID on May 28, 2020 for analyses. We have defined the major clades and subclades of circulating SARS-CoV-2 genomes. A rapid sequencing-based genotyping protocol was developed and tested on SARS-CoV-2-positive RNA samples by next-generation sequencing. We describe 11 major mutations which defined five major clades (G614, S84, V251, I378 and D392) of globally circulating viral populations. The clades can specifically identify using an 11-nucleotide genetic barcode. An analysis of amino acid variation in SARS-CoV-2 proteins provided evidence of substitution events in the viral proteins involved in both host entry and genome replication. Globally circulating SARS-CoV-2 genomes could be classified into 5 major clades based on mutational profiles defined by an 11-nucleotide barcode. We have successfully developed a multiplexed sequencing-based, rapid genotyping protocol for high-throughput classification of major clade types of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples. This barcoding strategy will be required to monitor decreases in genetic diversity as treatment and vaccine approaches become widely available.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/664853
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1201971220306810
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.08.052
DO - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.08.052
M3 - Article
C2 - 32841689
SN - 1201-9712
JO - International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
JF - International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
ER -