Genetic Adaptation of Porcine Circovirus Type 1 to Cultured Porcine Kidney Cells Revealed by Single-Molecule Long-Read Sequencing Technology

Dóra Tombácz; Norbert Moldován; Zsolt Balázs; Zsolt Csabai; Michael Snyder; Zsolt Boldogkői

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01539-16

Genetic Adaptation of Porcine Circovirus Type 1 to Cultured Porcine Kidney Cells Revealed by Single-Molecule Long-Read Sequencing Technology

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 2;5(5):e01539-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01539-16.

Authors

Dóra Tombácz¹, Norbert Moldován¹, Zsolt Balázs¹, Zsolt Csabai¹, Michael Snyder², Zsolt Boldogkői³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
² Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary [email protected].

Abstract

Porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) is a nonpathogenic circovirus, and a contaminant of the porcine kidney (PK-15) cell line. We present the complete and annotated genome sequence of strain Szeged of PCV1, determined by Pacific Biosciences RSII long-read sequencing platform.

Grants and funding

P50 HG007735/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States