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Abstract
Background: Variations in the fusion (F) protein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) with main antigenic sites I-V and Ø may affect the development of RSV vaccines and therapies.
Methods: In the study, 30 respiratory specimens positive for RSV were randomly selected from children with acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in Beijing every year from 2012 to 2021 for F gene sequencing. Then, 300 F gene sequences and 508 uploaded to GenBank from China were subjected to phylogenetic analysis.
Results: The results indicated the nucleotide identities were 95.4-100% among 446 sequences of RSV A, and 96.3-100% among 362 of RSV B. The most common variant loci were N80K (100.00%) and R213S (97.76%) for site Ø, and V384I/T (98.43%) for site I among sequences of RSV A, and M152I (100.00%), I185V (100.00%), and L172Q/H (94.48%) for site V, and R202Q (99.45%) for site Ø among sequences of RSV B. N276S appears in 95.29% sequences of RSV A, while S276N and N262 I/S appear in 1.38% and 0.55% sequences of RSV B, respectively. No variation was found in all sequences at the binding sites of 14N4 and motavizumab.
Conclusions: There were cumulative variations of the RSV F gene, especially at some binding sites of antigenic sites.