Table 2 The sequence analysis of HBGA binding sites and predicted conformational epitopes of GII.14 VP1 protein.

From: Increasing Recombinant Strains Emerged in Norovirus Outbreaks in Jiangsu, China: 2015–2018

GII.14 strains

HBGA Binding Sites

Predicted Conformational Epitopes

Site I (aa347)

Site II (aa374)

Site III (aa439)

aa309

aa365

aa457

JN699038 CHN/1978

TRAH

SNDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDVPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSNDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQESAPSQS

AY130761 USA/1999

TRAH

SDDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDMPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSDDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQEAAPSQS

EF547404 JPN/2001

TRAH

SGDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDMPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSGDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQEAAPSQS

EF670650 CHN/2006

TRAH

SNDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDMPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSNDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQEAAPSQS

GQ856465 CHN/2007

TRAH

SNDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDMPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSNDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQEAAPSQS

GU017901 JPN/2008

TRAH

SNDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDMPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSNDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQEAAPSQS

LC133340 JPN/2013

TRAH

SNDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDMPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSNDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQEAAPSQS

JSOB/CZ0907/2017

TRAH

SNDF

AGGH

LDGSPIDPTDDMPAPLGTP

IGQVRFKSSSNDFDLHDPTKFTP

EHFYQEAAPSQS

  1. The HBGA-binding interfaces are composed of three amino acid motifs that are indicated with sites I, II, and III. The predicted conformational epitopes are also composed of three amino acid components with residues, bold and underlined, that indicate changes. Numbers indicate the starting position of amino acid components, which is located on the norovirus HK74 genome (GenBank accession No. JN699038).