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Table 4 Possible relationship between PCV3 groups and key amino acid residues of the ORF2 (capsid) protein

From: Prevalence of porcine circovirus type 3 in pigs in the southeastern Chinese province of Zhejiang

Virus

Group

No. of Sequences

Amino acid residues 24, 27, 77 and 150

ARSI

ARSL

AKSI

AKSF

VRSI

VKSI

VKNI

LKSI

ARTI

ARTL

PCV3a

77

    

2

73

1

1

  

PCV3b

44

18

       

1

25

PCV3c

79

62

2

5

2

1

7

    

Total

200

80

2

5

2

3

80

1

1

1

25

  1. The putative ‘signature’ residues of the ORF2 protein (aa 24, 27, 77 and 150) relative to the PCV3 groups (PCV3a, PCV3b and PCV3c) were analyzed based on 200 strains, 38 obtained in this study and 162 downloaded from NCBI GenBank