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Overview

Ebola infection is caused by a virus that belongs to the family Filoviridae. Four viral subtypes have been reported to cause clinical illness in humans: Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus, and Zaire ebolavirus. The human disease has so far been limited to parts of Africa. A very small number of people in the United States and in the Philippines who were infected with the fifth type of the virus, known as Reston ebolavirus, did not develop any signs of disease.

Virology

style="background:#Template:Taxobox colour;"|Ebola virus

style="background:#Template:Taxobox colour;" | Virus classification
Group: Group V ((-)ssRNA)
Order: Mononegavirales
Family: Filovirus
Genus: Ebolavirus
Type species
Zaïre Ebolavirus
Species

Reston Ebolavirus
Sudan Ebolavirus
Ivory Coast Ebolavirus
Bundibugyo Ebolavirus

Taxonomy

Viruses; ssRNA viruses; ssRNA negative-strand viruses; Mononegavirales; Filoviridae; Ebolavirus[1]

  • Ebolavirus
  • Bundibugyo ebolavirus
  • Reston ebolavirus
  • Reston ebolavirus - Reston
  • Reston ebolavirus - Reston (1989)
  • Reston ebolavirus - Siena/Philippine-92
  • Sudan ebolavirus
  • Sudan ebolavirus - Boniface (1976)
  • Sudan ebolavirus - Maleo (1979)
  • Sudan ebolavirus - Nakisamata
  • Sudan ebolavirus - Uganda (2000)
  • Tai Forest ebolavirus
  • Tai Forest virus - Côte d’Ivoire, Côte d’Ivoire, 1994
  • Zaire ebolavirus
  • Ebola virus - Mayinga, Zaire, 1976
  • Zaire ebolavirus - Eckron (Zaire, 1976)
  • Zaire ebolavirus - Gabon (1994-1997)
  • Zaire ebolavirus - Zaire (1995)
  • Unclassified Ebolavirus
  • Ebola virus Yambio0401
  • Ebola virus Yambio0402
  • Ebola virus Yambio0403
  • Ebola virus sp.

Biology

Ebola infection is caused by a virus that belongs to the family Filoviridae. Four viral subtypes have been reported to cause clinical illness in humans: Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus, and Zaire ebolavirus. The human disease has so far been limited to parts of Africa. A very small number of people in the United States and in the Philippines who were infected with the fifth type of the virus, known as Reston ebolavirus, did not develop any signs of disease.

The disease can be passed to humans from infected animals and animal materials. Ebola can also be spread between humans by close contact with infected bodily fluids or through infected needles in the hospital.

Structure

Size and Shape

Electron micrographs of members of Ebola virus show them to have the characteristic thread-like structure of a filovirus.[2] EBOV VP30 is around 288 amino acids long.[2] The virions are tubular and variable in shape and may appear as a "U", "6", coiled, circular, or branched shape, however, laboratory purification techniques, such as centrifugation, may contribute to the various shapes.[2] Virions are generally 80 nm in diameter.[2] They are variable in length, and can be up to 1400 nm long. On average, however, the length of a typical Ebola virus is closer to 1000 nm. In the center of the virion is a structure called nucleocapsid, which is formed by the helically wound viral genomic RNA complexed with the proteins NP, VP35, VP30 and L. It has a diameter of 40 – 50 nm and contains a central channel of 20–30 nm in diameter. Virally encoded glycoprotein (GP) spikes 10 nm long and 10 nm apart are present on the outer viral envelope of the virion, which is derived from the host cell membrane. Between envelope and nucleocapsid, in the so-called matrix space, the viral proteins VP40 and VP24 are located.

Genome

Each virion contains one minor molecule of linear, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA, totaling 18959 to 18961 nucleotides in length. The 3′ terminus is not polyadenylated and the 5′ end is not capped. It was found that 472 nucleotides from the 3' end and 731 nucleotides from the 5' end were sufficient for replication.[2] It codes for seven structural proteins and one non-structural protein. The gene order is 3′ - leader - NP - VP35 - VP40 - GP/sGP - VP30 - VP24 - L - trailer - 5′; with the leader and trailer being non-transcribed regions which carry important signals to control transcription, replication and packaging of the viral genomes into new virions. The genomic material by itself is not infectious, because viral proteins, among them the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, are necessary to transcribe the viral genome into mRNAs, as well as for replication of the viral genome.

References

  1. "Taxonomy browser (Ebolavirus)".
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Klenk, Hans-Dieter (2004). Ebola and Marburg Viruses, Molecular and Cellular Biology. Wymondham, Norfolk: Horizon Bioscience. ISBN 0954523237. Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (help)

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