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Decoded: How dangerous Covid variants emerge

ENEWSTIME Desk by ENEWSTIME Desk
April 29, 2023
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A team of Russian researchers has uncovered the mechanisms behind the emergence of new and dangerous coronavirus variants, such as Alpha, Delta, Omicron, and others.

The team, led by those from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), discovered that the likelihood of a substitution occurring at a specific site of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is dependent on concordant substitutions occurring at other sites.

This explains why new and more contagious variants of the virus can emerge unexpectedly and differ significantly from those that were previously circulating, they wrote in the paper published in the journal eLife.

All viruses, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the coronavirus pandemic, change over time. The longer a virus circulates within the population and the more individuals it infects, the more changes (mutations) it accumulates. Typically, new strains of a virus are similar to their parental strains.

However, in some cases, mutations may result in variants that are better adapted to the environment and pose a higher risk to human health. These variants tend to spread more quickly, may not respond to existing vaccines or treatments, and could be more difficult to diagnose.

“The evolution of a virus within a population can be likened to a journey across a vast terrain with ravines, valleys, and hills. The virus roams randomly through this landscape, dying quickly if it falls into a cavity, surviving longer in valleys, and thriving when on peaks,” said Alexey Neverov, from the HSE International Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Genomics.

For the study, the team analysed over three million genome sequences of different strains of SARS-CoV-2. They identified particular sites on the surface protein of the coronavirus where amino acid substitutions occurred, differentiating the variants from both the original Wuhan strain and from one another.

Many of these sites appeared to be concordantly evolving, so that changes in amino acids at one site were rapidly followed by changes at another site. All the active and dangerous variants of the virus were distinguished from the previously prevalent variants by patterns of multiple substitutions.

“Individuals with long-term Covid-19 may potentially harbour an accumulation of variants which are poorly adapted for survival in the general population. However, over time, these variants can evolve into stronger forms that have the potential to spread widely and conquer the world,” Neverov explained.

The team suggest an explanation as to why intermediate variants that differ from the original virus by only one or two substitutions may not be visible. It’s possible that these ‘weak’ variants only become ‘strong’ when they gather the whole pattern of individually deleterious substitutions. As a result, predicting the emergence of a new highly adaptive strain is hard, the researchers said.

The statistical method employed by the study’s authors is versatile and can be utilised to investigate the evolution of numerous other pathogens. In particular, this approach has been successfully applied to studying the evolution of influenza and tuberculosis.

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