

@article {956,
	title = {Discovery of STL polyomavirus, a polyomavirus of ancestral recombinant origin that encodes a unique T antigen by alternative splicing},
	journal = {Virology},
	volume = {436},
	number = {2},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {295{\textendash}303},
	abstract = {<p>The family Polyomaviridae is comprised of circular double-stranded DNA viruses, several of which are associated with diseases, including cancer, in immunocompromised patients. Here we describe a novel polyomavirus recovered from the fecal microbiota of a child in Malawi, provisionally named STL polyomavirus (STLPyV). We detected STLPyV in clinical stool specimens from USA and The Gambia at up to 1\% frequency. Complete genome comparisons of two STLPyV strains demonstrated 5.2\% nucleotide divergence. Alternative splicing of the STLPyV early region yielded a unique form of T antigen, which we named 229T, in addition to the expected large and small T antigens. STLPyV has a mosaic genome and shares an ancestral recombinant origin with MWPyV. The discovery of STLPyV highlights a novel alternative splicing strategy and advances our understanding of the complex evolutionary history of polyomaviruses. {\textcopyright} 2012 Elsevier Inc.</p>
},
	keywords = {Alternative splicing, Polyomavirus, Recombination, Tumor antigen, Virus discovery},
	isbn = {1096-0341 (Electronic)$\backslash$n0042-6822 (Linking)},
	issn = {00426822},
	doi = {10.1016/j.virol.2012.12.005},
	author = {Lim, Efrem S. and Reyes, Alejandro and Antonio, Martin and Saha, Debasish and Ikumapayi, Usman N. and Adeyemi, Mitchell and Stine, O. Colin and Skelton, Rebecca and Brennan, Daniel C. and Mkakosya, Rajhab S. and Manary, Mark J. and Gordon, Jeffrey I. and Wang, David}
}
