The goal of the study was determining the effect of natural selection on the bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) through the identification of polymorphisms by comparing a number of genes, open reading frames and proteins and analyzing the effect of nonsynonymous substitutions in the Vif protein of BIV isolates on the Vif conformational parameters. The selection pressure on the genes was estimated by Tajima test, as well as the determination of the ratio of nonsynonymous substitutions (Ka) to synonymous (Ks) Ka/Ks. Ka and Ks coefficients, their ratio (Ka/Ks) were calculated on the basis of alignments of amino acid and nucleotide sequences of the vif gene of BIV isolates. The nonsynonymous (dN) to synonymous (dS) substitution rate ratio per nucleotide site dN/dS was calculated to estimate the effect of selection on the vif gene by SLAC method on Datamonkey server. The number of hydrogen bonds, α-helices, β-sheets, β-turns for the protein tertiary structures of proteins was determined by I-TASSER server. Genes, open reading frames (ORFs) and the U3 regulatory region of BIV genome which are under the influence of selection have been identified. Gag, pol, s, vif genes, ORF W and ORF Y are under the negative (purifying) selection pressure. Env gene and the U3 regulatory region are under positive selection. Shannon entropy analysis (peaks that are specific to the positions of amino acid residues), interpreted as polymorphisms, revealed 16, 8, and 4 nonsynonymous substitutions for Pol, Gag, and Vif BIV proteins, respectively. Significant changes in the number of hydrogen bonds, α-helices, β-layers, β-turns were determined by the analysis of the effect of four nonsynonymous substitutions in the Vif protein on the conformational parameters of Vif of two BIV isolates. The multidirectional effect of selection on BIV genes is shown
Keywords: positive selection, molecular evolution, amino acid substitution, SNP
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