Rustrela virus

{{short description|Species of virus}}

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| name = Rustrela virus

| parent = Rubivirus

| species = Rubivirus strelense

| synonyms = * Rustrela virus

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Create two new species and rename one species in genus Rubivirus (Hepelivirales: Matonaviridae) |url=https://ictv.global/ictv/proposals/2020.011S.R.Rubivirus_nspp.zip |vauthors=Bennett AJ, Paskey AC, Ebinger A, Kuhn JH, Bishop-Lilly KA, Beer M, Goldberg TL |publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) |language=en |format=docx |date=31 July 2020 |access-date=15 May 2021 }}

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Rustrela virus, scientific name Rubivirus strelense, is a species of virus in the genus Rubivirus.

== History ==

Scientists discovered Rustrela in acutely encephalitic placental and marsupial mammals – a donkey, a capybara, and a wallaby – in a zoo in Germany, and in wild yellow-necked field mice (Apodemus flavicollis) in and around the zoo.{{cite journal |last1=Bennett |first1=Andrew |last2=Paskey |first2=Adrian |title=Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals |journal=Nature |year=2020 |volume=586 |issue=7829 |pages=424–428 |doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2812-9 |pmc=7572621 |pmid=33029010|bibcode=2020Natur.586..424B }} – See also article correction: {{cite journal |last1=Bennett |first1=Andrew J. |last2=Paskey |first2=Adrian C. |last3=Ebinger |first3=Arnt |last4=Pfaff |first4=Florian |last5=Priemer |first5=Grit |last6=Höper |first6=Dirk |last7=Breithaupt |first7=Angele |last8=Heuser |first8=Elisa |last9=Ulrich |first9=Rainer G. |last10=Kuhn |first10=Jens H. |last11=Bishop-Lilly |first11=Kimberly A. |last12=Beer |first12=Martin |last13=Goldberg |first13=Tony L. |title=Author Correction: Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals |journal=Nature |date=3 December 2020 |volume=588 |issue=7836 |pages=E2 |doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2897-1|pmid=33199919 |bibcode=2020Natur.588E...2B |s2cid=226991151 |doi-access=free }} The virus can jump between species and interestingly infects both placental and marsupial animals.

==Structure==

The Rustrela virus has the same genomic structure as the Rubella virus. Rustrela has a few amino acid differences in the protein which binds to host cells.{{cite web |last1=Tyrrell |first1=Kelly |title=First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany |url=https://news.wisc.edu/first-relatives-of-rubella-virus-discovered-in-bats-in-uganda-and-mice-in-germany/ |website=University of Wisconsin-Madison |accessdate=16 November 2020}} There are four putative B cell epitopes in the fusion (E1) protein of rustrela that are highly conserved with Rubella virus and Ruhugu virus.