Widespread Distribution and Evolution of Poxviral Entry-Fusion Complex Proteins in Giant Viruses. [PDF]
Microbiol Spectr, 2023 Fusion between virus and host membranes is critical for viruses to release genetic materials and to initiate infection. Whereas most viruses use a single protein for membrane fusion, poxviruses employ a multiprotein entry-fusion complex (EFC).
Kao S, Kao CF, Chang W, Ku C.
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Evolution of exploitation and replication of giant viruses and virophages. [PDF]
Virus EvolTripartite biotic interactions are inherently complex, and the strong interdependence of species and often one-sided exploitation can make these systems vulnerable to extinction. The persistence of species depends then on the balance between exploitation
Del Arco A, Fischer MG, Becks L.
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A Brief History of Giant Viruses’ Studies in Brazilian Biomes
Viruses, 2022 Almost two decades after the isolation of the first amoebal giant viruses, indubitably the discovery of these entities has deeply affected the current scientific knowledge on the virosphere. Much has been uncovered since then: viruses can now acknowledge
Paulo Victor M. Boratto +16 more
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Adaptation strategies of giant viruses to low-temperature marine ecosystems. [PDF]
ISME JMicrobes in marine ecosystems have evolved their gene content to thrive successfully in the cold. Although this process has been reasonably well studied in bacteria and selected eukaryotes, less is known about the impact of cold environments on the ...
Buscaglia M +3 more
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Giant Viruses Encode Actin-Related Proteins [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022 The emergence of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton is a critical yet puzzling step of eukaryogenesis. Actin and actin-related proteins (ARPs) are ubiquitous components of this cytoskeleton.
Violette Da Cunha +5 more
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Multiple evolutionary origins of giant viruses [version 1; referees: 4 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2018 The nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) are a monophyletic group of diverse eukaryotic viruses that reproduce primarily in the cytoplasm of the infected cells and include the largest viruses currently known: the giant mimiviruses, pandoraviruses,
Eugene V. Koonin, Natalya Yutin
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Molecular architecture of giant viruses infecting microbial eukaryotes (protists) [PDF]
BioTechnologiaIn this review, I describe recent findings on the molecular architecture and genomic characterization of giant viruses that infect microbial eukaryotes (protists) across diverse ecosystems and ecological niches.
Anhelina Kyrychenko
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Genomics and evolutionary analysis of <i>Chlorella variabilis-</i>infecting viruses demarcate criteria for defining species of giant viruses. [PDF]
J VirolChloroviruses exhibit a close relationship with their hosts with the phenotypic aspect of their ability to form lytic plaques having primarily guided the taxonomy.
Carvalho JVRP +11 more
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Giant Viruses of the Kutch Desert [PDF]
Archives of Virology, 2014 The Kutch desert (Great Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India) is a unique ecosystem: in the larger part of the year it is a hot, salty desert that is flooded regularly in the Indian monsoon season.
Grolmusz, Vince, Kerepesi, Csaba
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Mimiviruses: Giant viruses with novel and intriguing features (Review). [PDF]
Mol Med Rep, 2022 The Mimivirus is a giant virus that infects amoebae and was long considered to be a bacterium due to its size. The viral particles are composed of a protein capsid of ~500 nm in diameter, which is enclosed in a polysaccharide layer in which ~120–140 nm ...
Kalafati E +4 more
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