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Amoebae as Genitors and Reservoirs of Giant Viruses [PDF]

Intervirology, 2010
Amoebae are unicellular phagocytes that feed on microorganisms in their environment. Some amoebae have the largest genome size currently known on earth. They phagocytose any inert particle larger than 0.5 µm. Phagocytic amoebae can harbor different bacteria, fungi and giant viruses within the same cell.
Didier, Raoult, Mickael, Boyer
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Discovery and Further Studies on Giant Viruses at the IHU Mediterranee Infection That Modified the Perception of the Virosphere

Viruses, 2019
The history of giant viruses began in 2003 with the identification of Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus. Since then, giant viruses of amoeba enlightened an unknown part of the viral world, and every discovery and characterization of a new giant virus ...
Clara Rolland, Julien Andreani, Amina Cherif Louazani, Sarah Aherfi, Rania Francis, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Ludmila Santos Silva, Dehia Sahmi, Said Mougari, Nisrine Chelkha, Meriem Bekliz, Lorena Silva, Felipe Assis, Fábio Dornas, Jacques Yaacoub Bou Khalil, Isabelle Pagnier, Christelle Desnues, Anthony Levasseur, Philippe Colson, Jônatas Abrahão, Bernard La Scola   +20 more
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Cysteine Redox State Governs the Condensation Pathway of Hendra Virus W Protein and Differentially Impacts Type I IFN and NF‐κB Signaling

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The cysteine redox state of the Hendra virus W (WHeV) protein controls assembly into fibrils or amorphous aggregates, with residues 2–29 required for fibrillation. In cells, WHeV forms different types of nuclear condensates. Impaired ability to form redox‐sensitive, non‐filamentous condensates reduces WHeV inhibition of the NF‐κB pathway, while it ...
Frank Gondelaud, Alexandre Lalande, Giulia Pesce, Auriane Bouchet, Carole Meunier, Christophe Bignon, Denis Ptchelkine, Yu Gu, Eva Ogire, Pierre‐Yves Lozach, Denis Gerlier, Cyrille Mathieu, Sonia Longhi   +12 more
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Allosteric Inhibition of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 by an EZH2‐Selective Small Molecule Inhibitor

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study characterizes C36, a highly selective EZH2/PRC2 inhibitor that acts via a novel allosteric mechanism. Unlike previous inhibitors, C36 inhibits EZH2/PRC2 by disrupting the allosteric communication between EZH2 and EED in a SAM‐noncompetitive manner.
Ting Cao, Dongdong Liu, Haishan Gao, Chenyang Qin, Wen Zhang, Ziyun Lu, Dongxia Tan, Yuxiu Qu, Yusong Liu, Zhiran Zou, Hongtao Yu, Wei Qi   +11 more
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Giant marine viruses?

Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1992
Unusually large virus-hke particles (VLPs) with tails were found in water samples from Norwegian and Danish coastal waters. Size of the VLP heads were 340 to 400 nm and the tails were 2.2 to 2.8 vm long. The VLPs occurred at a maximum concentration of about 104 ml-'. The possible hosts are unknown.
G Bratbak, OH Haslund, M Heldal, A Naess, T Roeggen   +4 more
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Structural Polymorphism of polyG Inclusions Revealed by In Situ Cryo‐Electron Tomography

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Correlative cryo‐electron tomography in primary cortical neurons and NIID mouse brain tissue reveals that polyG inclusions are interconnected ribbon‐like assemblies rather than canonical amyloid fibrils. Multiple compartment‐specific ribbon states show distinct 26S proteasome accessibility, while cytoplasmic ribbons contact and deform ER‐like ...
Yunwen Qian, Yalan Wan, Chen Chen, Xiaoyu Zheng, Wenjing Du, Junhan Yang, Zhihao Quan, Biyu Yang, Jiaxi Yu, Jie Zheng, Zhaoxia Wang, Jianwen Deng, Qiang Guo   +12 more
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Gap‐Free Information Transfer in 4D‐STEM via Fusion of Complementary Scattering Channels

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Fused Full‐Field STEM (FF‐STEM) is introduced as a 4D‐STEM imaging modality that combines direct ptychography with tilt‐corrected dark‐field reconstruction in a single acquisition. Fourier‐space fusion using Wiener‐type spectral weighting closes the low‐frequency contrast gap inherent to bright‐field methods, delivering gap‐free, dose‐efficient, near ...
Shengbo You, Georgios Varnavides, Sagar Khavnekar, Nikita Palatkin, Sihan Shao, Mingjian Wu, Daniel Stroppa, Darya Chernikova, Baixu Zhu, Ricardo Egoavil, Stefano Vespucci, Dileep Krishnan, Xingchen Ye, Florian K. M. Schur, Erdmann Spiecker, Philipp Pelz   +15 more
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G‐Quadruplexes: Structural Diversity and Emerging Roles in Biomolecular Condensation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
G‐quadruplexes (G4s) fold into diverse intra‐ and intermolecular structures, positioning them as emerging regulators of biomolecular condensation. Mechanistically, G4s autonomously form condensates, act as structural platforms to initiate and stimulate condensation, or induce phase transitions.
Wenmeng Wang, Qingqing Xu, Yuxin Zhang, Fang Liu, Guangchao Sui, Dangdang Li   +5 more
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The role of giant viruses of amoebas in humans [PDF]

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2016
Since 2003, dozens of giant viruses that infect amoebas (GVA), including mimiviruses and marseilleviruses, have been discovered. These giants appear to be common in our biosphere. From the onset, their presence and possible pathogenic role in humans have been serendipitously observed or investigated using a broad range of technological approaches ...
Colson, Philippe, Aherfi, Sarah, La Scola, Bernard, Raoult, Didier   +3 more
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Single‐Atom‐Enhanced Fully Inkjet‐Printed Electrochemical Sensor for Dopamine Detection

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Fully inkjet‐printed paper‐based dopamine sensors are fabricated using nitrogen‐doped graphene acid functionalized with copper single atoms. The copper sites uniquely enhance dopamine oxidation through strong molecular adsorption, as verified by electrochemical measurements and DFT calculations. The approach highlights the potential of single‐atom inks
Martin‐Alex Nalepa, David Panáček, Vítězslav Hrubý, Matěj Jendrišák, Rostislav Langer, Michal Langer, Petr Jakubec, Ivan Dědek, Vojtěch Kupka, Michal Mazur, Radek Zbořil, Michal Otyepka   +11 more
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