Faustoviruses: Comparative genomics of new Megavirales family members [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 An emerging interest for the giant virus discovery process, genome sequencing and analysis has allowed an expansion of the number of known Megavirales members. Using the protist Vermamoeba sp. as cell support, a new giant virus named Faustovirus has been
Samia eBenamar +5 more
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Viral metagenomic analysis of fecal samples reveals an enteric virome signature in irritable bowel syndrome [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2020 Background Changes in the enteric microbiota have been suggested to contribute to gastrointestinal diseases, including irritable bowel syndrome. Most of the published work is on bacterial dysbiosis with meager data on the role of the virome in irritable ...
Mina Hojat Ansari +6 more
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Ancestrality and Mosaicism of Giant Viruses Supporting the Definition of the Fourth TRUC of Microbes [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Giant viruses of amoebae were discovered in 2003. Since then, their diversity has greatly expanded. They were suggested to form a fourth branch of life, collectively named ‘TRUC’ (for “Things Resisting Uncompleted Classifications”) alongside Bacteria ...
Philippe Colson +10 more
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Kaumoebavirus, a New Virus That Clusters with Faustoviruses and Asfarviridae [PDF]
Viruses, 2016 In this study, we report the isolation of a new giant virus found in sewage water from the southern area of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), with morphological and genomic resemblance to Faustoviruses.
Leena H. Bajrai +6 more
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Taxonomic, functional and expression analysis of viral communities associated with marine sponges [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Viruses play an essential role in shaping the structure and function of ecological communities. Marine sponges have the capacity to filter large volumes of ‘virus-laden’ seawater through their bodies and host dense communities of microbial symbionts ...
Mary Nguyen +4 more
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Promoter Motifs in NCLDVs: An Evolutionary Perspective [PDF]
Viruses, 2017 For many years, gene expression in the three cellular domains has been studied in an attempt to discover sequences associated with the regulation of the transcription process. Some specific transcriptional features were described in viruses, although few
Graziele Pereira Oliveira +11 more
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MG-Digger: an automated pipeline to search for giant virus-related sequences in metagenomes [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 The number of metagenomic studies conducted each year is growing dramatically. Storage and analysis of such big data is difficult and time-consuming. Interestingly, analysis shows that environmental and human metagenomes include a significant amount of ...
Jonathan eVerneau +4 more
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Pithovirus sibericum, a new bona fide member of the Fourth TRUC club [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses, or representatives of the proposed order Megavirales, include giant viruses of Acanthamoeba that were discovered over the last 12 years and are bona fide microbes.
Vikas eSharma +7 more
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Welcome to pandoraviruses at the 'Fourth TRUC’ club [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs), or representatives of the proposed order Megavirales, belong to families of giant viruses that infect a broad range of eukaryotic hosts.
Vikas eSharma +8 more
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A Family of Novel Cyclophilins, Conserved in the Mimivirus Genus of the Giant DNA Viruses [PDF]
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2018 The cyclophilin (abbreviated here as CYN) family represents a large group of protein prolyl isomerase (PPIase), many of which are also chaperones that promote proper folding of a large variety of client proteins. Over the past few years, megaviruses with
Sailen Barik
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