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Structural Studies of the Giant Mimivirus [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2009 Mimivirus is the largest known virus whose genome and physical size are comparable to some small bacteria, blurring the boundary between a virus and a cell.
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Marine mimivirus relatives are probably large algal viruses [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2008 Background Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus is the largest known ds-DNA virus and its 1.2 Mb-genome sequence has revealed many unique features. Mimivirus occupies an independent lineage among eukaryotic viruses and its known hosts include only species ...
Claverie Jean-Michel +5 more
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PCR Detection of Mimivirus [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 In an epidemiological study, mimivirus was reported as an unlikely cause of human respiratory infections in China. Our analysis revealed the nonsensitivity of the PCR method, which detected less than 10% of the current known mimivirus.
Didier Raoult +2 more
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Mimivirus in Pneumonia Patients
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Mimivirus, the largest virus known to date, is an amebal pathogen like Legionella spp. When mimivirus was used as an antigen in a migration inhibition factor assay, seroconversion was found in patients with both community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Bernard La Scola +3 more
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Mimivirus relatives in the Sargasso sea [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2005 The discovery and genome analysis of Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus, the largest known DNA virus, challenged much of the accepted dogma regarding viruses. Its particle size (>400 nm), genome length (1.2 million bp) and huge gene repertoire (911 protein
Claverie Jean-Michel, Ghedin Elodie
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Giant viruses, giant chimeras: The multiple evolutionary histories of Mimivirus genes [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008 Background Although capable to evolve, viruses are generally considered non-living entities because they are acellular and devoid of metabolism. However, the recent publication of the genome sequence of the Mimivirus, a giant virus that parasitises ...
Brochier-Armanet Céline, Moreira David
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Viruses, 2022 Mimiviruses are giant viruses of amoeba that can be found in association with virophages. These satellite-like viruses are dependent on the mimivirus viral factory to replicate.
Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues +2 more
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Expanding the Occurrence of Polysaccharides to the Viral World: The Case of Mimivirus
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2021 The giant virus Mimivirus has an icosahedral capsid embedded in a thick layer of fibrils, resembling the glycocalyx of many bacteria. This study revealed that these fibrils are composed by a limited set of carrier proteins which bear two distinct polysaccharides.
Gianluca Damonte +2 more
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Identification of giant Mimivirus protein functions using RNA interference [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Genomic analysis of giant viruses, such as Mimivirus, has revealed that more than half of the putative genes have no known functions (ORFans). We knocked down Mimivirus genes using short interfering RNA (siRNA) as a proof of concept to determine the ...
Haitham eSobhy +7 more
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Broad Spectrum of Mimiviridae Virophage Allows Its Isolation Using a Mimivirus Reporter [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The giant virus Mimiviridae family includes 3 groups of viruses: group A (includes Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus), group B (includes Moumouvirus) and group C (includes Megavirus chilensis).
Bernard La Scola +2 more
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