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Structural and Mechanistic Analyses Reveal a Unique Cas4-like Protein in the Mimivirus Virophage Resistance Element System

iScience, 2018
Summary: A clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-like “mimivirus virophage resistance element” (MIMIVIRE) system, which contains specific cascade genes and a CRISPR array against virophages, was reported in mimiviruses.
Chao Dou, Mingjing Yu, Yijun Gu, Jinjing Wang, Kun Yin, Chunlai Nie, Xiaofeng Zhu, Shiqian Qi, Yuquan Wei, Wei Cheng   +9 more
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Giant viruses coexisted with the cellular ancestors and represent a distinct supergroup along with superkingdoms Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012
Background The discovery of giant viruses with genome and physical size comparable to cellular organisms, remnants of protein translation machinery and virus-specific parasites (virophages) have raised intriguing questions about their origin.
Nasir Arshan, Kim Kyung, Caetano-Anolles Gustavo   +2 more
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How the virophage compels the need to readdress the classification of microbes

Virology, 2015
The discovery of Mimivirus opened the door to reclassifying viruses and microorganisms. Because the definition of a virus had been based on their putative small size, giant viruses have been widely neglected, as have their own viral parasites: the virophage.
openaire   +2 more sources

'Virophage' suggests viruses are alive [PDF]

Nature, 2008
openaire   +1 more source

Unveiling the cryptic diversity and distribution of elements related to virophage mavirus through deep mining of pPolB proteins. [PDF]

Virol Sin
Wei Y, Liu Q, Gong Z, Han GZ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Harnessing engineered virophages: a novel frontier against antibiotic-resistant superbugs. [PDF]

Ann Med Surg (Lond)
Talha M, Khalid M, Jafar HM, Waafira A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Endogenous DNA viruses take center stage in eukaryotic genome evolution. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Moniruzzaman M, Aylward FO.
europepmc   +1 more source

BEREN: a bioinformatic tool for recovering giant viruses, polinton-like viruses, and virophages in metagenomic data. [PDF]

Bioinform Adv
Minch B, Moniruzzaman M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Isolation and Identification of a Large Green Alga Virus (Chlorella Virus XW01) of Mimiviridae and Its Virophage (Chlorella Virus Virophage SW01) by Using Unicellular Green Algal Cultures. [PDF]

J Virol, 2022
Sheng Y, Wu Z, Xu S, Wang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Diving into the hidden viral world of marine protists. [PDF]

J Virol
Surgenor K, McCormick C.
europepmc   +1 more source