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Rowe JM, Dunigan DD, Blanc G, Gurnon JR, Xia Y, Van Etten JL. Evaluation of higher plant virus resistance genes in the green alga, Chlorella variabilis NC64A, during the early phase of infection with Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus-1. Virology 2013; 442:101-13. [PMID: 23701839 PMCID: PMC4107423 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2013] [Revised: 04/18/2013] [Accepted: 04/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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With growing industrial interest in algae plus their critical roles in aquatic systems, the need to understand the effects of algal pathogens is increasing. We examined a model algal host-virus system, Chlorella variabilis NC64A and virus, PBCV-1. C. variabilis encodes 375 homologs to genes involved in RNA silencing and in response to virus infection in higher plants. Illumina RNA-Seq data showed that 325 of these homologs were expressed in healthy and early PBCV-1 infected (≤60min) cells. For each of the RNA silencing genes to which homologs were found, mRNA transcripts were detected in healthy and infected cells. C. variabilis, like higher plants, may employ certain RNA silencing pathways to defend itself against virus infection. To our knowledge this is the first examination of RNA silencing genes in algae beyond core proteins, and the first analysis of their transcription during virus infection.
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- Janet M. Rowe
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
- Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
- Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
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- Structural and Génomique Information Laboratoire, UMR7256 CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, FR-13385, France
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
- Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
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- Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0665, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
- Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0900, United States
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Pushker R, Mooney C, Davey NE, Jacqué JM, Shields DC. Marked variability in the extent of protein disorder within and between viral families. PLoS One 2013; 8:e60724. [PMID: 23620725 PMCID: PMC3631256 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2012] [Accepted: 03/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered regions in eukaryotic proteomes contain key signaling and regulatory modules and mediate interactions with many proteins. Many viral proteomes encode disordered proteins and modulate host factors through the use of short linear motifs (SLiMs) embedded within disordered regions. However, the degree of viral protein disorder across different viruses is not well understood, so we set out to establish the constraints acting on viruses, in terms of their use of disordered protein regions. We surveyed predicted disorder across 2,278 available viral genomes in 41 families, and correlated the extent of disorder with genome size and other factors. Protein disorder varies strikingly between viral families (from 2.9% to 23.1% of residues), and also within families. However, this substantial variation did not follow the established trend among their hosts, with increasing disorder seen across eubacterial, archaebacterial, protists, and multicellular eukaryotes. For example, among large mammalian viruses, poxviruses and herpesviruses showed markedly differing disorder (5.6% and 17.9%, respectively). Viral families with smaller genome sizes have more disorder within each of five main viral types (ssDNA, dsDNA, ssRNA+, dsRNA, retroviruses), except for negative single-stranded RNA viruses, where disorder increased with genome size. However, surveying over all viruses, which compares tiny and enormous viruses over a much bigger range of genome sizes, there is no strong association of genome size with protein disorder. We conclude that there is extensive variation in the disorder content of viral proteomes. While a proportion of this may relate to base composition, to extent of gene overlap, and to genome size within viral types, there remain important additional family and virus-specific effects. Differing disorder strategies are likely to impact on how different viruses modulate host factors, and on how rapidly viruses can evolve novel instances of SLiMs subverting host functions, such as innate and acquired immunity.
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- Ravindra Pushker
- UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- EMBL Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany
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- UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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Jeanniard A, Dunigan DD, Gurnon JR, Agarkova IV, Kang M, Vitek J, Duncan G, McClung OW, Larsen M, Claverie JM, Van Etten JL, Blanc G. Towards defining the chloroviruses: a genomic journey through a genus of large DNA viruses. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:158. [PMID: 23497343 PMCID: PMC3602175 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2012] [Accepted: 02/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Giant viruses in the genus Chlorovirus (family Phycodnaviridae) infect eukaryotic green microalgae. The prototype member of the genus, Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1, was sequenced more than 15 years ago, and to date there are only 6 fully sequenced chloroviruses in public databases. Presented here are the draft genome sequences of 35 additional chloroviruses (287 – 348 Kb/319 – 381 predicted protein encoding genes) collected across the globe; they infect one of three different green algal species. These new data allowed us to analyze the genomic landscape of 41 chloroviruses, which revealed some remarkable features about these viruses. Results Genome colinearity, nucleotide conservation and phylogenetic affinity were limited to chloroviruses infecting the same host, confirming the validity of the three previously known subgenera. Clues for the existence of a fourth new subgenus indicate that the boundaries of chlorovirus diversity are not completely determined. Comparison of the chlorovirus phylogeny with that of the algal hosts indicates that chloroviruses have changed hosts in their evolutionary history. Reconstruction of the ancestral genome suggests that the last common chlorovirus ancestor had a slightly more diverse protein repertoire than modern chloroviruses. However, more than half of the defined chlorovirus gene families have a potential recent origin (after Chlorovirus divergence), among which a portion shows compositional evidence for horizontal gene transfer. Only a few of the putative acquired proteins had close homologs in databases raising the question of the true donor organism(s). Phylogenomic analysis identified only seven proteins whose genes were potentially exchanged between the algal host and the chloroviruses. Conclusion The present evaluation of the genomic evolution pattern suggests that chloroviruses differ from that described in the related Poxviridae and Mimiviridae. Our study shows that the fixation of algal host genes has been anecdotal in the evolutionary history of chloroviruses. We finally discuss the incongruence between compositional evidence of horizontal gene transfer and lack of close relative sequences in the databases, which suggests that the recently acquired genes originate from a still largely un-sequenced reservoir of genomes, possibly other unknown viruses that infect the same hosts.
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- Adrien Jeanniard
- Information Génomique & Structurale, IGS UMR7256, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, FR-13288, Marseille, France
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