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Bhoobalan-Chitty Y, Xu S, Martinez-Alvarez L, Karamycheva S, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Peng X. Regulatory sequence-based discovery of anti-defense genes in archaeal viruses. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3699. [PMID: 38698035 PMCID: PMC11065993 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48074-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024] Open
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In silico identification of viral anti-CRISPR proteins (Acrs) has relied largely on the guilt-by-association method using known Acrs or anti-CRISPR associated proteins (Acas) as the bait. However, the low number and limited spread of the characterized archaeal Acrs and Aca hinders our ability to identify Acrs using guilt-by-association. Here, based on the observation that the few characterized archaeal Acrs and Aca are transcribed immediately post viral infection, we hypothesize that these genes, and many other unidentified anti-defense genes (ADG), are under the control of conserved regulatory sequences including a strong promoter, which can be used to predict anti-defense genes in archaeal viruses. Using this consensus sequence based method, we identify 354 potential ADGs in 57 archaeal viruses and 6 metagenome-assembled genomes. Experimental validation identified a CRISPR subtype I-A inhibitor and the first virally encoded inhibitor of an archaeal toxin-antitoxin based immune system. We also identify regulatory proteins potentially akin to Acas that can facilitate further identification of ADGs combined with the guilt-by-association approach. These results demonstrate the potential of regulatory sequence analysis for extensive identification of ADGs in viruses of archaea and bacteria.
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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Chang L, Wang F, Connolly K, Meng H, Su Z, Cvirkaite-Krupovic V, Krupovic M, Egelman EH, Si D. DeepTracer-ID: De novo protein identification from cryo-EM maps. Biophys J 2022; 121:2840-2848. [PMID: 35769006 PMCID: PMC9388381 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.06.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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The recent revolution in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has made it possible to determine macromolecular structures directly from cell extracts. However, identifying the correct protein from the cryo-EM map is still challenging and often needs additional sequence information from other techniques, such as tandem mass spectrometry and/or bioinformatics. Here, we present DeepTracer-ID, a server-based approach to identify the candidate protein in a user-provided organism de novo from a cryo-EM map, without the need for additional information. Our method first uses DeepTracer to generate a protein backbone model that best represents the cryo-EM map, and this model is then searched against the library of AlphaFold2 predictions for all proteins in the given organism. This method is highly accurate and robust for high-resolution cryo-EM maps: in all 13 experimental maps tested blindly, DeepTracer-ID identified the correct proteins as the top candidates. Eight of the maps were of known structures, while the other five unpublished maps were validated by prior protein annotation and careful inspection of the model refined into the map. The program also showed promising results for both homomeric and heteromeric protein complexes. This platform is possible because of the recent breakthroughs in large-scale three-dimensional protein structure prediction.
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- Luca Chang
- Division of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, Washington
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Division of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, Washington
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR6047, Archaeal Virology Unit, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Division of Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, Washington.
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Turzynski V, Monsees I, Moraru C, Probst AJ. Imaging Techniques for Detecting Prokaryotic Viruses in Environmental Samples. Viruses 2021; 13:2126. [PMID: 34834933 PMCID: PMC8622608 DOI: 10.3390/v13112126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth with an estimate of 1031 viral particles across all ecosystems. Prokaryotic viruses-bacteriophages and archaeal viruses-influence global biogeochemical cycles by shaping microbial communities through predation, through the effect of horizontal gene transfer on the host genome evolution, and through manipulating the host cellular metabolism. Imaging techniques have played an important role in understanding the biology and lifestyle of prokaryotic viruses. Specifically, structure-resolving microscopy methods, for example, transmission electron microscopy, are commonly used for understanding viral morphology, ultrastructure, and host interaction. These methods have been applied mostly to cultivated phage-host pairs. However, recent advances in environmental genomics have demonstrated that the majority of viruses remain uncultivated, and thus microscopically uncharacterized. Although light- and structure-resolving microscopy of viruses from environmental samples is possible, quite often the link between the visualization and the genomic information of uncultivated prokaryotic viruses is missing. In this minireview, we summarize the current state of the art of imaging techniques available for characterizing viruses in environmental samples and discuss potential links between viral imaging and environmental genomics for shedding light on the morphology of uncultivated viruses and their lifestyles in Earth's ecosystems.
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- Victoria Turzynski
- Department of Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany;
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- Department of Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany;
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 9-11, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany;
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- Department of Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology (EMB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany;
- Centre of Water and Environmental Research (ZWU), University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 5, 45141 Essen, Germany
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Aljabali AAA, Hassan S, Pabari RM, Shahcheraghi SH, Mishra V, Charbe NB, Chellappan DK, Dureja H, Gupta G, Almutary AG, Alnuqaydan AM, Verma SK, Panda PK, Mishra YK, Serrano-Aroca Á, Dua K, Uversky VN, Redwan EM, Bahar B, Bhatia A, Negi P, Goyal R, McCarron P, Bakshi HA, Tambuwala MM. The viral capsid as novel nanomaterials for drug delivery. Future Sci OA 2021; 7:FSO744. [PMID: 34737885 PMCID: PMC8558853 DOI: 10.2144/fsoa-2021-0031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The purpose of this review is to highlight recent scientific developments and provide an overview of virus self-assembly and viral particle dynamics. Viruses are organized supramolecular structures with distinct yet related features and functions. Plant viruses are extensively used in biotechnology, and virus-like particulate matter is generated by genetic modification. Both provide a material-based means for selective distribution and delivery of drug molecules. Through surface engineering of their capsids, virus-derived nanomaterials facilitate various potential applications for selective drug delivery. Viruses have significant implications in chemotherapy, gene transfer, vaccine production, immunotherapy and molecular imaging.
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- Alaa AA Aljabali
- Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Technology, Yarmouk University, Irbid, 21163, Jordan
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- Department of Mathematics, Pingla Thana Mahavidyalaya, Paschim Medinipur, India
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- School of Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Infectious Diseases Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi Hospital, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX 78363, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, School of Pharmacy, International Medical University, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, 57000, Malaysia
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 124001, India
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- School of Pharmacy, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Mahal Road, Jagatpura, Jaipur, 302017, India
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
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- Condensed Matter Theory Group, Materials Theory Division, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75120, Sweden
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- Condensed Matter Theory Group, Materials Theory Division, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75120, Sweden
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- University of Southern Denmark, Mads Clausen Institute, NanoSYD, Alsion 2, Sønderborg 6400, Denmark
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- Biomaterials & Bioengineering Lab, Centro de Investigación Traslacional San Alberto Magno, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Valencia, 46001, Spain
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- Discipline of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- King Abdulazizi University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Science, Saudi Arabia
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- International Institute of Nutritional Sciences & Food Safety Studies, School of Sport & Health Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2HE, UK
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- Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University Dabwali Road, Bathinda, Punjab, 151001, India
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology & Management Sciences, Solan, 173229, India
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology & Management Sciences, Solan, 173229, India
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- School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Science, Ulster University, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA, UK
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- School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Science, Ulster University, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA, UK
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- School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Science, Ulster University, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA, UK
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A filamentous archaeal virus is enveloped inside the cell and released through pyramidal portals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2105540118. [PMID: 34341107 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105540118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The majority of viruses infecting hyperthermophilic archaea display unique virion architectures and are evolutionarily unrelated to viruses of bacteria and eukaryotes. The lack of relationships to other known viruses suggests that the mechanisms of virus-host interaction in Archaea are also likely to be distinct. To gain insights into archaeal virus-host interactions, we studied the life cycle of the enveloped, ∼2-μm-long Sulfolobus islandicus filamentous virus (SIFV), a member of the family Lipothrixviridae infecting a hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon Saccharolobus islandicus LAL14/1. Using dual-axis electron tomography and convolutional neural network analysis, we characterize the life cycle of SIFV and show that the virions, which are nearly two times longer than the host cell diameter, are assembled in the cell cytoplasm, forming twisted virion bundles organized on a nonperfect hexagonal lattice. Remarkably, our results indicate that envelopment of the helical nucleocapsids takes place inside the cell rather than by budding as in the case of most other known enveloped viruses. The mature virions are released from the cell through large (up to 220 nm in diameter), six-sided pyramidal portals, which are built from multiple copies of a single 89-amino-acid-long viral protein gp43. The overexpression of this protein in Escherichia coli leads to pyramid formation in the bacterial membrane. Collectively, our results provide insights into the assembly and release of enveloped filamentous viruses and illuminate the evolution of virus-host interactions in Archaea.
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Callanan J, Stockdale SR, Shkoporov A, Draper LA, Ross RP, Hill C. Biases in Viral Metagenomics-Based Detection, Cataloguing and Quantification of Bacteriophage Genomes in Human Faeces, a Review. Microorganisms 2021; 9:524. [PMID: 33806607 PMCID: PMC8000950 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9030524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The human gut is colonised by a vast array of microbes that include bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea. While interest in these microbial entities has largely focused on the bacterial constituents, recently the viral component has attracted more attention. Metagenomic advances, compared to classical isolation procedures, have greatly enhanced our understanding of the composition, diversity, and function of viruses in the human microbiome (virome). We highlight that viral extraction methodologies are crucial in terms of identifying and characterising communities of viruses infecting eukaryotes and bacteria. Different viral extraction protocols, including those used in some of the most significant human virome publications to date, have introduced biases affecting their a overall conclusions. It is important that protocol variations should be clearly highlighted across studies, with the ultimate goal of identifying and acknowledging biases associated with different protocols and, perhaps, the generation of an unbiased and standardised method for examining this portion of the human microbiome.
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- APC Microbiome Ireland and School of Microbiology, University College Cork, T12 YT20 Cork, Ireland; (J.C.); (S.R.S.); (A.S.); (L.A.D.); (R.P.R.)
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New virus isolates from Italian hydrothermal environments underscore the biogeographic pattern in archaeal virus communities. ISME JOURNAL 2020; 14:1821-1833. [PMID: 32322010 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0653-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 03/28/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Viruses of hyperthermophilic archaea represent one of the least understood parts of the virosphere, showing little genomic and morphological similarity to viruses of bacteria or eukaryotes. Here, we investigated virus diversity in the active sulfurous fields of the Campi Flegrei volcano in Pozzuoli, Italy. Virus-like particles displaying eight different morphotypes, including lemon-shaped, droplet-shaped and bottle-shaped virions, were observed and five new archaeal viruses proposed to belong to families Rudiviridae, Globuloviridae and Tristromaviridae were isolated and characterized. Two of these viruses infect neutrophilic hyperthermophiles of the genus Pyrobaculum, whereas the remaining three have rod-shaped virions typical of the family Rudiviridae and infect acidophilic hyperthermophiles belonging to three different genera of the order Sulfolobales, namely, Saccharolobus, Acidianus, and Metallosphaera. Notably, Metallosphaera rod-shaped virus 1 is the first rudivirus isolated on Metallosphaera species. Phylogenomic analysis of the newly isolated and previously sequenced rudiviruses revealed a clear biogeographic pattern, with all Italian rudiviruses forming a monophyletic clade, suggesting geographical structuring of virus communities in extreme geothermal environments. Analysis of the CRISPR spacers suggests that isolated rudiviruses have experienced recent host switching across the genus boundary, potentially to escape the targeting by CRISPR-Cas immunity systems. Finally, we propose a revised classification of the Rudiviridae family, with the establishment of six new genera. Collectively, our results further show that high-temperature continental hydrothermal systems harbor a highly diverse virome and shed light on the evolution of archaeal viruses.
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Deaton J, Yu FB, Quake SR. Mini-Metagenomics and Nucleotide Composition Aid the Identification and Host Association of Novel Bacteriophage Sequences. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 3:e1900108. [PMID: 32648690 DOI: 10.1002/adbi.201900108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2019] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A broad spectrum of metagenomic and single cell sequencing techniques have become popular for dissecting environmental microbial diversity, leading to the characterization of thousands of novel microbial lineages. In addition to recovering bacterial and archaeal genomes, metagenomic assembly can also produce genomes of viruses that infect microbial cells. Because of their diversity, lack of marker genes, and small genome size, identifying novel bacteriophage sequences from metagenomic data is often challenging, especially when the objective is to establish phage-host relationships. The present work describes a computational approach that uses supervised learning to classify metagenomic contigs as phage or non-phage as well as assigning phage taxonomy based on tetranucleotide frequencies. Furthermore, the method assigns phage-host relationships using co-occurrence statistics derived from a recently developed mini-metagenomic experimental technique. This work evaluates method performance at identifying viral contigs and predicting taxonomic classification using publicly available references. Then, using two mini-metagenomic datasets, over 100 novel phage contigs from hot spring samples of Yellowstone National Park are identified and assigned to putative microbial hosts. Results of this work demonstrate the value of combining viral sequence identification with mini-metagenomic experimental methods to understand the microbial ecosystem.
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- Jonathan Deaton
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, 499 Illinois St, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, 499 Illinois St, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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Zhang QY, Gui JF. Diversity, evolutionary contribution and ecological roles of aquatic viruses. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 2018; 61:1486-1502. [DOI: 10.1007/s11427-018-9414-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Chaudhury P, Quax TEF, Albers SV. Versatile cell surface structures of archaea. Mol Microbiol 2017; 107:298-311. [PMID: 29194812 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Archaea are ubiquitously present in nature and colonize environments with broadly varying growth conditions. Several surface appendages support their colonization of new habitats. A hallmark of archaea seems to be the high abundance of type IV pili (T4P). However, some unique non T4 filaments are present in a number of archaeal species. Archaeal surface structures can mediate different processes such as cellular surface adhesion, DNA exchange, motility and biofilm formation and represent an initial attachment site for infecting viruses. In addition to the functionally characterized archaeal T4P, archaeal genomes encode a large number of T4P components that might form yet undiscovered surface structures with novel functions. In this review, we summarize recent advancement in structural and functional characterizations of known archaeal surface structures and highlight the diverse processes in which they play a role.
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- Paushali Chaudhury
- Institute of Biology II, Molecular Biology of Archaea, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Molecular Biology of Archaea, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology II, Molecular Biology of Archaea, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Delattre H, Souiai O, Fagoonee K, Guerois R, Petit MA. Phagonaute: A web-based interface for phage synteny browsing and protein function prediction. Virology 2016; 496:42-50. [PMID: 27254594 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2016] [Revised: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Distant homology search tools are of great help to predict viral protein functions. However, due to the lack of profile databases dedicated to viruses, they can lack sensitivity. We constructed HMM profiles for more than 80,000 proteins from both phages and archaeal viruses, and performed all pairwise comparisons with HHsearch program. The whole resulting database can be explored through a user-friendly "Phagonaute" interface to help predict functions. Results are displayed together with their genetic context, to strengthen inferences based on remote homology. Beyond function prediction, this tool permits detections of co-occurrences, often indicative of proteins completing a task together, and observation of conserved patterns across large evolutionary distances. As a test, Herpes simplex virus I was added to Phagonaute, and 25% of its proteome matched to bacterial or archaeal viral protein counterparts. Phagonaute should therefore help virologists in their quest for protein functions and evolutionary relationships.
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- Hadrien Delattre
- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- I2BC, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France.
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Gudbergsdóttir SR, Menzel P, Krogh A, Young M, Peng X. Novel viral genomes identified from six metagenomes reveal wide distribution of archaeal viruses and high viral diversity in terrestrial hot springs. Environ Microbiol 2015; 18:863-74. [PMID: 26439881 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Limited by culture-dependent methods the number of viruses identified from thermophilic Archaea and Bacteria is still very small. In this study we retrieved viral sequences from six hot spring metagenomes isolated worldwide, revealing a wide distribution of four archaeal viral families, Ampullaviridae, Bicaudaviridae, Lipothrixviridae and Rudiviridae. Importantly, we identified 10 complete or near complete viral genomes allowing, for the first time, an assessment of genome conservation and evolution of the Ampullaviridae family as well as Sulfolobus Monocaudavirus 1 (SMV1)-related viruses. Among the novel genomes, one belongs to a putative thermophilic virus infecting the bacterium Hydrogenobaculum, for which no virus has been reported in the literature. Moreover, a high viral diversity was observed in the metagenomes, especially among the Lipothrixviridae, as indicated by the large number of unique contigs and the lack of a completely assembled genome for this family. This is further supported by the large number of novel genes in the complete and partial genomes showing no sequence similarities to public databases. CRISPR analysis revealed hundreds of novel CRISPR loci and thousands of novel CRISPR spacers from each metagenome, reinforcing the notion of high viral diversity in the thermal environment.
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen N, DK-2200, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen N, DK-2200, Denmark
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- Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717-3150, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen N, DK-2200, Denmark
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SUMMARY Research on archaeal extrachromosomal genetic elements (ECEs) has progressed rapidly in the past decade. To date, over 60 archaeal viruses and 60 plasmids have been isolated. These archaeal viruses exhibit an exceptional diversity in morphology, with a wide array of shapes, such as spindles, rods, filaments, spheres, head-tails, bottles, and droplets, and some of these new viruses have been classified into one order, 10 families, and 16 genera. Investigation of model archaeal viruses has yielded important insights into mechanisms underlining various steps in the viral life cycle, including infection, DNA replication and transcription, and virion egression. Many of these mechanisms are unprecedented for any known bacterial or eukaryal viruses. Studies of plasmids isolated from different archaeal hosts have also revealed a striking diversity in gene content and innovation in replication strategies. Highly divergent replication proteins are identified in both viral and plasmid genomes. Genomic studies of archaeal ECEs have revealed a modular sequence structure in which modules of DNA sequence are exchangeable within, as well as among, plasmid families and probably also between viruses and plasmids. In particular, it has been suggested that ECE-host interactions have shaped the coevolution of ECEs and their archaeal hosts. Furthermore, archaeal hosts have developed defense systems, including the innate restriction-modification (R-M) system and the adaptive CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) system, to restrict invasive plasmids and viruses. Together, these interactions permit a delicate balance between ECEs and their hosts, which is vitally important for maintaining an innovative gene reservoir carried by ECEs. In conclusion, while research on archaeal ECEs has just started to unravel the molecular biology of these genetic entities and their interactions with archaeal hosts, it is expected to accelerate in the next decade.
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Guo Y, Kragelund BB, White MF, Peng X. Functional Characterization of a Conserved Archaeal Viral Operon Revealing Single-Stranded DNA Binding, Annealing and Nuclease Activities. J Mol Biol 2015; 427:2179-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Revised: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Garrett RA, Shah SA, Erdmann S, Liu G, Mousaei M, León-Sobrino C, Peng W, Gudbergsdottir S, Deng L, Vestergaard G, Peng X, She Q. CRISPR-Cas Adaptive Immune Systems of the Sulfolobales: Unravelling Their Complexity and Diversity. Life (Basel) 2015; 5:783-817. [PMID: 25764276 PMCID: PMC4390879 DOI: 10.3390/life5010783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2015] [Revised: 02/24/2015] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The Sulfolobales have provided good model organisms for studying CRISPR-Cas systems of the crenarchaeal kingdom of the archaea. These organisms are infected by a wide range of exceptional archaea-specific viruses and conjugative plasmids, and their CRISPR-Cas systems generally exhibit extensive structural and functional diversity. They carry large and multiple CRISPR loci and often multiple copies of diverse Type I and Type III interference modules as well as more homogeneous adaptation modules. These acidothermophilic organisms have recently provided seminal insights into both the adaptation process, the diverse modes of interference, and their modes of regulation. The functions of the adaptation and interference modules tend to be loosely coupled and the stringency of the crRNA-DNA sequence matching during DNA interference is relatively low, in contrast to some more streamlined CRISPR-Cas systems of bacteria. Despite this, there is evidence for a complex and differential regulation of expression of the diverse functional modules in response to viral infection. Recent work also supports critical roles for non-core Cas proteins, especially during Type III-directed interference, and this is consistent with these proteins tending to coevolve with core Cas proteins. Various novel aspects of CRISPR-Cas systems of the Sulfolobales are considered including an alternative spacer acquisition mechanism, reversible spacer acquisition, the formation and significance of antisense CRISPR RNAs, and a novel mechanism for avoidance of CRISPR-Cas defense. Finally, questions regarding the basis for the complexity, diversity, and apparent redundancy, of the intracellular CRISPR-Cas systems are discussed.
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- Roger A Garrett
- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, 2052 Sydney NSW, Australia.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Research Unit Environmental Genomics, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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Lemon-shaped halo archaeal virus His1 with uniform tail but variable capsid structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:2449-54. [PMID: 25675521 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1425008112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lemon-shaped viruses are common in nature but so far have been observed to infect only archaea. Due to their unusual shape, the structures of these viruses are challenging to study and therefore poorly characterized. Here, we have studied haloarchaeal virus His1 using cryo-electron tomography as well as biochemical dissociation. The virions have different sizes, but prove to be extremely stable under various biochemical treatments. Subtomogram averaging of the computationally extracted virions resolved a tail-like structure with a central tail hub density and six tail spikes. Inside the tail there are two cavities and a plug density that separates the tail hub from the interior genome. His1 most likely uses the tail spikes to anchor to host cells and the tail hub to eject the genome, analogous to classic tailed bacteriophages. Upon biochemical treatment that releases the genome, the lemon-shaped virion transforms into an empty tube. Such a dramatic transformation demonstrates that the capsid proteins are capable of undergoing substantial quaternary structural changes, which may occur at different stages of the virus life cycle.
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Atanasova NS, Senčilo A, Pietilä MK, Roine E, Oksanen HM, Bamford DH. Comparison of lipid-containing bacterial and archaeal viruses. Adv Virus Res 2015; 92:1-61. [PMID: 25701885 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aivir.2014.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Lipid-containing bacteriophages were discovered late and considered to be rare. After further phage isolations and the establishment of the domain Archaea, several new prokaryotic viruses with lipids were observed. Consequently, the presence of lipids in prokaryotic viruses is reasonably common. The wealth of information about how prokaryotic viruses use their lipids comes from a few well-studied model viruses (PM2, PRD1, and ϕ6). These bacteriophages derive their lipid membranes selectively from the host during the virion assembly process which, in the case of PM2 and PRD1, culminates in the formation of protein capsid with an inner membrane, and for ϕ6 an outer envelope. Several inner membrane-containing viruses have been described for archaea, and their lipid acquisition models are reminiscent to those of PM2 and PRD1. Unselective acquisition of lipids has been observed for bacterial mycoplasmaviruses and archaeal pleolipoviruses, which resemble each other by size, morphology, and life style. In addition to these shared morphotypes of bacterial and archaeal viruses, archaea are infected by viruses with unique morphotypes, such as lemon-shaped, helical, and globular ones. It appears that structurally related viruses may or may not have a lipid component in the virion, suggesting that the significance of viral lipids might be to provide viruses extended means to interact with the host cell.
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- Nina S Atanasova
- Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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The Archaea-and their viruses-remain the most enigmatic of life's three domains. Once thought to inhabit only extreme environments, archaea are now known to inhabit diverse environments. Even though the first archaeal virus was described over 40 years ago, only 117 archaeal viruses have been discovered to date. Despite this small number, these viruses have painted a portrait of enormous morphological and genetic diversity. For example, research centered around the various steps of the archaeal virus life cycle has led to the discovery of unique mechanisms employed by archaeal viruses during replication, maturation, and virion release. In many instances, archaeal virus proteins display very low levels of sequence homology to other proteins listed in the public database, and therefore, structural characterization of these proteins has played an integral role in functional assignment. These structural studies have not only provided insights into structure-function relationships but have also identified links between viruses across all three domains of life.
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- Nikki Dellas
- Thermal Biology Institute and Departments of.,Plant Sciences and
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- Thermal Biology Institute and Departments of.,Plant Sciences and
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- Thermal Biology Institute and Departments of.,Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717;
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- Thermal Biology Institute and Departments of.,Plant Sciences and
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This review presents a personal account of research on archaeal viruses and describes many new viral species and families, demonstrating that viruses of Archaea constitute a distinctive part of the virosphere and display morphotypes that are not associated with the other two domains of life, Bacteria and Eukarya. I focus primarily on viruses that infect hyperthermophilic members of the phylum Crenarchaeota. These viruses' distinctiveness extends from their morphotypes to their genome sequences and the structures of the proteins they encode. Moreover, the mechanisms underlying the interactions of these viruses with their hosts also have unique features. Studies of archaeal viruses provide new perspectives concerning the nature, diversity, and evolution of virus-host interactions. Considering these studies, I associate the distinctions between bacterial and archaeal viruses with the fundamental differences in the envelope compositions of their host cells.
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Bize A, Sezonov G, Prangishvili D. [Enigmatic archaeal viruses]. Biol Aujourdhui 2013; 207:169-79. [PMID: 24330970 DOI: 10.1051/jbio/2013015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Viruses infecting microorganisms of the third domain of life, Archaea, are still poorly characterized: to date, only about fifty of these viruses have been isolated. Their hosts are hyperthermophilic, acidothermophilic, and extreme halophilic or methanogenic archaea. Their morphotypes are highly diverse and their gene content is very specific. Some of these viruses have developed extraordinary mechanisms to open the cell wall thanks to the formation of exceptional pyramidal nanostructures. The still limited knowledge about the biology of archaeoviruses should develop rapidly in the coming years.
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France - UMR 7138 Systématique, Adaptation, Évolution, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 7 quai Saint Bernard, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
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Erdmann S, Chen B, Huang X, Deng L, Liu C, Shah SA, Le Moine Bauer S, Sobrino CL, Wang H, Wei Y, She Q, Garrett RA, Huang L, Lin L. A novel single-tailed fusiform Sulfolobus virus STSV2 infecting model Sulfolobus species. Extremophiles 2013; 18:51-60. [PMID: 24163004 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-013-0591-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Accepted: 10/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A newly isolated single-tailed fusiform virus, Sulfolobus tengchongensis spindle-shaped virus STSV2, from Hamazui, China, is characterised. It contains a double-stranded modified DNA genome of 76,107 bp and is enveloped by a lipid membrane structure. Virions exhibit a single coat protein that forms oligomers when isolated. STSV2 is related to the single-tailed fusiform virus STSV1 and, more distantly, to the two-tailed bicaudavirus ATV. The virus can be stably cultured over long periods in laboratory strains of Sulfolobus and no evidence was found for cell lysis under different stress conditions. Therefore, it constitutes an excellent model virus for archaeal virus-host studies.
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- Susanne Erdmann
- Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Biological and Engineering, Cenggong Campus, Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST), Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China
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Structure and function of AvtR, a novel transcriptional regulator from a hyperthermophilic archaeal lipothrixvirus. J Virol 2012; 87:124-36. [PMID: 23055559 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01306-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The structural and functional analysis of the protein AvtR encoded by Acidianus filamentous virus 6 (AFV6), which infects the archaeal genus Acidianus, revealed its unusual structure and involvement in transcriptional regulation of several viral genes. The crystal structure of AvtR (100 amino acids) at 2.6-Å resolution shows that it is constituted of a repeated ribbon-helix-helix (RHH) motif, which is found in a large family of bacterial transcriptional regulators. The known RHH proteins form dimers that interact with DNA using their ribbon to create a central β-sheet. The repeated RHH motifs of AvtR superpose well on such dimers, but its central sheet contains an extra strand, suggesting either conformational changes or a different mode of DNA binding. Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) experiments combined with systematic mutational and computational analysis of the predicted site revealed 8 potential AvtR targets in the AFV6 genome. Two of these targets were studied in detail, and the complex role of AvtR in the transcriptional regulation of viral genes was established. Repressing transcription from its own gene, gp29, AvtR can also act as an activator of another gene, gp30. Its binding sites are distant from both genes' TATA boxes, and the mechanism of AvtR-dependent regulation appears to include protein oligomerization starting from the protein's initial binding sites. Many RHH transcriptional regulators of archaeal viruses could share this regulatory mechanism.
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Peng X, Garrett RA, She Q. Archaeal viruses--novel, diverse and enigmatic. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 2012; 55:422-33. [PMID: 22645086 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-012-4325-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/15/2012] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Recent research has revealed a remarkable diversity of viruses in archaeal-rich environments where spindles, spheres, filaments and rods are common, together with other exceptional morphotypes never recorded previously. Moreover, their double-stranded DNA genomes carry very few genes exhibiting homology to those of bacterial and eukaryal viruses. Studies on viral life cycles are still at a preliminary stage but important insights are being gained especially from microarray analyses of viral transcripts for a few model virus-host systems. Recently, evidence has been presented for some exceptional archaeal-specific mechanisms for extra-cellular morphological development of virions and for their cellular extrusion. Here we summarise some of the recent developments in this rapidly developing and exciting research area.
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- Xu Peng
- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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Sencilo A, Paulin L, Kellner S, Helm M, Roine E. Related haloarchaeal pleomorphic viruses contain different genome types. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:5523-34. [PMID: 22396526 PMCID: PMC3384331 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Archaeal viruses have been the subject of recent interest due to the diversity discovered in their virion architectures. Recently, a new group of haloarchaeal pleomorphic viruses has been discovered. It is distinctive in terms of the virion morphology and different genome types (ssDNA/dsDNA) harboured by rather closely related representatives. To date there are seven isolated viruses belonging to this group. Most of these share a cluster of five conserved genes, two of which encode major structural proteins. Putative proviruses and proviral remnants containing homologues of the conserved gene cluster were also identified suggesting a long-standing relationship of these viruses with their hosts. Comparative genomic analysis revealed three different ways of the genome organization, which possibly reflect different replication strategies employed by these viruses. The dsDNA genomes of two of these viruses were shown to contain single-strand interruptions. Further studies on one of the genomes suggested that the interruptions are located along the genome in a sequence-specific manner and exhibit polarity in distribution.
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- Ana Sencilo
- Department of Biosciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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A new proposed taxon for double-stranded DNA viruses, the order “Ligamenvirales”. Arch Virol 2012; 157:791-5. [DOI: 10.1007/s00705-012-1229-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2011] [Accepted: 12/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Krupovic M, Prangishvili D, Hendrix RW, Bamford DH. Genomics of bacterial and archaeal viruses: dynamics within the prokaryotic virosphere. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2011; 75:610-35. [PMID: 22126996 PMCID: PMC3232739 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00011-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Prokaryotes, bacteria and archaea, are the most abundant cellular organisms among those sharing the planet Earth with human beings (among others). However, numerous ecological studies have revealed that it is actually prokaryotic viruses that predominate on our planet and outnumber their hosts by at least an order of magnitude. An understanding of how this viral domain is organized and what are the mechanisms governing its evolution is therefore of great interest and importance. The vast majority of characterized prokaryotic viruses belong to the order Caudovirales, double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) bacteriophages with tails. Consequently, these viruses have been studied (and reviewed) extensively from both genomic and functional perspectives. However, albeit numerous, tailed phages represent only a minor fraction of the prokaryotic virus diversity. Therefore, the knowledge which has been generated for this viral system does not offer a comprehensive view of the prokaryotic virosphere. In this review, we discuss all families of bacterial and archaeal viruses that contain more than one characterized member and for which evolutionary conclusions can be attempted by use of comparative genomic analysis. We focus on the molecular mechanisms of their genome evolution as well as on the relationships between different viral groups and plasmids. It becomes clear that evolutionary mechanisms shaping the genomes of prokaryotic viruses vary between different families and depend on the type of the nucleic acid, characteristics of the virion structure, as well as the mode of the life cycle. We also point out that horizontal gene transfer is not equally prevalent in different virus families and is not uniformly unrestricted for diverse viral functions.
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- Mart Krupovic
- Institut Pasteur, Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Département de Microbiologie, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75015 Paris, France.
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Gao Y, Luo L. Genome-based phylogeny of dsDNA viruses by a novel alignment-free method. Gene 2011; 492:309-14. [PMID: 22100880 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2011.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2011] [Revised: 09/19/2011] [Accepted: 11/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Sequence alignment is not directly applicable to whole genome phylogeny since several events such as rearrangements make full length alignments impossible. Here, a novel alignment-free method derived from the standpoint of information theory is proposed and used to construct the whole-genome phylogeny for a population of viruses from 13 viral families comprising 218 dsDNA viruses. The method is based on information correlation (IC) and partial information correlation (PIC). We observe that (i) the IC-PIC tree segregates the population into clades, the membership of each is remarkably consistent with biologist's systematics only with little exceptions; (ii) the IC-PIC tree reveals potential evolutionary relationships among some viral families; and (iii) the IC-PIC tree predicts the taxonomic positions of certain "unclassified" viruses. Our approach provides a new way for recovering the phylogeny of viruses, and has practical applications in developing alignment-free methods for sequence classification.
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- Yang Gao
- Laboratory of Theoretical Biophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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Since their discovery in the early 1980s, viruses that infect the third domain of life, the Archaea, have captivated our attention because of their virions' unusual morphologies and proteins, which lack homologues in extant databases. Moreover, the life cycles of these viruses have unusual features, as revealed by the recent discovery of a novel virus egress mechanism that involves the formation of specific pyramidal structures on the host cell surface. The available data elucidate the particular nature of the archaeal virosphere and shed light on questions concerning the origin and evolution of viruses and cells. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge of archeoviruses, their interaction with hosts and plasmids and their role in the evolution of life.
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- Mery Pina
- Institut Pasteur, Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles Unit, Paris, France
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Garrett RA, Prangishvili D, Shah SA, Reuter M, Stetter KO, Peng X. Metagenomic analyses of novel viruses and plasmids from a cultured environmental sample of hyperthermophilic neutrophiles. Environ Microbiol 2011; 12:2918-30. [PMID: 20545752 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02266.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Two novel viral genomes and four plasmids were assembled from an environmental sample collected from a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, USA, and maintained anaerobically in a bioreactor at 85°C and pH 6. The double-stranded DNA viral genomes are linear (22.7 kb) and circular (17.7 kb), and derive apparently from archaeal viruses HAV1 and HAV2. Genomic DNA was obtained from samples enriched in filamentous and tadpole-shaped virus-like particles respectively. They yielded few significant matches in public sequence databases reinforcing, further, the wide diversity of archaeal viruses. Several variants of HAV1 exhibit major genomic alterations, presumed to arise from viral adaptation to different hosts. They include insertions up to 350 bp, deletions up to 1.5 kb, and genes with extensively altered sequences. Some result from recombination events occurring at low complexity direct repeats distributed along the genome. In addition, a 33.8 kb archaeal plasmid pHA1 was characterized, encoding a possible conjugative apparatus, as well as three cryptic plasmids of thermophilic bacterial origin, pHB1 of 2.1 kb and two closely related variants pHB2a and pHB2b, of 5.2 and 4.8 kb respectively. Strategies are considered for assembling genomes of smaller genetic elements from complex environmental samples, and for establishing possible host identities on the basis of sequence similarity to host CRISPR immune systems.
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- Roger A Garrett
- Archaea Centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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Chlorella viruses encode most, if not all, of the machinery to glycosylate their glycoproteins independent of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2010; 1800:152-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2009.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2009] [Revised: 07/15/2009] [Accepted: 07/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Goulet A, Blangy S, Redder P, Prangishvili D, Felisberto-Rodrigues C, Forterre P, Campanacci V, Cambillau C. Acidianus filamentous virus 1 coat proteins display a helical fold spanning the filamentous archaeal viruses lineage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:21155-60. [PMID: 19934032 PMCID: PMC2795548 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909893106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Acidianus filamentous virus 1 (AFV1), a member of the Lipothrixviridae family, infects the hyperthermophilic, acidophilic crenarchaeaon Acidianus hospitalis. The virion, covered with a lipidic outer shell, is 9,100-A long and contains a 20.8-kb linear dsDNA genome. We have identified the two major coat proteins of the virion (MCPs; 132 and 140 amino acids). They bind DNA and form filaments when incubated with linear dsDNA. A C-terminal domain is identified in their crystal structure with a four-helix-bundle fold. In the topological model of the virion filament core, the genomic dsDNA superhelix wraps around the AFV1-132 basic protein, and the AFV1-140 basic N terminus binds genomic DNA, while its lipophilic C-terminal domain is imbedded in the lipidic outer shell. The four-helix bundle fold of the MCPs from AFV1 is identical to that of the coat protein (CP) of Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus (SIRV), a member of the Rudiviridae family. Despite low sequence identity between these proteins, their high degree of structural similarity suggests that they could have derived from a common ancestor and could thus define an yet undescribed viral lineage.
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- Adeline Goulet
- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6098, Case 932, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6098, Case 932, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France; and
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France; and
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- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6098, Case 932, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, 28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France; and
- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud and Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8621, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6098, Case 932, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Universités Aix-Marseille I & II, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6098, Case 932, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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Redder P, Peng X, Brügger K, Shah SA, Roesch F, Greve B, She Q, Schleper C, Forterre P, Garrett RA, Prangishvili D. Four newly isolated fuselloviruses from extreme geothermal environments reveal unusual morphologies and a possible interviral recombination mechanism. Environ Microbiol 2009; 11:2849-62. [PMID: 19638177 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02009.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Spindle-shaped virus-like particles are abundant in extreme geothermal environments, from which five spindle-shaped viral species have been isolated to date. They infect members of the hyperthermophilic archaeal genus Sulfolobus, and constitute the Fuselloviridae, a family of double-stranded DNA viruses. Here we present four new members of this family, all from terrestrial acidic hot springs. Two of the new viruses exhibit a novel morphotype for their proposed attachment structures, and specific features of their genome sequences strongly suggest the identity of the host-attachment protein. All fuselloviral genomes are highly conserved at the nucleotide level, although the regions of conservation differ between virus-pairs, consistent with a high frequency of homologous recombination having occurred between them. We propose a fuselloviral specific mechanism for interviral recombination, and show that the spacers of the Sulfolobus CRISPR antiviral system are not biased to the highly similar regions of the fusellovirus genomes.
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- Peter Redder
- Unite de Biologie Moleculaire du Gene chez les Extremophiles, Institut Pasteur, 25, rue du Dr Roux, F-75015 Paris, France.
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Lawrence CM, Menon S, Eilers BJ, Bothner B, Khayat R, Douglas T, Young MJ. Structural and functional studies of archaeal viruses. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:12599-603. [PMID: 19158076 PMCID: PMC2675988 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.r800078200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Viruses populate virtually every ecosystem on the planet, including the extreme acidic, thermal, and saline environments where archaeal organisms can dominate. For example, recent studies have identified crenarchaeal viruses in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park and other high temperature environments worldwide. These viruses are often morphologically and genetically unique, with genomes that show little similarity to genes of known function, complicating efforts to understand their viral life cycles. Here, we review progress in understanding these fascinating viruses at the molecular level and the evolutionary insights coming from these studies.
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- C Martin Lawrence
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
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Stygiolobus rod-shaped virus and the interplay of crenarchaeal rudiviruses with the CRISPR antiviral system. J Bacteriol 2008; 190:6837-45. [PMID: 18723627 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00795-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A newly characterized archaeal rudivirus Stygiolobus rod-shaped virus (SRV), which infects a hyperthermophilic Stygiolobus species, was isolated from a hot spring in the Azores, Portugal. Its virions are rod-shaped, 702 (+/- 50) by 22 (+/- 3) nm in size, and nonenveloped and carry three tail fibers at each terminus. The linear double-stranded DNA genome contains 28,096 bp and an inverted terminal repeat of 1,030 bp. The SRV shows morphological and genomic similarities to the other characterized rudiviruses Sulfolobus rod-shaped virus 1 (SIRV1), SIRV2, and Acidianus rod-shaped virus 1, isolated from hot acidic springs of Iceland and Italy. The single major rudiviral structural protein is shown to generate long tubular structures in vitro of similar dimensions to those of the virion, and we estimate that the virion constitutes a single, superhelical, double-stranded DNA embedded into such a protein structure. Three additional minor conserved structural proteins are also identified. Ubiquitous rudiviral proteins with assigned functions include glycosyl transferases and a S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase, as well as a Holliday junction resolvase, a transcriptionally coupled helicase and nuclease implicated in DNA replication. Analysis of matches between known crenarchaeal chromosomal CRISPR spacer sequences, implicated in a viral defense system, and rudiviral genomes revealed that about 10% of the 3,042 unique acidothermophile spacers yield significant matches to rudiviral genomes, with a bias to highly conserved protein genes, consistent with the widespread presence of rudiviruses in hot acidophilic environments. We propose that the 12-bp indels which are commonly found in conserved rudiviral protein genes may be generated as a reaction to the presence of the host CRISPR defense system.
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Bize A, Peng X, Prokofeva M, Maclellan K, Lucas S, Forterre P, Garrett RA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Prangishvili D. Viruses in acidic geothermal environments of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Res Microbiol 2008; 159:358-66. [PMID: 18565736 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2008] [Revised: 04/16/2008] [Accepted: 04/16/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Screening for viruses in samples taken from acidic hot springs of Kamchatka (Russia) revealed a collection of morphotypes, including linear, spherical and complex fusiform shapes, which show partial similarity to those found in acidic geothermal environments in other geographical locations. One of the viruses, Acidianus filamentous virus 9, AFV9, was isolated and its structure and genome were studied in detail.
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- Ariane Bize
- Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles Unit, Institut Pasteur, rue du Dr. Roux 25, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
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