Structure and physiology of giant DNA viruses.


Journal

Current opinion in virology
ISSN: 1879-6265
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Virol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101560941

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
08 2021
Historique:
received: 23 02 2021
revised: 27 04 2021
accepted: 29 04 2021
pubmed: 30 5 2021
medline: 30 11 2021
entrez: 29 5 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Although giant viruses have existed for millennia and possibly exerted great evolutionary influence in their environment. Their presence has only been noticed by virologists recently with the discovery of Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus in 2003. Its virion with a diameter of 500 nm and its genome larger than 1 Mpb shattered preconceived standards of what a virus is and triggered world-wide prospection studies. Thanks to these investigations many giant virus families were discovered, each with its own morphological peculiarities and genomes ranging from 0.4 to 2.5 Mpb that possibly encode more than 400 viral proteins. This review aims to present the morphological diversity, the different aspects observed in host-virus interactions during replication, as well as the techniques utilized during their investigation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34051592
pii: S1879-6257(21)00046-8
doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2021.04.012
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Viral Proteins 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

58-67

Subventions

Organisme : NIGMS NIH HHS
ID : R01 GM110185
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Auteurs

Juliana Dos Santos Oliveira (J)

Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Mcirobiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21590-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Anastasiya A Lavell (AA)

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.

Victor Alejandro Essus (VA)

Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Mcirobiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21590-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Getúlio Souza (G)

Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Mcirobiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21590-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Gabriel Henrique Pereira Nunes (GHP)

Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Mcirobiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21590-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Eduarda Benício (E)

Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Mcirobiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21590-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Allan Jefferson Guimarães (AJ)

Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Instituto Biomédico, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil.

Kristin N Parent (KN)

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Electronic address: kparent@msu.edu.

Juliana R Cortines (JR)

Departamento de Virologia, Instituto de Mcirobiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21590-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: cortines@micro.ufrj.br.

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