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I am what I eat and I eat what I am: acquisition of bacterial genes by giant viruses.

Jonathan Filée¹, Patricia Siguier, Mick Chandler.

Abstract

Giant viruses are nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) that infect algae (phycodnaviruses) and amoebae (Mimivirus). We report an unexpected abundance in these giant viruses of islands of bacterial-type genes, including apparently intact prokaryotic mobile genetic elements, and hypothesize that NCLDV genomes undergo successive accretions of bacterial genes. The viruses could acquire bacterial genes within their bacteria-feeding eukaryotic hosts, and we suggest that such acquisition is driven by the intimate coupling of recombination and replication in NCLDVs.

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Year: 2006 PMID： 17109990 DOI： 10.1016/j.tig.2006.11.002

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN： 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639

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I am what I eat and I eat what I am: acquisition of bacterial genes by giant viruses.

1. Mimivirus collagen is modified by bifunctional lysyl hydroxylase and glycosyltransferase enzyme.

2. Distant Mimivirus relative with a larger genome highlights the fundamental features of Megaviridae.

3. Origin and evolution of eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses.

4. Giant virus with a remarkable complement of genes infects marine zooplankton.

5. Genome sequence of Ostreococcus tauri virus OtV-2 throws light on the role of picoeukaryote niche separation in the ocean.

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Review 7. Viruses manipulate the marine environment.

8. Horizontal gene transfer of an entire metabolic pathway between a eukaryotic alga and its DNA virus.

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Review 10. Potassium ion channels: could they have evolved from viruses?