کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
3424783 1227246 2011 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Fossil record of an archaeal HK97-like provirus
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری ایمنی شناسی و میکروب شناسی ویروس شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Fossil record of an archaeal HK97-like provirus
چکیده انگلیسی

One of the outstanding questions in biology today is the origin of viruses. We have discovered a protein in the hyperthermophile Sulfolobus solfataricus while following proteome regulation during viral infection that led to the discovery of a fossil provirus. Characterization of the wild type and recombinant protein revealed that it assembled into virus-like particles with a diameter of ~ 32 nm. Sequence and structural analyses showed that the likely proviral capsid protein, Sso2749, is homologous to a protein from Pyrococcus furiosus that forms virus-like particles using the HK-97 major capsid protein fold. The SsP2-provirus appears mosaic and contains proteins with similarity to, among others, eukaryotic herpesviruses and tailed dsDNA bacteriophage families, reinforcing the hypothesis of a common ancestral gene pool across all three domains of life. This is the first description of the HK-97 fold in a crenarchaeal virus and the first direct genomic connection of linocin-like protein cages to a virus.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Virology - Volume 417, Issue 2, 1 September 2011, Pages 362–368
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