Acanthamoeba
Genetic Diversity and Evolution | SpotlightCharacterization of Mollivirus kamchatka, the First Modern Representative of the Proposed Molliviridae Family of Giant VirusesVirology has long been viewed through the prism of human, cattle, or plant diseases, leading to a largely incomplete picture of the viral world. The serendipitous discovery of the first giant virus visible under a light microscope (i.e., >0.3 μm in diameter), mimivirus, opened a new era of environmental virology, now incorporating protozoan-infecting viruses. Planet-wide isolation studies and metagenome analyses have shown the...
Genetic Diversity and Evolution | SpotlightMedusavirus, a Novel Large DNA Virus Discovered from Hot Spring WaterWe have isolated a new nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (NCLDV) from hot spring water in Japan, named medusavirus. This new NCLDV is phylogenetically placed at the root of the eukaryotic clades based on the phylogenies of several key genes, including that encoding DNA polymerase, and its genome surprisingly encodes the full set of histone homologs. Furthermore, its laboratory host,...
- Genome Replication and Regulation of Viral Gene ExpressionThe Investigation of Promoter Sequences of Marseilleviruses Highlights a Remarkable Abundance of the AAATATTT Motif in Intergenic Regions
- Structure and AssemblyStructural Studies of the Sputnik Virophage
- Structure and Assembly | SpotlightThe First Virally Encoded Cytochrome P450
- Genetic Diversity and EvolutionVirus-Encoded Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases: Structural and Functional Characterization of Mimivirus TyrRS and MetRS
- Genetic Diversity and Evolution | SpotlightGene and Genome Duplication in Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus