TPV1, the first virus isolated from the hyperthermophilic genus Thermococcus.

Aurore Gorlas 1 Eugene V Koonin 2 Nadège Bienvenu 1 Daniel Prieur 1 Claire Geslin 1, *
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1 LM2E - Laboratoire de microbiologie des environnements extrêmophiles
2 NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
Abstract : We describe a novel virus, TPV1 (Thermococcus prieurii virus 1), which was discovered in a hyperthermophilic euryarchaeote isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected at a depth of 2700 m at the East Pacific Rise. TPV1 is the first virus isolated and characterized from the hyperthermophilic euryarchaeal genus Thermococcus. TPV1 particles have a lemon-shaped morphology (140 nm × 80 nm) similar to the structures previously reported for Fuselloviruses and for the unclassified virus-like particle PAV1 (Pyrococcus abyssi virus 1). The infection with TPV1 does not cause host lysis and viral replication can be induced by UV irradiation. TPV1 contains a double-stranded circular DNA of 21.5 kb, which is also present in high copy number in a free form in the host cell. The TPV1 genome encompasses 28 predicted genes; the protein sequences encoded in 16 of these genes show no significant similarity to proteins in public databases. Proteins predicted to be involved in genome replication were identified as well as transcriptional regulators. TPV1 encodes also a predicted integrase of the tyrosine recombinase family. The only two genes that are homologous between TPV1 and PAV1 are TPV1-22 and TPV1-23, which encode proteins containing a concanavalin A-like lectin/glucanase domain that might be involved in virus-host recognition.
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Environmental Microbiology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 14 (2), pp.503-16. 〈10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02662.x〉
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Aurore Gorlas, Eugene V Koonin, Nadège Bienvenu, Daniel Prieur, Claire Geslin. TPV1, the first virus isolated from the hyperthermophilic genus Thermococcus.. Environmental Microbiology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 14 (2), pp.503-16. 〈10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02662.x〉. 〈hal-00775875〉

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