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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 88, 期 11, 页码 6069-6075出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03199-13
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- Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences [2012/37B/26/BRNS/1062]
- IIT-Bombay seed grant [11IRCCG004]
- University Grants Commission, India
- Scientific Council of Industrial Research (CSIR), India
- IIT-Bombay
Genome packaging is a critical step in the virion assembly process. The putative ATP-driven genome packaging motor of Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) and other nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDVs) is a distant ortholog of prokaryotic chromosome segregation motors, such as FtsK and HerA, rather than other viral packaging motors, such as large terminase. Intriguingly, APMV also encodes other components, i.e., three putative serine recombinases and a putative type II topoisomerase, all of which are essential for chromosome segregation in prokaryotes. Based on our analyses of these components and taking the limited available literature into account, here we propose for the first time a model for genome segregation and packaging in APMV that can possibly be extended to NCLDV subfamilies, except perhaps Poxviridae and Ascoviridae. This model might represent a unique variation of the prokaryotic system acquired and contrived by the large DNA viruses of eukaryotes. It is also consistent with previous observations that unicellular eukaryotes, such as amoebae, are melting pots for the advent of chimeric organisms with novel mechanisms.
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