Vestergaard, Gisle and Shah, Shiraz A. and Bize, Ariane and Reitberger, Werner and Reuter, Monika and Phan, Hien and Briegel, Ariane and Rachel, Reinhard and Garrett, Roger A. and Prangishvili, David (2008) Stygiolobus rod-shaped virus and the interplay of crenarchaeal rudiviruses with the CRISPR antiviral system. JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, 190 (20). pp. 6837-6845. ISSN 0021-9193, 1098-5530
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A newly characterized archaeal rudivirus Stygiolobus rod-shaped virus (SRV), which infects a hyperthermophilic Stygiolobus species, was isolated from a hot spring in the Azores, Portugal. Its virions are rod-shaped, 702 (+/- 50) by 22 (+/- 3) nm in size, and nonenveloped and carry three tail fibers at each terminus. The linear double-stranded DNA genome contains 28,096 bp and an inverted terminal repeat of 1,030 bp. The SRV shows morphological and genomic similarities to the other characterized rudiviruses Sulfolobus rod-shaped virus 1 (SIRV1), SIRV2, and Acidianus rod-shaped virus 1, isolated from hot acidic springs of Iceland and Italy. The single major rudiviral structural protein is shown to generate long tubular structures in vitro of similar dimensions to those of the virion, and we estimate that the virion constitutes a single, superhelical, double-stranded DNA embedded into such a protein structure. Three additional minor conserved structural proteins are also identified. Ubiquitous rudiviral proteins with assigned functions include glycosyl transferases and a S-adenosylmethionine- dependent methyltransferase, as well as a Holliday junction resolvase, a transcriptionally coupled helicase and nuclease implicated in DNA replication. Analysis of matches between known crenarchaeal chromosomal CRISPR spacer sequences, implicated in a viral defense system, and rudiviral genomes revealed that about 10% of the 3,042 unique acidothermophile spacers yield significant matches to rudiviral genomes, with a bias to highly conserved protein genes, consistent with the widespread presence of rudiviruses in hot acidophilic environments. We propose that the 12-bp indels which are commonly found in conserved rudiviral protein genes may be generated as a reaction to the presence of the host CRISPR defense system.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ARCHAEAL LIPOTHRIXVIRUS; GENOME ORGANIZATION; EUKARYAL VIRUSES; GENUS ACIDIANUS; SIRV1; SEQUENCES; HOST; TRANSCRIPTION; ENVIRONMENTS; SULFOLOBUS; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Biochemie, Genetik und Mikrobiologie > Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie (Archaeenzentrum) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2020 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2020 10:23 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/30223 |
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