TY - JOUR
T1 - Sequence and annotation of the 288-kb ATCV-1 virus that infects an endosymbiotic chlorella strain of the heliozoon Acanthocystis turfacea
AU - Fitzgerald, Lisa A.
AU - Graves, Michael V.
AU - Li, Xiao
AU - Hartigan, James
AU - Pfitzner, Artur J.P.
AU - Hoffart, Ella
AU - Van Etten, James L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank James Gurnon for preparing the DNA. This investigation was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant EF-0333197 (MG and JVE), by National Institutes of Health grant GM32441 (JVE), and by the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence program of the National Center for Research Resources Grant P20-RR15635 (JVE).
PY - 2007/6/5
Y1 - 2007/6/5
N2 - Acanthocystis turfacea chlorella virus (ATCV-1), a prospective member of the family Phycodnaviridae, genus Chlorovirus, infects a unicellular, eukaryotic, chlorella-like green alga, Chlorella SAG 3.83, that is a symbiont in the heliozoon A. turfacea. The 288,047-bp ATCV-1 genome is the first virus to be sequenced that infects Chlorella SAG 3.83. ATCV-1 contains 329 putative protein-encoding and 11 tRNA-encoding genes. The protein-encoding genes are almost evenly distributed on both strands and intergenic space is minimal. Thirty-four percent of the viral gene products resemble entries in the public databases, including some that are unexpected for a virus. For example, these unique gene products include ribonucleoside-triphosphate reductase, dTDP-d-glucose 4,6 dehydratase, potassium ion transporter, aquaglyceroporin, and mucin-desulfating sulfatase. Comparison of ATCV-1 protein-encoding genes with the prototype chlorella virus PBCV-1 indicates that about 80% of the ATCV-1 genes are present in PBCV-1.
AB - Acanthocystis turfacea chlorella virus (ATCV-1), a prospective member of the family Phycodnaviridae, genus Chlorovirus, infects a unicellular, eukaryotic, chlorella-like green alga, Chlorella SAG 3.83, that is a symbiont in the heliozoon A. turfacea. The 288,047-bp ATCV-1 genome is the first virus to be sequenced that infects Chlorella SAG 3.83. ATCV-1 contains 329 putative protein-encoding and 11 tRNA-encoding genes. The protein-encoding genes are almost evenly distributed on both strands and intergenic space is minimal. Thirty-four percent of the viral gene products resemble entries in the public databases, including some that are unexpected for a virus. For example, these unique gene products include ribonucleoside-triphosphate reductase, dTDP-d-glucose 4,6 dehydratase, potassium ion transporter, aquaglyceroporin, and mucin-desulfating sulfatase. Comparison of ATCV-1 protein-encoding genes with the prototype chlorella virus PBCV-1 indicates that about 80% of the ATCV-1 genes are present in PBCV-1.
KW - Acanthocystis turfacea
KW - Chlorella viruses
KW - Genome sequence
KW - Phycodnaviridae
KW - Virus ATCV-1
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U2 - 10.1016/j.virol.2006.12.028
DO - 10.1016/j.virol.2006.12.028
M3 - Article
C2 - 17276475
AN - SCOPUS:34247554844
VL - 362
SP - 350
EP - 361
JO - Virology
JF - Virology
SN - 0042-6822
IS - 2
ER -