Particle Morphology of Medusavirus Inside and Outside the Cells Reveals a New Maturation Process of Giant Viruses-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Particle Morphology of Medusavirus Inside and Outside the Cells Reveals a New Maturation Process of Giant Viruses

Published:2022-04-13 Issue:7 Volume:96 Page:
ISSN:0022-538X
Container-title:Journal of Virology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Virol

Author:

Watanabe Ryoto¹²³,Song Chihong¹²³,Kayama Yoko³⁴,Takemura Masaharu⁵^ORCID,Murata Kazuyoshi¹²³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

2. Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

3. National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

4. Terabase, Inc., Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

5. Institute of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

Giant viruses exhibit diverse morphologies and maturation processes. In this study, medusavirus showed four types of particle morphologies, both inside and outside the infected cells, when propagated in amoeba culture.

Funder

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development

MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/jvi.01853-21

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