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- Title
Chloroviruses Have a Sweet Tooth.
- Abstract
Chloroviruses are large double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses that infect certain isolates of chlorella-like green algae. They contain up to approximately 400 protein-encoding genes and 16 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. This review summarizes the unexpected finding that many of the chlorovirus genes encode proteins involved in manipulating carbohydrates. These include enzymes involved in making extracellular polysaccharides, such as hyaluronan and chitin, enzymes that make nucleotide sugars, such as GDP-L-fucose and GDP-D-rhamnose and enzymes involved in the synthesis of glycans attached to the virus major capsid proteins. This latter process differs from that of all other glycoprotein containing viruses that traditionally use the host endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi machinery to synthesize and transfer the glycans.
- Subjects
GREEN algae; DNA; NUCLEIC acids; ENDOPLASMIC reticulum; ORGANELLES
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2017, Vol 9, Issue 4, p88
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v9040088