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... The improvement of disease resistance is vital in aquaculture as diseases are one of the serious threats to successful aquaculture. Understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying disease resistance is important in improving resistance against diseases. The pIgR (polymeric immunoglobulin receptor) gene plays an important role in the mucosal immunity of fish. However, not much is known about its r ...
... Little cherry virus 2 (LChV-2, genus Ampelovirus) is considered to be the main causal agent of the economically damaging little cherry disease, which can only be controlled by removal of infected trees. The widespread viral disease of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) is affecting the survival of long-standing orchards in North America and Europe, hence the dire need for an early and accurate diagnos ...
... BACKGROUND: Persistent HPV16 infection is the leading risk factor for developing cervical cancer. Anti-L1 antibodies against HPV16 produced in HPV16 infections play diverse roles in the clearance of virus infection and prevention of persistence. It has been implicated that the cervicovaginal squamous epithelial cells actually express TRIM21 and that some HPV16 particles could escape leaky endosoma ...
... Human rhinoviruses are known to cause mild upper respiratory tract infections. They are also now known to cause severe laryngotracheitis and play an important role in triggering asthma attacks. An anti-viral drug against rhinoviruses viruses would be helpful. Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) might be such a candidate with proven activity against several RNA viruses in vitro and in vivo. ASA was initiall ...
... Hepatitis E virus (HEV), a zoonotic virus, infects many animal species, including humans. Capsid proteins of human, swine, rabbit and avian HEVs share 48 %–100 % amino acid identity. In the present study, antigenic cross-reactivity among human, swine, rabbit and avian HEV capsid proteins were analyzed in detail using indirect and blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). The C-terminal ...
Alessandra J. Boari; Gabriela A. Cordovil; Caterynne M. Kauffmann; Brenda E. S. Gavinho; Ayane F. F. Quadros; Késsia F. C. Pantoja; Rui A. Gomes Junior; Francisco R. Freire Filho; Raimundo P. Oliveira; Elliot W. Kitajima
... The manteiguinha type cowpea has extra-small grains with a creamy coloration and constitutes an important component for the culinary in the state of Pará, Brazil, with potential for acceptance in the whole country. A high incidence of plants presenting symptoms of viral infection, such as mosaic, leaf rolling, leaf epinasty, and vein necrosis, was observed in a genetic improvement assay of this co ...
... Saffron latent virus (SaLV) is a species of the genus Potyvirus. The virus has only been reported from saffron (Crocus sativus L.), which is mainly cultivated in Iran, where some other species of Crocus are cultivated as ornamental plants/flowers. The sequence and organization of the SaLV genome has been determined, but there is a lack of information about its natural and herbaceous hosts as well ...
Tobacco mosaic virus; chemical bonding; coat proteins; site-directed mutagenesis; transmission electron microscopy
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... Although there have been many advances in synthesizing nanoparticles, their assembly into deterministic and controllable patterns remains a major challenge. Biological systems operate at the nanoscale, building structural components with great chemical specificity that enable the processes of life. By adapting them to our needs, it is possible to utilize well-defined and well-controlled scaffolds ...
... In eukaryotes, the endomembrane system allows for spatiotemporal compartmentation of complicated cellular processes. The plant endomembrane system consists of the endoplasmic reticulum, the Golgi apparatus, the trans‐Golgi network, the multivesicular body and the vacuole. Anterograde traffic from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus is mediated by coat protein complex II (COPII) vesicl ...
... Herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) exploits several host factors to enhance its replication and release from infected cells. It induces the production of host enzyme heparanase (HPSE) to aid in egress. While the mechanism by which HPSE assists in viral release is well-characterized, other host factors that are recruited along with HPSE for viral release are less well understood. In this study, we ...
... Sweet potato is a global root crop, with a worldwide production of 91.5 million metric tons in 2019 (FAO 2019). However, virus diseases cause significant yield losses and quality decline in sweet potato. Up to now, over 30 different viruses have been identified in sweet potato (Clark et al. 2012). Expanding knowledge of the host range of sweet potato viruses will provide a benefit for the understa ...
... Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a major cause of hemorrhagic diarrhea and mortality in puppies worldwide. There are 2 types of Parvovirus which affects canines: Canine parvovirus 2 (CPV-2) and Canine parvovirus 1 (CPV-1) or the Minute Virus of Canine (MVC). CPV-2 originated from Feline panleukopenia virus and has undergone genetic variation to give rise to its three variants (CPV-2a, CPV-2b and CPV-2c) ...
... Circoviruses are the smallest single-stranded DNA viruses that infect mammalian species, avian species, fish, and insects. The infections of circoviruses are known to be associated with a series of fatal diseases, but the protease of circovirus still remains unknown. In this research, we identified viral capsid protein (Cap) as the protease of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), to our knowledge the ...
... Seneca Valley virus (SVV) is a newly discovered picornavirus in the Senecavirus genus. SVV-001 strain has shown promise as an oncolytic virus against tumors with neuroendocrine features. There is a need to use a structure-based approach to develop virus-like particles capable to mimicking the architecture of naturally occurring empty capsids that can be used as vaccines or as carriers for targeted ...
... Bacteria of the species Aeromonas veronii are generally ubiquitous in different aquatic environments and are capable of causing a variety of diseases in aquatic animals. In this work, the phage isolate pAEv1812, which is lytic to A. veronii strain 1810, was characterized and sequenced. Morphological analysis revealed that pAEv1812 has a symmetrical head and a long non-contractile tail. A one-step ...
... Avian nephritis virus infections of chicken flocks cause enteric and kidney disease, uneven growth, and runting stunting syndrome, leading to economic losses in the poultry industry. In this study, one ANV strain, designated as AH202017, was isolated from a diseased broiler flock in Anhui province, China, in 2020. Virus production in LMH cell culture was confirmed by real-time RT–PCR and immunoflu ...
Chaetoceros; DNA; DNA viruses; Phaeodactylum tricornutum; coat proteins; gene expression regulation; genes; genomics; promoter regions
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... Promoters are key elements for the regulation of gene expression. Recently, we investigated the activity of promoters derived from marine diatom-infecting viruses (DIVs) in marine diatoms. Previously, we focused on potential promoter regions of the replication-associated protein gene and the capsid protein gene of the DIVs. In addition to these genes, two genes of unknown function (VP1 and VP4 gen ...
... Botryosphaeria dothidea is, globally, one of the most economically important phytopathogenic fungi worldwide, causing the canker and dieback of fruit trees. An increasing number of viruses infecting B. dothidea have lately been reported, several of which could confer hypovirulence. In this study, isolated from strain ZM170285-1 of B. dothidea, a novel double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) mycovirus, tentati ...
... Capsid assembly pathways are strongly conserved in the complex dsDNA viruses, where major capsid proteins (MCP) self-assemble into icosahedral procapsid shells, chaperoned by a scaffolding protein. Without a scaffold, the capsid proteins aggregate and form aberrant structures. This, coupled with the rapid co-polymerization of MCP and scaffolding proteins, has thwarted characterization of the earli ...
... A novel dsRNA mycovirus was found in Fusarium solani (F. solani) strain NW-FVA 2572. The fungus was originally isolated from a root, associated with stem collar necrosis of Fraxinus excelsior L. The viral genome is composed of four segments, which range from around 3.5 kbp to 1.7 kbp (RNA 1: 3522 bp; RNA 2: 2633 bp; RNA 3: 2403 bp; RNA 4: 1721 bp). The segments share a conserved and capped 5′-term ...