Published in Frontiers in Immunology
Global pandemics are most likely initiated via zoonotic transmission to humans in which respiratory viruses infect airways with relevance to mucosal systems. Out of the known pandemics, five were initiated by respiratory viruses including current ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Striking progress in vaccine development and therapeutics ...
Published in Frontiers in Genetics
Published in Microbiology Spectrum
Green seaweeds of the genus Ulva are considered a model system to study microbial interactions with the algal host. Remarkably little is known, however, about viral communities associated with green seaweeds, especially in relation to the health of the host. In this study, we characterized the viral communities associated with healthy and bleached ...
Marine macroalgae (seaweeds) are important primary producers and foundation species in coastal ecosystems around the world. Seaweeds currently contribute to an estimated 51% of the global mariculture production, with a long-term growth rate of 6% per year, and an estimated market value of more than US$11.3 billion. Viral infections could have a sub...
The yadokari/yadonushi nature is a recently discovered virus lifestyle; “yadokari” refers to the ability of capsidless positive-sense (+) RNA viruses (yadokariviruses) to utilize the capsids of phylogenetically distant double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses possibly as the replication site, while “yadonushi” refers to the ability of dsRNA viruses to p...
Published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Peer reviewed: True / Acknowledgements: The conference organizers thank all speakers, poster presenters, chairs and participants for creating a highly interactive scientific environment and making the meeting a success. The conference organisers acknowledge sponsorship from Promega Biotech Ibérica SL. We thank Milena Žarković, Ruben Rose, Christina...
Strukturo dolgih molekul RNA, med katere sodijo tudi genomi virusov RNA, je eksperimentalno še zmeraj težko določiti, zato so za njihovo preučevanje neizogibne računske napovedi struktur. Napovedni algoritmi so sicer točnejši za krajše RNA, vendar omogočajo določanje razlik v strukturi razvejenosti in prostorske velikosti tudi med raznovrstnimi dal...
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Hosts can carry many viruses in their bodies, but not all of them cause disease. We studied ants as a social host to determine both their overall viral repertoire and the subset of actively infecting viruses across natural populations of three subfamilies: the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile, Dolichoderinae), the invasive garden ant (Lasius negle...
Published in Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lipid phosphoinositides are master signaling molecules in eukaryotic cells and key markers of organelle identity. Because of these important roles, the kinases and phosphatases that generate phosphoinositides must be tightly regulated. Viruses can manipulate this regulation, with the Type III phosphatidylinositol 4-kinases (PI4KA and PI4KB) being h...
