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Boratto PV, Arantes TS, Silva LC, et al. Niemeyer Virus: A New Mimivirus Group A Isolate Harboring a Set of Duplicated Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Genes. Front Microbiol. 2015;6:1256doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01256.
Boratto, P. V., Arantes, T. S., Silva, L. C., Assis, F. L., Kroon, E. G., La Scola, B., & Abrahão, J. S. (2015). Niemeyer Virus: A New Mimivirus Group A Isolate Harboring a Set of Duplicated Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Genes. Frontiers in microbiology, 61256. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01256
Boratto, Paulo V M, et al. "Niemeyer Virus: A New Mimivirus Group A Isolate Harboring a Set of Duplicated Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Genes." Frontiers in microbiology vol. 6 (2015): 1256. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01256
Boratto PV, Arantes TS, Silva LC, Assis FL, Kroon EG, La Scola B, Abrahão JS. Niemeyer Virus: A New Mimivirus Group A Isolate Harboring a Set of Duplicated Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Genes. Front Microbiol. 2015 Nov 10;6:1256. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01256. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26635738; PMCID: PMC4639698.
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Front Microbiol. 2015 Nov 10;6:1256. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01256. eCollection 2015.

Niemeyer Virus: A New Mimivirus Group A Isolate Harboring a Set of Duplicated Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Genes.

Frontiers in microbiology

Paulo V M Boratto, Thalita S Arantes, Lorena C F Silva, Felipe L Assis, Erna G Kroon, Bernard La Scola, Jônatas S Abrahão

Affiliations

  1. Laboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  2. URMITE CNRS UMR 6236 - IRD 3R198, Aix Marseille Université Marseille, France.

PMID: 26635738 PMCID: PMC4639698 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01256

Abstract

It is well recognized that gene duplication/acquisition is a key factor for molecular evolution, being directly related to the emergence of new genetic variants. The importance of such phenomena can also be expanded to the viral world, with impacts on viral fitness and environmental adaptations. In this work we describe the isolation and characterization of Niemeyer virus, a new mimivirus isolate obtained from water samples of an urban lake in Brazil. Genomic data showed that Niemeyer harbors duplicated copies of three of its four aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase genes (cysteinyl, methionyl, and tyrosyl RS). Gene expression analysis showed that such duplications allowed significantly increased expression of methionyl and tyrosyl aaRS mRNA by Niemeyer in comparison to APMV. Remarkably, phylogenetic data revealed that Niemeyer duplicated gene pairs are different, each one clustering with a different group of mimivirus strains. Taken together, our results raise new questions about the origins and selective pressures involving events of aaRS gain and loss among mimiviruses.

Keywords: Mimiviridae; Niemeyer virus; aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase; gene duplication; giant virus isolation

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