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Viruses that infect mitochondria

28 March 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

Chestnut blightA listener of the science podcast This Week in Virology asked in 2010 whether there are viruses that infect mitochondria:

Is there a virus that infects mitochondria? It’s an organelle that has its own genetic material and polymerase, so it could replicate a virus. Does the mitochondrial double membrane and the cell membrane impose a barrier that phages cannot transpose?

At the time I did not know that there were viruses that infect mitochondria, but they had been discovered years earlier. They are called, appropriately, mitoviruses.

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Filed Under: Basic virology, Information Tagged With: fungus, mitochondria, mitovirus, Narnavirus, plant, RNA polymerase, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 479: Trypsin the flight fantastic

4 February 2018 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiVome explores induction of antiviral responses by repeating patterns of capsids, and a fungus in the mosquito gut that aids dengue virus replication.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: aedes aegyptii, capsid, dengue virus, foregut, fungus, innate immunity, mosquito, PAMP, repeating pattern, TLR, toll-like receptor, trypsin, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 469: Mycovirus stuffed potatoes

26 November 2017 by Vincent Racaniello

The TWiV hosts discuss a plant virus that infects a fungus, and whether you need to work insane hours to succeed in science.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: cross-Kingdom, cucumber mosaic virus, dsRNA, fungus, mycovirus, phytopathogenic, plant virus, potato, success in science, transmission, viral, virology, virus, viruses

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