Initial Events Associated with Virus PBCV-1 Infection of Chlorella NC64A
- 26 September 2009
- book chapter
- other
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Progress in Botany
- Vol. 71 (3), 169-183
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02167-1_7
Abstract
Chlorella viruses (or chloroviruses) are very large, plaque-forming viruses. The viruses are multilayered structures containing a large double-stranded DNA genome, a lipid bilayered membrane, and an outer icosahedral capsid shell. The viruses replicate in certain isolates of the coccal green alga, Chlorella. Sequence analysis of the 330-kbp genome of Paramecium bursaria Chlorella virus 1 (PBCV-1), the prototype of the virus family Phycodnaviridae, reveals + channel. This chapter focuses on the initial steps in virus infection and provides a plausible role for the function of the viral K+ channel in lowering the turgor pressure of the host. This step appears to be a prerequisite for delivery of the viral genome into the host.This publication has 57 references indexed in Scilit:
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