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Caltech Ge/Bi 246: Environmental Viruses : Interesting Virus-Related Articles Found by Group Members
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Grayson Chadwick (Caltech) is following 1 new article in Caltech Ge/Bi 246: Environmental Viruses: Interesting Virus-Related Articles Found by Group MembersLogin or register to post commentsHere's a really cool article about how phages can mutate their host specificity. Maybe everyones seen this before but it was new to me. - Grayson Chadwick (Caltech) February 17, 2010 Comment deleted
Anne Dekas (Caltech) is following 1 new article in Caltech Ge/Bi 246: Environmental Viruses: Interesting Virus-Related Articles Found by Group MembersLogin or register to post commentsThis paper offers a new perspective on viruses, not as agents of disease or destruction, but as a critical part of an inter-domain symbiosis. The significance of the role environmental viruses play in global ecology -- not just the microbial world -- seems potentially large and yet currently under-appreciated. Comment deletedThis looks like a good article to read for group meeting. Comment deleted- Arbel Tadmor (Caltech) is following 1 new article in Caltech Ge/Bi 246: Environmental Viruses: Interesting Virus-Related Articles Found by Group MembersLogin or register to post comments
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- Anne Dekas (Caltech) is following 1 new article in Caltech Ge/Bi 246: Environmental Viruses: Interesting Virus-Related Articles Found by Group MembersLogin or register to post commentsI mentioned this paper in seminar yesterday in the context of how different the Prochlorococcus host and phage photosystem II genes and proteins are (described by Lindell et al Nature 2005). In this more recent paper (2009), the authors look at photosystem I gene cassettes. By modeling the structures of viral and host proteins, they conclude that the viral form is significantly structurally and potentially functionally different. Calling this "phage gene innovation," the authors suggest that "the oceanic virome could be an almost unlimited source of naturally bioengineered gene cassettes." Comment deleted
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Login or register to post commentsby MerryWhen you're outnumbered five or ten to one, strategy counts. Bacteria and archaea are master strategists, thriving despite the omnipresent hordes of phage. For some time, it has been known that prokaryotic cells have ploys for blocking phage adsorption,
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