Mimivirus transcription and translation occur at well-defined locations within amoeba host cells
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Author(s):
Lotte Mayer, Georgi Nikolov, Martin Kunert, Matthias Horn, Anouk Willemsen
Published in:
Journal of Virology, Issue 99, 2025, ISSN 0022-538X
Publisher:
American Society for Microbiology
DOI:
10.1128/JVI.00554-25
A giant virus forms a specialized subcellular environment within its amoeba host for efficient translation
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Author(s):
Ruixuan Zhang, Lotte Mayer, Hiroyuki Hikida, Yuichi Shichino, Mari Mito, Anouk Willemsen, Shintaro Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Ogata
Published in:
Nature Microbiology, Issue 11, 2026, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI:
10.1038/S41564-025-02234-X
A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria
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Author(s):
Patrick Arthofer, Florian Panhölzl, Vincent Delafont, Alban Hay, Siegfried Reipert, Norbert Cyran, Stefanie Wienkoop, Anouk Willemsen, Ines Sifaoui, Iñigo Arberas-Jiménez, Frederik Schulz, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, Matthias Horn
Published in:
Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI:
10.1038/S41467-024-47308-2
Novel High-Quality Amoeba Genomes Reveal Widespread Codon Usage Mismatch Between Giant Viruses and Their Hosts
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Author(s):
Anouk Willemsen, Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Matthias Horn
Published in:
Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI:
10.1093/GBE/EVAE271
