Cells and giant viruses: a win-win co-evolution

Project Information

VIREVOL

Grant agreement ID: 832601

DOI

10.3030/832601

EC signature date 2 May 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 246 453,00

EU contribution

€ 2 246 453,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management Plan

Open Research Data management plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Evidence for [2Fe-2S] 2+ and Linear [3Fe-4S] 1+ Clusters in a Unique Family of Glycine/Cysteine-Rich Fe-S Proteins from Megavirinae Giant Viruses

Author(s): Alejandro Villalta; Batoul Srour; Audrey Lartigue; Martin Clémancey; Deborah Byrne; Florence Chaspoul; Antoine Loquet; Bruno Guigliarelli; Geneviève Blondin; Chantal Abergel; Bénédicte Burlat
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 2733-2738, ISSN 2691-3704
Publisher: ACS publications
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10484

The Astounding World of Glycans from Giant Viruses

Author(s): Immacolata Speciale; Anna Notaro; Chantal Abergel; Rosa Lanzetta; Todd L. Lowary; Antonio Molinaro; Michela Tonetti; James L. Van Etten; Cristina De Castro
Published in: Chemical Review, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0009-2665
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00118

Functional redundancy revealed by the deletion of the mimivirus GMC-oxidoreductase genes

Author(s): Jean-Marie Alempic, Hugo Bisio, Alejandro Villalta, Sébastien Santini, Audrey Lartigue, Alain Schmitt, Claire Bugnot, Anna Notaro, Lucid Belmudes, Annie Adrait, Olivier Poirot, Denis Ptchelkine, Cristina De Castro, Yohann Couté, Chantal Abergel
Published in: MicroLife, 2024, ISSN 2633-6693
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.28.538727

An update on eukaryotic viruses revived from ancient permafrost

Author(s): Jean-Marie Alempic; Audrey Lartigue; Artemiy E. Goncharov; Guido Grosse; Jens Strauss; Alexey N. Tikhonov; Alexander N. Fedorov; Olivier Poirot; Matthieu Legendre; Sébastien Santini; Chantal Abergel; Jean-Michel Claverie
Published in: EPIC3Viruses, MDPI AG, 15(2), 15 p., ISSN: 1999-4915, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1999-4915
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.10.515937

Melbournevirus encodes a shorter H2B-H2A doublet histone variant that forms structurally distinct nucleosome structures

Author(s): Alejandro Villalta, Hugo Bisio, Chelsea M. Toner, Chantal Abergel, Karolin Luger
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62031-2

The giant mimivirus 1.2 Mb genome is elegantly organized into a 30 nm diameter helical protein shield

Author(s): Alejandro Villalta; Alain Schmitt; Leandro F Estrozi; Emmanuelle RJ Quemin; Jean-Marie Alempic; Audrey Lartigue; Vojtěch Pražák; Lucid Belmudes; Daven Vasishtan; Agathe MG Colmant; Flora A Honoré; Yohann Couté; Kay Grünewald; Chantal Abergel
Published in: Elife, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.77607

Giant viruses of the Megavirinae subfamily possess biosynthetic pathways to produce rare bacterial-like sugars in a clade-specific manner

Author(s): Anna Notaro,Olivier Poirot,Elsa D Garcin,Sebastien Nin,Antonio Molinaro,Michela Tonetti,Cristina De Castro,Chantal Abergel
Published in: MicroLife, 2022, ISSN 2633-6693
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/femsml/uqac002

Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics

Author(s): Schulz, F., Abergel, C. & Woyke, T.
Published in: Nature Review Microbiology, 2022, ISSN 1740-1526
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41579-022-00754-5

Pacmanvirus isolated from the Lost City hydrothermal field extends the concept of transpoviron beyond the family <i>Mimiviridae</i>

Author(s): Sébastien Santini, Audrey Lartigue, Jean-Marie Alempic, Yohann Couté, Lucid Belmudes, William J Brazelton, Susan Q Lang, Jean-Michel Claverie, Matthieu Legendre, Chantal Abergel
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wraf002

Evolutionarily conserved grammar rules viral factories of amoeba-infecting members of the hyperdiverse <i>Nucleocytoviricota</i> phylum

Author(s): Sofia Rigou, Alain Schmitt, Anaísa B. Moreno, Audrey Lartigue, Lucile Danner, Lotte Mayer, Claire Giry, Feres Trabelsi, Lucid Belmudes, Natalia Olivero-Deibe, Hugo Le Guenno, Yohann Couté, Mabel Berois, Matthieu Legendre, Sandra Jeudy, Chantal Abergel, Hugo Bisio
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2515074122

The DNA methylation landscape of giant viruses

Author(s): Sandra Jeudy, Sofia Rigou, Jean-Marie Alempic, Jean-Michel Claverie, Chantal Abergel, Matthieu Legendre
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, Page(s) 2657, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16414-2

Virus-encoded histone doublets are essential and form nucleosome-like structures

Author(s): Liu Y,Bisio H,Toner CM,Jeudy S,Philippe N,Zhou K,Bowerman S,White A,Edwards G,Abergel C,Luger K
Published in: CellPress, Issue 184(16), 2021, Page(s) 4237-4250.e19, ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.032

20 years of research on giant viruses

Author(s): Tressy Bosmon, Chantal Abergel, Jean-Michel Claverie
Published in: npj Viruses, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2948-1767
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44298-025-00093-1

Expanding the Occurrence of Polysaccharides to the Viral World: The Case of Mimivirus

Author(s): Anna Notaro, Yohann Couté, Lucid Belmudes, Maria Elena Laugeri, Annalisa Salis, Gianluca Damonte, Antonio Molinaro, Michela G. Tonetti, Chantal Abergel, Cristina De Castro
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202106671

Genetic manipulation of giant viruses and their host, Acanthamoeba castellanii

Author(s): Nadege Philippe; Avi Shukla; Chantal Abergel; Hugo Bisio
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2024, Page(s) 3-29, ISSN 1750-2799
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-023-00910-y

Evolution of giant pandoravirus revealed by CRISPR/Cas9

Author(s): Hugo Bisio; Matthieu Legendre; Claire Giry; Nadege Philippe; Jean-Marie Alempic; Sandra Jeudy; Chantal Abergel
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2023, Page(s) 428, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36145-4