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ArticlePloS one2018

A novel chrysovirus from a clinical isolate of Aspergillus thermomutatus affects sporulation.

Mahjoub A Ejmal, David J Holland, Robin M MacDiarmid, Michael N Pearson

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mahjoub A EjmalSchool of Biological Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-4843-7362
David J HollandInfectious Diseases Unit, Division of Medicine, Staff Centre, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
Robin M MacDiarmidSchool of Biological Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0002-7057-2018
Michael N PearsonSchool of Biological Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
University of Auckland · NZMiddlemore Hospital · NZPlant & Food Research · NZ

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A clinical isolate of Aspergillus thermomutatus (Teleomorph: Neosartorya pseudofischeri) was found to contain ~35 nm isometric virus-like particles associated with four double-stranded (ds) RNA segments, each of which coded for a single open reading frame. The longest dsRNA element (3589 nt) encodes a putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (1114 aa), the second longest dsRNA element (2772 nt) encodes a coat protein (825 aa), and the other two dsRNAs (2676 nt, 2514 nt) encode hypothetical proteins of 768 aa and 711 aa, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis of the amino acid sequences showed 41-60% similarity to the proteins coded by the dsRNAs of the most closely related virus, Penicillium janczewskii chrysovirus 2, indicating that it is a new species based on the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses criteria for the genus Chrysovirus. This is the first virus reported from A. thermomutatus and was tentatively named Aspergillus thermomutatus chrysovirus 1. A virus free line of the fungal isolate, cured by cycloheximide treatment, produced large numbers of conidia but no ascospores at both 20°C and 37°C, whereas the virus infected line produced ten-fold fewer conidia at 20°C and a large number of ascospores at both temperatures. The effects of the virus on fungal sporulation have interesting implications for the spread of the fungus and possible use of the virus as a biological control agent.

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Biological Control AgentsAspergillosisAspergillusFungal VirusesHumansPhylogenyRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, ViralBiological Control AgentsRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID30571748
PMCPMC6301774
OpenAlexW2906636421

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