ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2021
Expanding the Occurrence of Polysaccharides to the Viral World: The Case of Mimivirus.
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- Comparative glycomic analysis of Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae uncovers host-related and lineage-specific glycosylation.Journal of biochemistry · 2026Article
- 20 years of research on giant viruses.Npj viruses · 2025Review
- Unexpected diversity and ecological significance of uncultivable large virus-like particles in aquatic environments.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Acanthamoeba polyphaga de novo transcriptome and its dynamics during Mimivirus infection.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Functional redundancy revealed by the deletion of the mimivirus GMC-oxidoreductase genes.microLife · 2024Article
- Cytopathic effects in Mimivirus infection: understanding the kinetics of virus-cell interaction.Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2024Article
- Surface fibrils on the particles of nucleocytoviruses: A review.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2023Review
- Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
- The Astounding World of Glycans from Giant Viruses.Chemical reviews · 2022Review
- The giant mimivirus 1.2 Mb genome is elegantly organized into a 30-nm diameter helical protein shield.eLife · 2022Article
- Giant viruses of themicroLife · 2022Article
- Expanding the Occurrence of Polysaccharides to the Viral World: The Case of Mimivirus.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2021Article
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Abstract
The general perception of viruses is that they are small in terms of size and genome, and that they hijack the host machinery to glycosylate their capsid. Giant viruses subvert all these concepts: their particles are not small, and their genome is more complex than that of some bacteria. Regarding glycosylation, this concept has been already challenged by the finding that Chloroviruses have an autonomous glycosylation machinery that produces oligosaccharides similar in size to those of small viruses (6-12 units), albeit different in structure compared to the viral counterparts. We report herein that Mimivirus possesses a glycocalyx made of two different polysaccharides, now challenging the concept that all viruses coat their capsids with oligosaccharides of discrete size. This discovery contradicts the paradigm that such macromolecules are absent in viruses, blurring the boundaries between giant viruses and the cellular world and opening new avenues in the field of viral glycobiology.
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