A new archaeal virus that suppresses the transcription of host immunity genes
Israela Turgeman-Grott,
Noam Golan,
Uri Neri
et al.
Abstract:In some extreme environments, archaeal cells have been shown to have chronic viral infections, and such infections are well-tolerated by the hosts and may potentially protect against more lethal infections by lytic viruses. We have discovered that a natural Haloferax strain (48N), which is closely related to the model organism Haloferax volcanii, is chronically infected by a lemon-shaped virus, which we could purify from the medium. The chronic infection by this virus, which we named LSV-48N, is never cleared,… Show more
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