Amoeba/amoebal symbiont genetic transfers: lessons from giant virus neighbours.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_6FC390B0895A
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Publications
Institution
Title
Amoeba/amoebal symbiont genetic transfers: lessons from giant virus neighbours.
Journal
Intervirology
Author(s)
Thomas Vincent, Greub Gilbert
ISSN
1423-0100[electronic], 0300-5526[linking]
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Volume
53
Number
5
Pages
254-267
Language
english
Abstract
Free-living amoebae serve as hosts for a variety of amoebae-resisting microorganisms, including giant viruses and certain bacteria. The latter include symbiotic bacteria as well as bacteria exhibiting a pathogenic phenotype towards amoebae. Amoebae-resisting bacteria have been shown to be widespread in water and to use the amoebae as a reservoir, a replication niche, a protective armour as well as a training ground to select virulence traits allowing survival in the face of microbicidal effects of macrophages, the first line of defense against invading pathogens. More importantly, amoebae play a significant role as a melting pot for genetic exchanges. These ecological and evolutionary roles of amoebae might also be at play for giant viruses and knowledge derived from the study of amoebae-resisting bacteria is useful for the study and understanding of interactions between amoebae and giant viruses. This is especially important since some genes have spread in all domains of life and the exponential availability of eukaryotic genomes and metagenomic sequences will allow researchers to explore these genetic exchanges in a more comprehensive way, thus completely changing our perception of the evolutionary history of organisms. Thus, a large part of this review is dedicated to report current known gene exchanges between the different amoebae-resisting organisms and between amoebae and the internalized bacteria.
Keywords
Amoebae, Gene Transfer, Symbiotic Bacteria, Free-Living Amebas, Intracellular Bacteria, Legionella-Pneumophila, Entamoeba-Histolytica, Ostreococcus-Tauri, Bemisia-Tabaci, Dictyostelium-Discoideum, Acanthamoeba-Castellanii, Comparative Genomics, Lateral Transfer
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Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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06/07/2010 9:55
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20/08/2019 14:28
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