MIMIVIRUSES BREAK DOGMAS. “The surprise in the mimivirus genome, was not only its record 1.2-Mb size, but the nature of its gene content itself. Lacking ribosomes, viruses are supposed to entirely hand over the synthesis of their own proteins to their host’s machinery. Already weaken by the discovery of numerous tRNA in some phycodnavirus, this dogma is now further demolished by the finding of virus-encoded translation enzymes and factors.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022