You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .

Viruses, Volume 12, Issue 7

July 2020 - 94 articles

Cover Story: The large capsids, or heads, of giant phages are unusual, containing not only their long genomes, but in many instances a large amount of protein that is ejected into the host bacterial cell. How giant phage heads form is mostly undefined. In this study, the proteolysis of head proteins by the prohead protease was shown to be essential for head maturation of giant Salmonella virus SPN3US. In the absence of proteolysis, precursor head structures remained anchored to the Salmonella inner membrane, thus preventing packaging of the genomic DNA and addition of the tail. View this paper
  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (94)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,221 Views
10 Pages

High-Quality Resolution of the Outbreak-Related Zika Virus Genome and Discovery of New Viruses Using Ion Torrent-Based Metatranscriptomics

  • Silvia I. Sardi,
  • Rejane H. Carvalho,
  • Luis G. C. Pacheco,
  • João P. P. d. Almeida,
  • Emilia M. M. d. A. Belitardo,
  • Carina S. Pinheiro,
  • Gúbio S. Campos and
  • Eric R. G. R. Aguiar

21 July 2020

Arboviruses, including the Zika virus, have recently emerged as one of the most important threats to human health. The use of metagenomics-based approaches has already proven valuable to aid surveillance of arboviral infections, and the ability to re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,030 Views
17 Pages

Inter-Strain Epigenomic Profiling Reveals a Candidate IAP Master Copy in C3H Mice

  • Rita Rebollo,
  • Mariana Galvão-Ferrarini,
  • Liane Gagnier,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Ardian Ferraj,
  • Christine R. Beck,
  • Matthew C. Lorincz and
  • Dixie L. Mager

21 July 2020

Insertions of endogenous retroviruses cause a significant fraction of mutations in inbred mice but not all strains are equally susceptible. Notably, most new Intracisternal A particle (IAP) ERV mutagenic insertions have occurred in C3H mice. We show...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,749 Views
29 Pages

21 July 2020

Endemic to West Africa and South America, mammalian arenaviruses can cross the species barrier from their natural rodent hosts to humans, resulting in illnesses ranging from mild flu-like syndromes to severe and fatal haemorrhagic zoonoses. The incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,177 Views
18 Pages

Oropouche Virus Infects, Persists and Induces IFN Response in Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells as Identified by RNA PrimeFlow™ and qRT-PCR Assays

  • Mariene Ribeiro Amorim,
  • Marjorie Cornejo Pontelli,
  • Gabriela Fabiano de Souza,
  • Stéfanie Primon Muraro,
  • Daniel A. Toledo-Teixeira,
  • Julia Forato,
  • Karina Bispo-dos-Santos,
  • Natália S. Barbosa,
  • Matheus Cavalheiro Martini and
  • Pierina Lorencini Parise
  • + 9 authors

21 July 2020

Oropouche orthobunyavirus (OROV) is an emerging arbovirus with a high potential of dissemination in America. Little is known about the role of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) response during OROV infection in humans. Thus, to evaluate human...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,465 Views
21 Pages

20 July 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic is developing worldwide with common dynamics but also with marked differences between regions and countries. These are not completely understood, but presumably, provide a clue to find ways to mitigate epidemics until strategies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,581 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2020

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affects almost everyone in the world in many ways. We previously predicted antivirals (atazanavir, remdesivir and lopinavir/ritona...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
196 Citations
13,387 Views
11 Pages

Age-Dependent Progression of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Syrian Hamsters

  • Nikolaus Osterrieder,
  • Luca D. Bertzbach,
  • Kristina Dietert,
  • Azza Abdelgawad,
  • Daria Vladimirova,
  • Dusan Kunec,
  • Donata Hoffmann,
  • Martin Beer,
  • Achim D. Gruber and
  • Jakob Trimpert

20 July 2020

In late 2019, an outbreak of a severe respiratory disease caused by an emerging coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, resulted in high morbidity and mortality in infected humans. Complete understanding of COVID-19, the multi-faceted disease caused by SARS-CoV-2,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,471 Views
16 Pages

Putative Role of Arthropod Vectors in African Swine Fever Virus Transmission in Relation to Their Bio-Ecological Properties

  • Sarah I. Bonnet,
  • Emilie Bouhsira,
  • Nick De Regge,
  • Johanna Fite,
  • Florence Etoré,
  • Mutien-Marie Garigliany,
  • Ferran Jori,
  • Laetitia Lempereur,
  • Marie-Frédérique Le Potier and
  • Elsa Quillery
  • + 3 authors

20 July 2020

African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most important diseases in Suidae due to its significant health and socioeconomic consequences and represents a major threat to the European pig industry, especially in the absence of any available treatment or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,511 Views
15 Pages

Comparative Analyses of the Antiviral Activities of IgG and IgA Antibodies to Influenza A Virus M2 Protein

  • Kosuke Okuya,
  • Nao Eguchi,
  • Rashid Manzoor,
  • Reiko Yoshida,
  • Shinji Saito,
  • Tadaki Suzuki,
  • Michihito Sasaki,
  • Takeshi Saito,
  • Yurie Kida and
  • Akina Mori-Kajihara
  • + 5 authors

20 July 2020

The influenza A virus (IAV) matrix-2 (M2) protein is an antigenically conserved viral envelope protein that plays an important role in virus budding together with another envelope protein, hemagglutinin (HA). An M2-specific mouse monoclonal IgG antib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,091 Views
14 Pages

Human Metapneumovirus Escapes NK Cell Recognition through the Downregulation of Stress-Induced Ligands for NKG2D

  • Mohammad Diab,
  • Dominik Schmiedel,
  • Einat Seidel,
  • Eran Bacharach and
  • Ofer Mandelboim

20 July 2020

The Pneumoviridae family includes human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and human orthopneumovirus, which is also known as a respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV). These are large enveloped, negative single-strand RNA viruses. HMPV and HRSV are the human members...

of 10

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Viruses - ISSN 1999-4915