TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooperation
T2 - Another mechanism of viral evolution
AU - Shirogane, Yuta
AU - Watanabe, Shumpei
AU - Yanagi, Yusuke
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank S. Ohno, T. Hashiguchi, and M. Takeda for invaluable discussions. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 24115005, from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan 24790444 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and a grant from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan (the Research Committee of Prion Disease and Slow Virus Infection).
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - RNA viruses evolve rapidly under selection pressure as a result of the high error rates of viral RNA polymerase. 'Cooperation' between wild type and variant measles virus (MV) genomes through the heterooligomer formation of a viral protein has recently been shown to act as a mechanism of viral evolution. This type of cooperation between genomes producing a new phenotype may have implications for various aspects of evolution, including the expansion of viral tropism and host range, the emergence of segmented viral genomes, and the evolution of heteromultimeric molecules. It also lends support to the concept of the quasispecies acting as a unit of selection.
AB - RNA viruses evolve rapidly under selection pressure as a result of the high error rates of viral RNA polymerase. 'Cooperation' between wild type and variant measles virus (MV) genomes through the heterooligomer formation of a viral protein has recently been shown to act as a mechanism of viral evolution. This type of cooperation between genomes producing a new phenotype may have implications for various aspects of evolution, including the expansion of viral tropism and host range, the emergence of segmented viral genomes, and the evolution of heteromultimeric molecules. It also lends support to the concept of the quasispecies acting as a unit of selection.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tim.2013.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.tim.2013.05.004
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23764388
AN - SCOPUS:84879703691
SN - 0966-842X
VL - 21
SP - 320
EP - 324
JO - Trends in Microbiology
JF - Trends in Microbiology
IS - 7
ER -
