Are chlorella viruses a rich source of ion channel genes?

FEBS Letters

Moroni, Anna¹  Gazzarrini, Sabrina¹  Kang, Ming²  Van Etten, James L.² 

[1] Department of Biology and CNR-IBF, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy;Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0722, USA

关键词: K+ channel;    Kcv;    Ligand-gated channel;    Chlorella virus;    PBCV-1;   

DOI  :  10.1016/S0014-5793(03)00775-0

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

Plaque-forming dsDNA (>330 kb) viruses that infect certain unicellular, eukaryotic chlorella-like green algae contain ∼375 protein-encoding genes. These proteins include a 94 amino acid K⁺ channel protein, called Kcv, as well as two putative ligand-gated ion channels. The viruses also encode other proteins that could be involved in the assembly and/or function of ion channels, including protein kinases and a phosphatase, polyamine biosynthetic enzymes and histamine decarboxylase.

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