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Chapter 13
Characterizing and Classifying Viruses, Viroids, and Prions
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Cause many infections of humans, animals, plants, and bacteria
Cannot carry out any metabolic pathway
Neither grow nor respond to the environment
Cannot reproduce independently
Recruit the cell’s metabolic pathways to increase their numbers
Cause most of the diseases that plague the industrialized world
Virus – miniscule, acellular, infectious agent having one or several
pieces of either DNA or RNA
No cytoplasmic membrane, cytosol, organelles (with one exception)
Have extracellular and intracellular state
Characteristics of Viruses
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Extracellular State
 Called virion
 Protein coat (capsid) surrounding nucleic acid
 Nucleic acid and capsid also called nucleocapsid
 Some have phospholipid envelope
 Outermost layer provides protection and recognition
sites for host cells
Intracellular State
 Capsid removed
 Virus exists as nucleic acid
Characteristics of Viruses
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Characteristics of Viruses
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Genetic Material of Viruses
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Show more variety in nature of their genomes than do cells
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May be DNA or RNA, but never both
Primary way scientists categorize and classify viruses
Can be dsDNA, ssDNA, dsRNA, ssRNA
May be linear and composed of several segments or single and circular
Much smaller than genomes of cells
Characteristics of Viruses
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Hosts of Viruses
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Most viruses infect only particular host’s cells
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Due to affinity of viral surface proteins or glycoproteins for
complementary proteins or glycoproteins on host cell surface
May be so specific they only infect particular kind of cell in a
particular host
Generalists – infect many kinds of cells in many different hosts
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Size of Viruses
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Capsid Morphology
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Capsids – protein coats that provide protection for viral nucleic
acid and means of attachment to host’s cells
Capsid composed of proteinaceous subunits called capsomeres
Some capsids composed of single type of capsomere; others
composed of multiple types
Complex shape of a bacteriophage
a. Notice helical capsid inside envelope
b. Notice polyhedral capsid inside envelope
Shapes of Viruses
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The Viral Envelope
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Acquired from host cell during viral replication or release;
envelope is portion of membrane system of host
Composed of phospholipid bilayer and proteins; some proteins are
virally coded glycoproteins (spikes)
Envelope’s proteins and glycoproteins often play role in host
recognition
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Classification of Viruses
Based on type of nucleic acid,
presence of envelope, shape, and size
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- = negative sense: complimentary for mRNA, cannot be directly translated
+ = positive sense: equivalent to mRNA
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Dependent on hosts’ organelles and enzymes to produce
new virions
Replication cycle usually results in death and lysis of host
cell → lytic replication
Stages of lytic replication cycle
 Attachment
 Entry
 Synthesis
 Assembly
 Release
Viral Replication of Bacteriophages
Viral Replication
Animation: Viral Replication Overview
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Viral Replication of Bacteriophages
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Viral Replication
Viral Replication
Animation: Virulent Bacteriophages
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Lysogeny
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Modified replication cycle
Infected host cells grow and reproduce normally for generations
before they lyse
Temperate phages
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Prophages – inactive phages
Lysogenic conversion results when phages carry genes that alter
phenotype of a bacterium
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Viral Replication - Bacteriophages
Viral Replication
Animation: Temperate Bacteriophages
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Replication of Animal Viruses
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Same basic replication pathway as bacteriophages
Differences result from
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Presence of envelope around some viruses
Eukaryotic nature of animal cells
Lack of cell wall in animal cells
Attachment of animal viruses
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Chemical attraction
Animal viruses do not have tails or tail fibers
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Have glycoprotein spikes or other attachment molecules that mediate
attachment
Viral Replication of Animal Viruses
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Viral Replication of Animal Viruses
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Replication of Animal Viruses
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Synthesis of animal viruses
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Each type of animal virus requires different strategy depending on
its nucleic acid
DNA viruses often enter the nucleus
RNA viruses often replicated in the cytoplasm
Must consider
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How mRNA is synthesized?
What serves as template for nucleic acid replication?
Viral Replication of Animal
Viruses
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dsDNA Viruses – similar to normal replication of host cellular DNA
ssDNA – in humans are paroviruses
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Host enzymes produce complimentary strand of DNA to make dsDNA
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can act directly as mRNA
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Use their reverse transcriptase to make DNA intermediate
+ssRNA – example is poliovirus
Retroviruses - +ssRNA but don’t use it as mRNA, HIV
-ssRNA – rabies and flu
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Not recognized by host ribosome
Has to use it’s RNA-dependent RNA transcriptase to make +RNA
dsRNA – rotavirus
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Unwinds, + strand acts immediately as mRNA, +RNA is transcribed by
RNA polymerase
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Viral Replication of Animal Viruses
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Replication of Animal Viruses
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Assembly and release of animal viruses
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Most DNA viruses assemble in and are released from nucleus into cytosol
Most RNA viruses develop solely in cytoplasm
Number of viruses produced and released depends on type of virus and
size and initial health of host cell
Enveloped viruses cause persistent infections
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Are released by “budding”, do not lyse cell right away so cause long lasting
infection
Naked viruses are released by exocytosis or may cause lysis and death of
host cell
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Viral Replication
Viral Replication
Animation: Animal Viruses
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Replication of Animal Viruses
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Latency of animal viruses
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Similar to lysogeny of bacteriophages but there are differences
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Some latent viruses do not become incorporated into host
chromosome
When provirus (latent virus) is incorporated into host DNA, condition
is permanent, becomes physical part of host’s chromosome
When animal viruses remain dormant in host cells
May be prolonged for years with no viral activity, signs, or symptoms
Viral Replication of Animal Viruses
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Viral Replication Comparison
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Normally, animal’s genes dictate that some cells can no
longer divide and those that can divide are prevented from
unlimited division
Genes for cell division are “turned off” or genes that
inhibit division are “turned on”
Neoplasia – uncontrolled cell division in multicellular animal;
mass of neoplastic cells is tumor
Benign vs. malignant tumors
 Metastasis
 Cancers
The Role of Viruses In Cancer
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Environmental factors that contribute to the activation of oncogenes
 Ultraviolet light
 Radiation
 Carcinogens
 Viruses
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Viruses cause 20-25% of human cancers in several ways
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Some carry copies of oncogenes as part of their genomes
Some promote oncogenes already present in host
Some interfere with tumor repression when they insert into host’s repressor gene
Several specific DNA and RNA viruses are known to cause ~15% of human
cancers
 Burkitt’s lymphoma
 Hodgkin’s disease
 Kaposi’s sarcoma
 Cervical cancer
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Culturing Viruses in the Laboratory
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Has to be done using cells
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Live organisms – bacterial cultures, lab plants or animals
Cell culture
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Bacteria, plant, animal
Embryonated chicken eggs are great – large cell, free of
microbes, contain nourishing yolk
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Characteristics of Viroids
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Extremely small, circular pieces of RNA that are infectious and
pathogenic in plants
Similar to RNA viruses, but lack capsid
May appear linear due to H bonding
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No animal diseases are known as of yet
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Other Parasitic Particles: Viroids and Prions
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Characteristics of Prions
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Proteinaceous infectious agents
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Composed of single protein PrP
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All mammals contain gene that codes for primary sequence of amino acids
in PrP
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Two stable tertiary structures of PrP
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Has role in activity of the brain but exaxt role still not known
Normal functional structure with -helices called cellular PrP
Disease-causing form with -sheets called prion PrP
Prion PrP converts cellular PrP into prion PrP by inducing
conformational change (acts enzymatically to do this)
Results in fatal neurological degeneration
Other Parasitic Particles: Viroids and Prions
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Characteristics of Prions
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Normally, nearby proteins and polysaccharides force PrP into
cellular shape
Excess PrP production or mutations in PrP gene result in initial
formation of prion PrP
When prions are present, they cause newly synthesized cellular
PrP to refold into prion PrP
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Characteristics of Prions
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All prion diseases involve fatal neurological degeneration,
deposition of fibrils in brain, and loss of brain matter
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Large vacuoles form in brain; characteristic spongy appearance
Spongiform encephalopathies – BSE, CJD, kuru
Prions only destroyed by incineration or autoclaving in 1N NaOH
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Normal cooking and sterilization procedures do not destroy them
Other Parasitic Particles: Viroids and Prions
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Other Parasitic Particles: Viroids and Prions
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Some scientists consider them complex pathogenic chemicals that
lack the characteristics of life
Other scientists consider them to be the least complex living entities
because they
 Use sophisticated methods to invade cells
 Have the ability to take control of their host cell
 Are able to replicate themselves
Are Viruses Alive?