Are chlorella viruses a rich source of ion channel genes?

FEBS Lett

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0722, USA.

Published: September 2003

Plaque-forming dsDNA (>330 kb) viruses that infect certain unicellular, eukaryotic chlorella-like green algae contain approximately 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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