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Commensalism in the Mimiviridae giant virus family

Authors: Jeudy, Sandra; Bertaux, Lionel; Alempic, Jean-Marie; Lartigue, Audrey; Legendre, Matthieu; Belmudes, Lucid; Santini, Sébastien; +8 Authors

Commensalism in the Mimiviridae giant virus family

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Abstract Acanthamoeba-infecting Mimiviridae belong to three clades: Mimiviruses (A), Moumouviruses (B) and Megaviruses (C). The uniquely complex mobilome of these giant viruses includes virophages and linear 7 kb-DNA molecules called “transpovirons”. We recently isolated a virophage (Zamilon vitis) and two transpovirons (ma B tv and mv C tv) respectively associated to B-clade and C-clade mimiviruses. We used the capacity of the Zamilon virophage to replicate both on B-clade and C-clade host viruses to investigate the three partite interaction network governing the propagation of transpovirons. We found that the virophage could transfer both types of transpovirons to B-clade and C-clade host viruses provided they were devoid of a resident transpoviron (permissive effect). If not, only the resident transpoviron was replicated and propagated within the virophage progeny (dominance effect). Although B- and C-clade viruses devoid of transpoviron could replicate both ma B tv and mv C tv, they did it with a lower efficiency across clades, suggesting an ongoing process of adaptive co-evolution. We performed proteomic comparisons of host viruses and virophage particles carrying or cleared of transpovirons in search of proteins involved in this adaptation process. These experiments revealed that transpoviron-encoded proteins are synthetized during the combined mimiviruses/virophage/transpoviron replication process and some of them are specifically incorporated into the virophage and giant virus particles together with the cognate transpoviron DNA. This study also highlights a unique example of intricate commensalism in the viral world, where the transpoviron uses the virophage to propagate from one host virus to another and where the Zamilon virophage and the transpoviron depend on their host giant virus to replicate, this without affecting the giant virus infectious cycle, at least in laboratory conditions. Author Summary The Mimiviridae are giant viruses with dsDNA genome up to 1.5 Mb. They build huge viral factories in the host cytoplasm in which the nuclear-like virus-encoded functions (transcription and replication) take place. They are themselves the target of infections by 20 kb-dsDNA virophages, replicating in the giant virus factories. They can also be found associated with 7kb-DNA episomes, dubbed transpovirons. We investigated the relationship between these three players by combining competition experiments involving the newly isolated Zamilon vitis virophage as a vehicle for transpovirons of different origins with proteomics analyses of virophage and giant virus particles. Our results suggest that relationship of the virophage, the transpoviron, and their host giant virus, extend the concept of commensalism to the viral world.

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