Viruses as a survival strategy in the armory of life

Origin of viruses: primordial replicators recruiting capsids from hosts

(2019) Mart Krupovic et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Using Metagenomics to Characterize an Expanding Virosphere

(2018) Yong-Zhen Zhang et al.   CELL

Tailed giant Tupanvirus possesses the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere

(2018) Jônatas Abrahão et al.   Nature Communications

The universal ancestor, the deeper nodes of the tree of life, and the fundamental types of primary cells (cellular domains)

(2018) Massimo Di Giulio   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of the genus Mimivirus based on translation protein homology and its implication in the tree of life

(2017) V.M. Marcelino et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH

Eukaryotic ribosome assembly, transport and quality control

(2017) Cohue Peña et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Eukaryotic ribosome assembly, transport and quality control

(2017) Cohue Peña et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Do Viruses Exchange Genes across Superkingdoms of Life?

(2017) Shahana S. Malik et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Giant Viruses of Amoebae: A Journey Through Innovative Research and Paradigm Changes

(2017) Philippe Colson et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Mimivirus inaugurated in the 21st century the beginning of a reclassification of viruses

(2016) Vikas Sharma et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The ribosome as a missing link in the evolution of life

(2015) Meredith Root-Bernstein et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of viruses and cells: do we need a fourth domain of life to explain the origin of eukaryotes?

(2015) David Moreira et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution

(2015) A. Nasir et al.   Science Advances

Evolution of the ribosome at atomic resolution

(2014) A. S. Petrov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Origin and evolution of the Peptidyl Transferase Center from proto-tRNAs

(2014) Sávio T. Farias et al.   FEBS Open Bio

The ribosome as a versatile catalyst: reactions at the peptidyl transferase center

(2013) Marina V Rodnina   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Molecular paleontology: a biochemical model of the ancestral ribosome

(2013) Chiaolong Hsiao et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Protoribosome by quantum kernel energy method

(2013) L. Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reclassification of Giant Viruses Composing a Fourth Domain of Life in the New Order Megavirales

(2012) Philippe Colson et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Ribosomal tunnel and translation regulation

(2011) A. A. Bogdanov et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY-MOSCOW

The ribosomal tunnel as a functional environment for nascent polypeptide folding and translational stalling

(2011) Daniel N Wilson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Ribosome evolution: Emergence of peptide synthesis machinery

(2011) Koji Tamura   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Gene Exchange and the Origin of Giant Viruses

(2010) Jonathan Filée et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Origin and Evolution of the Ribosome

(2010) G. E. Fox   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A structural view on the mechanism of the ribosome-catalyzed peptide bond formation

(2009) Miljan Simonović et al.   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Driving ribosome assembly

(2009) Dieter Kressler et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Roles of viruses in the environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The evolving ribosome: from non-coded peptide bond formation to sophisticated translation machinery

(2009) Chen Davidovich et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

The origin of viruses

(2009) Patrick Forterre et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY