Translation in Giant Viruses: A Unique Mixture of Bacterial and Eukaryotic Termination Schemes

Giant viruses coexisted with the cellular ancestors and represent a distinct supergroup along with superkingdoms Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya

(2012) Arshan Nasir et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Lausannevirus, a giant amoebal virus encoding histone doublets

(2011) Vincent Thomas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Modulation of exosome-mediated mRNA turnover by interaction of GTP-binding protein 1 (GTPBP1) with its target mRNAs

(2011) Kyung-Chul Woo et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

How mutations in tRNA distant from the anticodon affect the fidelity of decoding

(2011) T Martin Schmeing et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Informational Gene Phylogenies Do Not Support a Fourth Domain of Life for Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses

(2011) Tom A. Williams et al.   PLoS One

Distant Mimivirus relative with a larger genome highlights the fundamental features of Megaviridae

(2011) D. Arslan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Breaking the 1000-gene barrier for Mimivirus using ultra-deep genome and transcriptome sequencing

(2011) Matthieu Legendre et al.   Virology Journal

tRNA mimicry in translation termination and beyond

(2011) Yoshikazu Nakamura et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA

Selenoprofiles: profile-based scanning of eukaryotic genome sequences for selenoprotein genes

(2010) M. Mariotti et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

mRNA deep sequencing reveals 75 new genes and a complex transcriptional landscape in Mimivirus

(2010) M. Legendre et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Phylogenetic and Phyletic Studies of Informational Genes in Genomes Highlight Existence of a 4th Domain of Life Including Giant Viruses

(2010) Mickaël Boyer et al.   PLoS One

Omnipotent role of archaeal elongation factor 1 alpha (EF1 ) in translational elongation and termination, and quality control of protein synthesis

(2010) K. Saito et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Autoregulatory systems controlling translation factor expression: Thermostat-like control of translational accuracy

(2010) R. Betney et al.   RNA

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Mimivirus: the emerging paradox of quasi-autonomous viruses

(2010) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq

(2009) Cole Trapnell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Structural insights into eRF3 and stop codon recognition by eRF1

(2009) Z. Cheng et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The polyadenylation site of Mimivirus transcripts obeys a stringent 'hairpin rule'

(2009) D. Byrne et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Ten good reasons not to exclude giruses from the evolutionary picture

(2009) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

BFAST: An Alignment Tool for Large Scale Genome Resequencing

(2009) Nils Homer et al.   PLoS One

Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms

(2009) M. Boyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Connection between stop codon reassignment and frequent use of shifty stop frameshifting

(2009) H. Vallabhaneni et al.   RNA

Peptide Release on the Ribosome: Mechanism and Implications for Translational Control

(2008) Elaine M. Youngman et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Empirical profile mixture models for phylogenetic reconstruction

(2008) Le Si Quang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Giant viruses, giant chimeras: The multiple evolutionary histories of Mimivirus genes

(2008) David Moreira et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Distinct eRF3 Requirements Suggest Alternate eRF1 Conformations Mediate Peptide Release during Eukaryotic Translation Termination

(2008) Hua Fan-Minogue et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Structural basis for translation termination on the 70S ribosome

(2008) Martin Laurberg et al.   NATURE

Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

(2008) Ali Mortazavi et al.   NATURE METHODS