Metabolic reprogramming by viruses in the sunlit and dark ocean.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Marine ecosystem function is largely determined by matter and energy transformations mediated by microbial community interaction networks. Viral infection modulates network properties through mortality, gene transfer and metabolic reprogramming.

Results

Here we explore the nature and extent of viral metabolic reprogramming throughout the Pacific Ocean depth continuum. We describe 35 marine viral gene families with potential to reprogram metabolic flux through central metabolic pathways recovered from Pacific Ocean waters. Four of these families have been previously reported but 31 are novel. These known and new carbon pathway auxiliary metabolic genes were recovered from a total of 22 viral metagenomes in which viral auxiliary metabolic genes were differentiated f

SUBMITTER: Hurwitz BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4053976 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature