1. Chapter 6 - Viruses
Obligate Intracellular Parasites – only demonstrate characteristics of life while “inside” a host cell: Bacteria, animal, plant

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Outside a host cell, inert, no enzyme or other activity
Inside a host cell – viral Nucleic Acid (DNA or RNA) takes over the cell and directs the cell to produce new virus particles (replication)
Size of Viruses: See page in text 155?, very tiny (picorna) to huge (pox viruses)

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Basic virus particle is called a “virion” – intact and infective virus particle
Components: Nucleic Acid (DNA or RNA), Protein coat (capsid) made of individual protein subunits called capsomeres. Some may have and outer envelope, a membrane, derived from the host cell. The envelope can have specific spikes of protein (H and N spikes of Influenza) that aid in attachment and makes them sensitive to chemical actions of disinfectants.

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Types of viruses based on “morphology” – shape; structure
Helical (like TMV or Ebola) Polyhedral (adeno and polio) Enveloped (flu) and Complex (bacteriophage)

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EBOLA

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Polio virions

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Influenza A: Enveloped, with spikes, RNA, multisegmented genome (8 separate pieces of RNA)

8. Bacteriophage: Complex
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Bacteriophage: Complex

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Taxonomy of viruses: complicated and “boring”; we’ll leave it to the ones with a higher “paygrade”

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Cultivation of viruses: need living cells, living hosts
Tissue cultures, embryonated eggs, bacterial cultures

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Cultivation of viruses: need living cells, living hosts
Tissue cultures, embryonated eggs, bacterial cultures
Bacteria grown as a “lawn” – and viruses are in the clear zones, plaques

12. Chapter 6 – Viruses: Viral replication in bacteria – life cycle of bacterial virus LYTIC Cycle

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Viral replication in bacteria – life cycle of bacterial virus
Lysogneic (latent) cycle, genome of virus incorporated into host cell genome “infected with seeds of destruction”

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Animal Virus Life Cycle: Penetration, Uncoating, Biosynthesis, Assembly, Maturation, Release Can have Latent infection also.

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Animal Virus Life Cycle: Penetration, Uncoating, Biosynthesis, Assembly, Maturation, Release Can have Latent infection also. Latent infection is seen in herpes type and even HIV

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Animal Virus Life Cycle: Penetration, Uncoating, Biosynthesis, Assembly, Maturation, Release Can have Latent infection also. Latent infection is seen in herpes type and even HIV
Hiv is a RNA virus, a “retrovirus” with an enzyme called reverse transcriptase “ causes DNA to be synthesized from genome that is RNA (backwards) The Drug AZT works on HIV by inhibiting this enzyme

17. Budding of an animal virus from a host cell
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Budding of an animal virus from a host cell

18. Budding of rabies viruses – electron photomicrograph
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Budding of rabies viruses – electron photomicrograph

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Multi-segmented RNA genome of Influenza: higher mutation rate, genetic shift and drift, new vaccines required

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Prions: Infectious proteins, cause scrappie in sheep, Kuru in humans, BSE in cattle, and KJD in people (mad cow in humans)
Watch the video “The Brain Eaters” Spoingioform encephalopathy