The frenemies within: viruses, retrotransposons and plasmids that naturally infect Saccharomyces yeasts

This article has been written to briefly introduce viruses, retrotransposons and plasmids that infect Saccharomyces yeasts, emphasize some important cellular proteins and machineries with which they interact, and suggest the evolutionary consequences of these interactions. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Saccharomyces yeasts harbor a variety of intracellular nucleic acid elements that can impact the physiology and evolutionary fitness of their host. The lifecycles of these viruses, retrotransposons and plasmids provide a unique model to study the hijack and antagonism of eukaryotic cellular machineries, and the evolutionary consequences of long‐term nucleic acid element persistence.
Source: Yeast - Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Tags: Budding Topic Source Type: research