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Structural Study of the Cobetia marina Bacteriophage 1 (Carin-1) by Cryo-EM

Alessio D’acapito
Florian Lelchat
Guy Schoehn
Emmanuelle Neumann

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Most of studied bacteriophages (phages) are terrestrial viruses. However, marine phages are shown to be highly involved in all levels of oceanic regulation. They are, however, still largely overlooked by the scientific community. By inducing cell lysis on half of the bacterial population daily, their role and influence on the bacterial biomass and evolution, as well as their impact in the global biogeochemical cycles, is undeniable. Cobetia marina virus 1 (Carin-1) is a member of the Podoviridae family infecting the γ-protoabacteria C. marina. Here, we present the almost complete, nearly-atomic resolution structure of Carin-1 comprising capsid, portal, and tail machineries at 3.5 Å, 3.8 Å and 3.9 Å, respectively, determined by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Our experimental results, combined with AlphaFold2 (AF), allowed us to obtain the nearly-atomic structure of Carin-1 by fitting and refining the AF atomic models in the high resolution cryo-EM map, skipping the bottleneck of de-novo manual building and speeding up the structure determination process. Our structural results highlighted the T7-like nature of Carin1, as well as several novel structural features like the presence of short spikes on the capsid, reminiscent those described for Rhodobacter capsulatus gene transfer agent (RcGTA). This is, to our knowledge, the first time such assembly is described for a bacteriophage, shedding light into the common evolution and shared mechanisms between gene transfer agents and phages. This first full structure determined for a marine podophage allowed to propose an infection mechanism different than the one proposed for the archetypal podophage T7
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hal-04256769 , version 1 (24-10-2023)

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Alessio D’acapito, Thomas Roret, Eleftherios Zarkadas, Pierre-Yves Mocaër, Florian Lelchat, et al.. Structural Study of the Cobetia marina Bacteriophage 1 (Carin-1) by Cryo-EM. Journal of Virology, 2023, 97 (4), pp.00248-23. ⟨10.1128/jvi.00248-23⟩. ⟨hal-04256769⟩
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