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How does a bacteriaphage infect its host?

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The protein capsid contains virus DNA or RNA and it this genome is injected into the cell of the bacteriophage (cell)

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What is the most common way phages exit host bacterium?

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cell lysis

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Describe lysis - for phage exiting host bacterium

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endolysin, is coded for in the viral nucleic acid of lytic phage

Endolysin attacks and breaks down bacteria’s cell wall peptidoglycan

Infected bacterium is destroyed as a result.

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Describe basic steps of the lytic cycle of bacteriophage

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  1. entry
  2. releases enzyme to break up host genome
  3. uses host genome to make it’s own material
  4. gets assembled
  5. enough are made lysis occurs
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5
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lysogenic cycle

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ability of bacteriophage to integrate it’s genome into the host’s cell

  • some bacteria have the ability to take their genes and work them into the bacterial chromosome (red-blue double circle)
  • produces bacterial and viral DNA
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6
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what are viruses made of?

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nucleic acid, proteins, and s/m lipids

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7
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describe a capsid of a virus

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Nucleic acid surrounded by a protective protein coat, called a capsid.

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describe envelope of a virus

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Some viruses have an outer membranous layer, called an envelope, made of lipid and protein, surrounds the capsid in some viruses.

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9
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do all viruses have envelopes?

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no

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10
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what is a difference between a naked and enveloped virus structure?

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an enveloped has an envelope with spikes embedded into it (glycoproteins)

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11
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How do viruses differ from living organisms?

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Viruses are not living organisms because they are incapable of carrying out all life processes

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12
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list characteristics of life that viruses do not conform to

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  • are not made of cells
  • can not reproduce on their own
  • do not grow or undergo division
  • do not transform energy
  • lack machinery for protein synthesis
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13
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do viruses have more variety in nature of their genomes than do cells?

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yes ; although much smaller than genomes of cells

can be dsDNA, ssDNA, dsRNA, and ssRNA

may be linear and composed of several segments or single and circular

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the viral capsid function b/c it has a protein. coat

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Protein coat provides protection for viral nucleic acid and means of attachment to host’s cells.

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The viral capsid is composed of protein subunits called

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capsomeres

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16
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capsids are composed of single type of capsomere while others are composed of multiple types; T or F

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true

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17
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How is the viral enveloped acquired?

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Acquired from host cell during viral release; envelope is portion of membrane system of host.

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18
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If the viral envelope is taken from an infected cell’s plasma membrane, what macromolecule is the viral envelope primarily made of?

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Also contains proteins and virally-coded glycoproteins (spikes).

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Envelope’s proteins and glycoproteins often play role in

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host recognition

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If a virus doesn’t have an envelope,it is considered to be a

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naked virus

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What is an advantage of having a cell envelope?

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  • wouldn’t be picked up by immune cells (protection) invisible cloak
  • doesn’t require any work - just steals it (steals part of host for it’s own use)
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22
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How do viruses exit the cell?

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lysis or budding

lysis = naked cell
budding = enveloped cell

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23
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How does a virus recognize & attach to its host?

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Adsorption

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Adsorption

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The general phases in the life cycle of animal viruses are adsorption, *penetration, synthesis, assembly, and release from the host cell

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25
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why do most viruses infect only a certain type of host?

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Specificity due to affinity of viral surface proteins to proteins on the surface of the host cell.

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26
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what characteristics bacteroiphages have that are attracted to proteins on the surface of bacterial cells?

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bacteroiphages have proteins in their tail fibers (those extensions that look like legs)

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What characteristics do animal viruses have that are attracted ot the glycoproteins on the surface of animal cells?

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animal viruses have proteins or glycoprotein spikes that correspond to glycoproteins on the surface of animal cells.

28
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Virus exist outside and inside its host true or false

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true

29
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what is the extracellular state called when a virus infects its host?

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virion

30
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What is composed of the virion?

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  • protein coat (capsid) surrounding nucleic acid
  • some have phospholipid envelope
31
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what is the outermost layer function for host cells?

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Outermost layer provides protection and recognition sites for host cells

32
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How does a virus infects its host intracellular state?

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capsid removed
virus exists as nucleic acid (genetic material)

33
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How does an animal virus infect its host? (2)

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  1. Direct penetration of naked virus (Viral genome enters cell, while capsid remains on cell’s surface.)
  2. endocytosis
34
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what are three examples of animal virus entry?

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influenza
herpes simplex virus
HIV/AIDS virus

35
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does viral genome have DNA, RNA, BOTH?

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EITHER BOTH NEVER BOTH

36
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Pre-formed enzymes required for viral replication: polymerase function

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DNA or RNA

37
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Pre-formed enzymes required for viral replication: Replicases

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copy DNA

38
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Pre-formed enzymes required for viral replication: reverse transcriptase

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synthesis of DNA from RNA

39
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When new animal viruses exit host cell it depends on what?

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Depends whether or not they have an envelope.

40
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how do naked viruses exit the host cell?

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After construction of capsid, naked viruses may be released from animal cell through exocytosis or may cause lysis and death of cell.

41
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how doe enveloped viruses exit the cell?

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  • Often released through a process called budding
  • Virus exits cell with part of cell’s plasma membrane.
42
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Cytopathic effects

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cell damage altering microscopic appearance

43
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what type of changes can cytopathetic effects cause?

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  • Disorientation of individual cells
  • Gross changes in shape or size
  • Intracellular changes (inclusion bodies, syncytium)
44
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How long is latency of viruses? some can remain dormant

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can remain for years with no (little) viral actiivty

45
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what do retroviral provirus do? ex. disease

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Retroviral provirus incorporates into host DNA (HIV)

46
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Some latent viruses do not incorporate - name an example

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herpes

47
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what type of virus is influenza?

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RNA virus and segemented

48
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For influenza, where do viruses attach to and multipies?

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respiratory tract

49
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How does influenza enter the nucleus?

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segments of RNA genome enter the nucleus

50
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how does influenza assemble and leave the cell?

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finished viruses are asembled and bud off the cell

INFLUENZA IS ENVELOPE

51
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RNA genome increases the risk of what

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mutation

52
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What is key to influenza?

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glycoprotein spikes like Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase

53
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Hemagglutinin - how many subtypes?

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15 subtypes

54
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Hemagglutinin function

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binds to host cell; virulence factor (most important)

55
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Neuraminidase - how many subtypes?

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9 subtypes

56
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Neuraminidase function

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hydrolyzes mucus and assists viral budding and release

57
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Both glycoproteins, H and N, frequently undergo genetic changes, which decreases what?

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the effectiveness of the host immune response

58
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Why makes influenza hard for memory cells to recognize?

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high rate of mutation (RNA) - changes a lot —- akd antigentic drift

59
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antigenic drift

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constant mutation – gradually change their amino acid composition

60
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antigenic shift

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one of the genes or RNA strands is substituted with a gene or strand from another influenza virus from a different animal host

61
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what two things influence Influenza mutation?

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antigenic drift

antigenic shift

62
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What is the most virulent influenza strand?

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Influenza A

After 2003, strains of influenza A viruses that usually infect birds underwent an antigenic shift and began to infect humans

63
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what influenza strand undergoes antigenic drift but no antigenic shift?

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Influenza B

64
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What influenza strand is known to only cause minor respiratory disease; probably not invovled in epidemics?

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Influenza C

65
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Where does influenza A bind to?

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Binds to ciliated cells of respiratory mucosa

Causes rapid shedding of cells, stripping the respiratory epithelium; severe inflammation

66
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symptoms of influenza A

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Fever, headache, myalgia, pharyngeal pain, shortness of breath, coughing

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