Ilona Rissanen

28.03.2014
Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä

An ancient virus type from extreme environments

Reviewers:

Reader Roman Tuma, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Bioology. Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

Docent Tomi Airenne, Department of Biosciences, Biochemistry, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Opponent:

Research Professor Nicola Abrescia, Bizkaia Technology Park, Structural Biology Unit, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences, Derio, Spain

Custos:

Professori Jaana Bamford, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä

Publications:

  1. Rissanen I, Pawlowski A, Harlos K, Grimes JM, Stuart DI, Bamford JK (2012) Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the major capsid proteins VP16 and VP17 of bacteriophage P23-77. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 68:580-583
  2. Rissanen I, Grimes JM, Pawlowski A, Mäntynen S, Harlos K, Bamford JK, Stuart DI (2013) Bacteriophage P23-77 capsid protein structures reveal the archetype of an ancient branch from a major virus lineage. Structure 21:718-26
  3. Rissanen I, Määttä JA, Hytönen VP, Bamford JKH. Capsid protein properties and the regulation of caprsid assembly of thermophilic bacteriophage P23-27 (Manuscript)
  4. Pawlowski A, Rissanen I, Bamford JK, Krupovic M, Jalasvuori M. (2014) Gammasphaerolipovirus, a newly proposed bacteriophage genus, unifies viruses of halophilic archaea and thermophilic bacteria within the novel family Sphaerolipoviridae. Arch of Virology, [Epub ahead of print]