Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-18-2014
Publication Title
PLoS ONE
Keywords
Lipids, Host cells, Virions, Sulfur, Cell membranes, Viral transmission and infection, Antimicrobial resistance, Antioxidants
ISSN
1932-6203
Volume
9
Issue/No.
11
First Page
e112134
Abstract
Annual Emiliania huxleyi blooms (along with other coccolithophorid species) play important roles in the global carbon and sulfur cycles. E. huxleyi blooms are routinely terminated by large, host-specific dsDNA viruses, (Emiliania huxleyi Viruses; EhVs), making these host-virus interactions a driving force behind their potential impact on global biogeochemical cycles. Given projected increases in sea surface temperature due to climate change, it is imperative to understand the effects of temperature on E. huxleyi’s susceptibility to viral infection and its production of climatically active dimethylated sulfur species (DSS). Here we demonstrate that a 3°C increase in temperature induces EhV-resistant phenotypes in three E. huxleyi strains and that successful virus infection impacts DSS pool sizes. We also examined cellular polar lipids, given their documented roles in regulating host-virus interactions in this system, and propose that alterations to membrane-bound surface receptors are responsible for the observed temperature-induced resistance. Our findings have potential implications for global biogeochemical cycles in a warming climate and for deciphering the particular mechanism(s) by which some E. huxleyi strains exhibit viral resistance.
Additional Comments
NSF grant #s: OCE-1061883, OCE-1061876
NSUWorks Citation
B. Jacob Kendrick, Giacomo R. DiTullio, Tyler Cyronak, James M. Fulton, Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, and Kay D. Bidle. 2014. Temperature-Induced Viral Resistance in Emiliania huxleyi (Prymnesiophyceae) .PLoS ONE , (11) : e112134 . https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1019.
ORCID ID
0000-0003-3556-7616
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0112134
Comments
©2014 Kendrick et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.