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The transformation of a bacterium into a nucleated virocell reminds the viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis Volume 21, numéro 4, Juillet-Août 2017

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1 Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux,
75015, Paris, France
2 Institut intégré de biologie cellulaire,
Département de microbiologie, CNRS,
Université Paris-Saclay, France
3 Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, Inserm,
AP-HM, Urmite, IHU-Méditerranée
Infection, Marseille, France
* Corresponding author

To counteract the current paradigm that equates the virus with the viral particle (the virion), one of us suggested a few years ago that a virus-infected cell should be considered as a virocell ([1] and references therein) (figure 1). In that perspective, viral factories produced by many viruses infecting eukaryotes could be considered as the nuclei of virocells (figure 1). Until now, it seemed that nucleated virocells were a peculiarity of the eukaryotic world. However, in a recent paper published [...]