Mart Krupovic, Matthew B. Sullivan, Charlotte Guyomar, Carolina Megumi Mizuno, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Reynald Gillet, Régis Lavigne, Patrick Forterre, Simon Roux, Krupovic, Mart, Remodelage de la membrane cytoplasmique par les virus enveloppés d'archées - - ENVIRA2017 - ANR-17-CE15-0005 - AAPG2017 - VALID, Virus-X: Viral Metagenomics for Innovation Value - Virus-X - - H20202016-04-01 - 2020-03-31 - 685778 - VALID, Supporting transnational mobility within the European life sciences by cofunding of the EMBO Fellowship Programme - LTFCOFUND2013 - - EC:FP7:PEOPLE2014-11-10 - 2018-08-09 - 609409 - VALID, Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles (BMGE), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Department of Energy / Joint Genome Institute (DOE), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail (Irset), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Rennes (UR)-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Universidad Miguel Hernández [Elche] (UMH), Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), This work was supported by grant ERC UE 340440 to PF, Agence Nationale pour la Recherche grants to M.K. (#ANR-17-CE15–0005–01) and R.G. (Direction Générale de l’Armement, ANR-14-ASTR-0001), the Virus-X project (EU Horizon 2020, No. 685778) to M.K.. C.M.M. was supported by the European Molecular Biology Organization (ALTF 1562-2015) and Marie Curie Actions program from the European Commission (LTFCOFUND2013, GA-2013-609409), C.G. was supported by Direction Générale de l’Armement and Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, M.B.S. was supported by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (#3305, 3790) and National Science Foundation (OCE#1536989) awards. F.R.-V. was supported by grant VIREVO CGL2016-76273-P [AEI/FEDER, EU] (cofounded with FEDER funds). The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231., We thank Fanny Demay for the technical assistance and Sophie Chat for help with electron microscopy., ANR-17-CE15-0005,ENVIRA,Remodelage de la membrane cytoplasmique par les virus enveloppés d'archées(2017), European Project: 685778,H2020,H2020-LEIT-BIO-2015-1,Virus-X(2016), European Project: 609409,EC:FP7:PEOPLE,FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND,LTFCOFUND2013(2014), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), and Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )
Viruses modulate ecosystems by directly altering host metabolisms through auxiliary metabolic genes. However, viral genomes are not known to encode the core components of translation machinery, such as ribosomal proteins (RPs). Here, using reference genomes and global-scale viral metagenomic datasets, we identify 14 different RPs across viral genomes arising from cultivated viral isolates and metagenome-assembled viruses. Viruses tend to encode dynamic RPs, easily exchangeable between ribosomes, suggesting these proteins can replace cellular versions in host ribosomes. Functional assays confirm that the two most common virus-encoded RPs, bS21 and bL12, are incorporated into 70S ribosomes when expressed in Escherichia coli. Ecological distribution of virus-encoded RPs suggests some level of ecosystem adaptations as aquatic viruses and viruses of animal-associated bacteria are enriched for different subsets of RPs. Finally, RP genes are under purifying selection and thus likely retained an important function after being horizontally transferred into virus genomes., Viruses can encode genes that regulate the host's translational machinery to their advantage. Here, the authors show that viruses encode ribosomal proteins that can be incorporated into the host’s ribosome and may affect translation.