1. Viruses
Non-cellular organisms
Premedical - biology

2. Non-cellular: viruses - Infectious particles
plant, animal, bacterial = bacteriophages
• virion = nucleic acid + protein coat (capsid)
and another envelope similar to membrane
(enveloped viruses)
• bacteriophage = icosahedra head + tail,
base plate, fibers

3. Enterobacteria phage T4 infects Escherichia coli
viral DNA injection

4. Icosahedral models, left to right: fivefold,
threefold, and twofold axes

5. CAPSID CONFIGURATION IN NAKED AND
ENVELOPED VIRUSES.
Capsid - protein shell
subunits - Capsomers

6. Capsids
Helical
Polyhedral

7. Tobacco mosaic virus

8. virus classification
• host specification: plant, animal, bacteria
• DNA a RNA virus: ds DNA, ss DNA, ds RNA,
pos ss RNA, neg ss RNA, rev trans diploid ss
RNA, rev trans circular dsDNA
• structure: symmetry helical, complex, icosahedral,
capsid, envelope, number of capsomer

9. ds DNA, ss DNA, ds RNA, ss RNA, rev trans diploid
ss RNA, rev trans circular dsDNA

11. Reverse transcriptase
= enzyme overwriting RNA to DNA
transcription
replication
reverse
transcription translation
RNA Protein
DNA

13. Retrovirus, Lentivirus, pos ssRNA-RT,
encapsulated: HIV-1, HIV-2

14. Viruses can reproduce only within a host cell
• Obligate intracellular parasites
• lack enzymes and ribosomes …
• only a limited range of host cells
– host specificity
• eukaryotic viruses
are tissue specific
• Lytic cycle – virulent viruses

15. Lytic cycle of virus reproduction
• adsorption virus to cell
• penetration virus or viral NA into cell
• replication, transcription and translation
•assembling new virus particles (self-assembly)
• transfer to daughter cells: effect on the cell:
death of the cell – lyses (hundreds or thousand)
cytopathy effect (exocytose)

17. Lysogenic - virogenic cycle
= integration of the viral nucleic acid into
the host genome as provirus (prophage)
• replication with the DNA of the host cell
• latent viruses – the cell is not damaged
• virus is transferred to daughter cells
• viruses as vectors of oncogeny

18. Temperate
phages
Latent
viruses

19. Tumor viruses - transformation of eukaryotic cells
to cancer cells
DNA viruses – oncogene
RNA viruses
= retroviruses

20. Prions
• degeneration brain disease
• infectious particles
• contain proteins, NA wasn‘t proved
• abnormal prion = product of mutated genes

21. Prion protein
- occurrence in two isoforms:
normal PrPC (C=cellular)
abnormal PrPSC (SC=scrapie)
– PrPC – prevalence of alpha helix a little beta
structure
– PrPSC – prevalence of beta structure
– presence of PrPSC induces PrPC change =
normal protein to abnormal - runs as chain

24. • hereditary disease
= gene mutation → abnormal protein
• transfer between species is rare,
but might be possible with a long period
of latency
• transfer from human to human: by
growth hormone, brain electrodes

25. Disease
They cause an infection in sheep
called scrapie and cattle
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
("mad cow" disease).

26. Human diseases
– Creutzfeld-Jacob disease: affection of the grey
brain cortex, severe neurological symptoms with
quickly proceeded dementia)
– kuru: Papua-New Guinea: disability of
movement coordination, paralysis, dementia –
disease is extension by ritual cannibalism

27. Neural degeneration in a
prion infection.
a slice from the brain of a
person who died of kuru
The large fluid-filled holes
are places where neurons
have died.

28. RNA viruses
Poliomyelitis - polio
Rhinitis – cold
Influenza – flu
Encefalitis
Rubella – measles Ger.
Parotitis - mumps
Morbilli – measles
Rabies
HIV-AIDS

29. DNA viry:
Adenoviruses - respiratory disease
conjunctivitis
gastroenteritis
Oral herpes - herpes simplex virus
infectious mononucleosis - Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
Smallpox - Variola major and minor
Human Papilomavirus - warts (verrucae), cancers of

30. Papillomavirus

31. Campbell, Neil A., Reece, Jane B., Cain Michael L., Jackson,
Robert B., Minorsky, Peter V., Biology, Benjamin-Cummings
Publishing Company, 1996 –2010.