Journal article
Traces of ATCV-1 associated with laboratory component contamination
University of Copenhagen1
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark2
Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark3
Integrative Systems Biology, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark4
Metagenomics, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark5
Statens Serum Institut6
Yolken et al. (1) claim detection of Acanthocystis turfacea chlorella virus 1 (ATCV-1, gi119953744) in the normal human oropharyngeal viral flora and associate it with altered cognitive function. However, the reported presence of a freshwater algae virus, previously not known to infect other species, was based on a few sequence reads homologous to ATCV-1 identified with BLASTn.
These reads span relatively few bases (97–698 bp) per sample, dispersed over a minor fraction (0.03–0.24%) of the 288 kb ATCV-1 genome.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | National Academy of Sciences |
Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | E925-6 |
ISSN: | 10916490 and 00278424 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1423756112 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-5042-574X , 0000-0001-6615-1141 , Gonzalez-Izarzugaza, Jose Maria , 0000-0003-2727-1903 , 0000-0002-3768-9185 , 0000-0002-3081-3702 , 0000-0002-7081-6748 and 0000-0002-1890-2702 |