HCIV-1 and Other Tailless Icosahedral Internal Membrane-Containing Viruses of the Family Sphaerolipoviridae

Members of the virus family Sphaerolipoviridae include both archaeal viruses and bacteriophages that possess a tailless icosahedral capsid with an internal membrane. The genera Alpha- and Betasphaerolipovirus comprise viruses that infect halophilic euryarchaea, whereas viruses of thermophilic Thermus bacteria belong to the genus Gammasphaerolipovirus. Both sequence-based and structural clustering of the major capsid proteins and ATPases of sphaerolipoviruses yield three distinct clades corresponding to these three genera. Conserved virion architectural principles observed in sphaerolipoviruses suggest that these viruses belong to the PRD1-adenovirus structural lineage. Here we focus on archaeal alphasphaerolipoviruses and their related putative proviruses. The highest sequence similarities among alphasphaerolipoviruses are observed in the core structural elements of their virions: the two major capsid proteins, the major membrane protein, and a putative packaging ATPase. A recently described tailless icosahedral haloarchaeal virus, Haloarcula californiae icosahedral virus 1 (HCIV-1), has a double-stranded DNA genome and an internal membrane lining the capsid. HCIV-1 shares significant similarities with the other tailless icosahedral internal membrane-containing haloarchaeal viruses of the family Sphaerolipoviridae. The proposal to include a new virus species, Haloarcula virus HCIV1, into the genus Alphasphaerolipovirus was submitted to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in 2016.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Viruses - 9(2017), 2 vom: 18. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Demina, Tatiana A [VerfasserIn]
Pietilä, Maija K [VerfasserIn]
Svirskaitė, Julija [VerfasserIn]
Ravantti, Janne J [VerfasserIn]
Atanasova, Nina S [VerfasserIn]
Bamford, Dennis H [VerfasserIn]
Oksanen, Hanna M [VerfasserIn]

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Adenosine Triphosphatases
Alphasphaerolipovirus
Archaeal virus
Capsid Proteins
EC 3.6.1.-
Halophilic archaea
Halovirus
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Journal Article
Membrane virus
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Sphaerolipoviridae
Structure-based viral lineage
Tailless icosahedral virus
Virus classification

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Date Completed 26.09.2017

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/v9020032

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NLM269132058