ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Simuloviridae 2023
Abstract
The family Simuloviridae includes tailless icosahedral viruses with an internal lipid membrane. The capsid is constructed from two major capsid proteins, both with a single jelly-roll fold. The genome is a circular dsDNA molecule of 16–19 kb. All members infect halophilic archaea in the class Halobacteria (phylum Euryarchaeota) and are temperate viruses, their proviruses residing in host cells as extrachromosomal episomes. Once the lytic life cycle is triggered, production of virions causes cell lysis. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Simuloviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/simuloviridae.
Main Authors
Format
Articles
Review article
Published
2023
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Microbiology Society
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202304272743Use this for linking
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0022-1317
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001841
Language
English
Published in
Journal of General Virology
Citation
- Liu, Y., Du, S., Chen, X., Dyall-Smith, M., Jalasvuori, M., & Oksanen, H. M. (2023). ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Simuloviridae 2023. Journal of General Virology, 104(4), Article 001841. https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001841
License
Additional information about funding
Production of this Profile, the ICTV Report and associated resources was supported by the Microbiology Society.
Copyright© 2023 The Authors