ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Portogloboviridae

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Portogloboviridae.

David Prangishvili (1, 2) , Ying Liu (3) , Mart Krupovic (3) , Ictv Report Consortium

1 IP - Institut Pasteur [Paris]
2 TSU - Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
3 Virologie des archées - Archaeal Virology

Portogloboviridae is a family of viruses with circular, double-stranded DNA genomes of about 20 kbp. Their icosahedral virions have a diameter of 87 nm, and consist of an outer protein shell, an inner lipid layer and a nucleoprotein core wound up into a spherical coil. Portogloboviruses infect hyperthermophilic archaea of the genus Saccharolobus , order Sulfolobales and are presumably nonlytic. Portogloboviruses encode mini-CRISPR arrays which they use to compete against other co-infecting viruses. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Portogloboviridae , which is available at ictv.global/report/portogloboviridae.

Keywords: ICTV; taxonomy; Portogloboviridae

Domains: Virology

David Prangishvili, Ying Liu, Mart Krupovic, Ictv Report Consortium. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Portogloboviridae. Journal of General Virology, 2021, 102 (6), pp.001605. ⟨10.1099/jgv.0.001605⟩. ⟨pasteur-03265806⟩