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00.042. Microviridae

References (VIIIth ICTV Report)

Bernal R.A., Hafenstein S., Olson N.H., Bowman, V.D., Chipman P.R., Baker T.S., Fane, B.A. and Rossmann, M.G. (2003). Structural studies of bacteriophage alpha3 assembly. J Mol Biol., 325, 11-24.

Bernhardt, T.G., Struck, D.K. and Young, R. (2001). The lysis protein E of øX174 is a specific inhibitor of the mraY-catalyzed step in peptidoglycan biosynthesis. J. Biol. Chem., 276, 6093-6097.

Brentlinger K., Hafenstein, S., Novak, C.R., Fane, B.A., Birgon, R., McKenna, R., and Agbandje-McKenna, M. (2002). Microviridae, a family divided. Isolation, characterization and genome sequence of a ϕMH2K, a bacteriophage of the obligate intracellular parasitic bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. J. Bacteriol., 184, 1089-1094.

Bull J.J., Badgett, M.R., Wichman H.A., Huelsenbeck, J.P., Hillis, D.M., Gulati, A., Ho, C. and Molineux, I.J. (1997). Exceptional convergent evolution in a virus. Genetics, 147, 1497-507.

Burch, A.D. and Fane, B.A. (2000). Foreign and chimeric external scaffolding proteins as inhibitors of Microviridae morphogenesis. J. Virol., 74, 9347-9352.

Chipman, P.R., Agbandje-McKenna, M., Renaudin, J., Baker, T.S. and McKenna, R. (1998). Structural analysis of the Spiroplasma virus, SpV4, implications for evolutionary variation to obtain host diversity among the Microviridae. Structure, 6, 135-145.

Dokland, T., Bernal, R.A., Burch, A., Pletnev, S., Fane, B.A. and Rossmann, M.G. (1999). The role of scaffolding proteins in the assembly of the small, single-stranded DNA virus ϕX174. J. Mol. Biol., 288, 595-608.

Dokland, T., McKenna, R., flag, L.L., Bowman, B.R., Incardona, N.L., Fane, B.A. and Rossmann, M.G. (1997). Atomic structure of single-stranded DNA bacteriophage phi X174 and its functional implications. Nature, 389, 308-313.

Everson, J.S., Garner, S., Fane, B.A., Liu, L., Lambden, P.R. and Clarke, I.N. (2002). Biological properties and cell tropism of Chp2, a bacteriophage of the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydophila abortus. J. Bacteriol., 184, 2748-2754.

Fane, B.A. and Prevelige, P.E. Jr. (2003). Mechanism of scaffolding-assisted viral assembly. Adv. Prot. Chem., 64, 259-299.

Hafenstein, S. and Fane B.A. (2002). ϕX174 genome-capsid interactions influence the biophysical properties of the virion: evidence for a scaffolding-like function for the genome during the final stages of morphogenesis. J. Virol., 76, 5350-5356.

Hayashi, M., Aoyama, A., Richardson, D.L. and Hayashi, M.N. (1988). Biology of the bacteriophage ϕX174. pp. 1-71. In: The Bacteriophages, Vol. 2, (R., Calendar, ed), pp. 1-71. Plenum Publishing, New York.

Hendrix, R.W., Lawrence, J.G., Hatfull, G.F. and Casjens, S. (2000). The origins and ongoing evolution of viruses. Trends Microbiol., 8, 504-508.

Hsia, R.C., Ting, L.M. and Bavoil, P.M. (2000). Microvirus of Chlamydia psittaci strain guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis: isolation and molecular characterization. Microbiology, 146, 1651-1660.

Liu, B.L., Everson, J. S., Fane, B.A., Giannikopoulou, P., Vretou, E., Lambden, P.R. and Clarke I.N. (2000). The molecular characterization of a bacteriophage (Chp2) from Chlamydia psittaci. J. Virol., 74, 3646 -3649.

McKenna, R., Ilag, L.L. and Rossmann, M.G. (1994). Analysis of the single-stranded DNA bacteriophage ϕX174 at a resolution of 3.0 A. J. Mol. Biol., 237, 517-543.

Renaudin, J., Paracel, M.C. and Bove, J.M. (1987). Spiroplasma virus 4: nucleotide sequence of the viral DNA, regulatory signals and the proposed genome organization. J. Bacteriol., 169, 4950-4961.

Storey, C.C., Lusher, M. and Richmond, S.J. (1989). Analysis of the complete nucleotide sequence of Chpl, a phage which infects Chlamydia psittaci. J. Gen. Virol., 70, 3381-3390.

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Species List from the 8th ICTV Report
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