Family Papovaviridae


Compiled for the VIth ICTV Report by Frisque RJ, Barbanti-Brodano G, Crawford LV, Gardner SD, Howley PM, Orth G, Shah KV, va der Noordaa J, zur Hausen H


Taxonomic Structure of the Family
ICTVdB - Description of the Family

References cited in the VIth ICTV Report

Boroweic JA, Dean FB, Bullock PA, Hurwitz J (1990) Binding and unwinding - how T antigen engages the SV40 origin of DNA replication. Cell 60: 181-184

Buchman AR, Burnett L, Berg P (1981) The SV40 nucleotide sequence. In: Tooze J (ed) DNA tumor viruses, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York pp 799-841

Chan S-Y, Bernard H-U, Ong C-K, Chan S-P, Hofmann B, Delius H (1992) Phylogenetic analysis of 48 papillomavirus types and 28 subtypes and variants: a showcase for the molecular evolution of DNA viruses. J Virol 66: 5714-5725

Chen EY, Howley PM, Levinson AD, Seeburg PH (1982) The primary structure and genetic organization of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 genome. Nature 299: 529-534

Eckhart W (1991) Polyomavirinae and their replication. In Fields & Knipe (eds) Fundamental virology, 2nd edn. Raven Press, New York, pp 727-741

Fanning E (1992) Simian virus 40 large T antigen: the puzzle, the pieces, and the emerging picture. J Virol 66: 1289-1293

Frisque RJ, Bream GL, Cannella MT (1984) Human polyomavirus JC virus genome. J Virol 51: 458-469

Giri I, Danos O, Yaniv M (1985) Genomic structure of the cottontail rabbit (Shope) papillomavirus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 82: 1580-1584

Griffin BE, Soeda E, Barrell BG, Staden R (1981) Sequences and analysis of polyoma virus DNA. In Tooze J (ed) DNA tumor viruses, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, pp 843-910

Lambert PF (1991) Papillomavirus DNA replication. J Virol 65:3417-3420

Meyers C, Frattini MG, Hudson JB, Laimins LA (1992) Biosynthesis of human papillomavirus from a continuous cell line upon epithelial differentiation. Science 257: 971-973

Salunke DM, Caspar DLD, Garcea RL (1986) Self-assembly of purified polyomavirus capsid protein VP1. Cell 46: 895-904

Salzman NP (ed) (1986) The Papovaviridae, the polyomaviruses, vol 1. Plenum Press, New York

Salzman NP, Howley PM (eds) (1987) The Papovaviridae, the papillomaviruses, vol 2. Plenum Press, New York

Villarreal LP (ed) (1989) Common mechanisms of transformation by small DNA tumor viruses. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC

zur Hausen H (1991) Human papillomaviruses in the pathogenesis of anogenital cancer. Virology 184: 9-13


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