title: Identification of structural similarities between putative transmission proteins of Polymyxa and Spongospora transmitted bymoviruses and furoviruses.
abstract: Comparison of amino acid sequence and hydropathy profiles shows conserved, structural similarities between the capsid readthrough protein of potato mop top virus (transmitted by Spongospora subterranea) and furovirus and bymovirus proteins implicated in transmission by Polymyxa spp. This suggests that these proteins have a common ancestry and are involved in a common biological process: virus transmission by plasmodiophorid fungi.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Dessens
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002213:Capsid / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009235:Myxomycetes / Q000821:virology*; D010942:Plant Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D017800:Potyvirus / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D014777:Virus Diseases
chemical_list: D014764:Viral Proteins