title: Large Tailed Spindle Viruses of Archaea: a New Way of Doing Viral Business.
abstract: Viruses of Archaea continue to surprise us. Archaeal viruses have revealed new morphologies, protein folds, and gene content. This is especially true for large spindle viruses, which infect only Archaea. We present a comparison of particle morphologies, major coat protein structures, and gene content among the five characterized large spindle viruses to elucidate defining characteristics. Structural similarities and a core set of genes support the grouping of the large spindle viruses into a new superfamily.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hochstein
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bollschweiler
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Engelhardt
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: C Martin
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA myoung@montana.edu.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D001105:Archaea / Q000821:virology*; D023641:Archaeal Viruses / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D005814:Genes, Viral / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D036022:Capsid Proteins