Morphological and Taxonomic Properties of Tokyovirus, the First Marseilleviridae Member Isolated from Japan.

ABSTRACT: Members of the Marseilleviridae family are large DNA viruses with icosahedral particle structures that infect Acanthamoeba cells. The first Marseillevirus to be discovered was isolated in 2009. Since then, several other members of the Marseilleviridae family have been reported, including Lausannevirus, Senegalvirus, Cannes 8 virus, Insectomime virus, Tunisvirus, Melbournevirus, Port-Miou virus, and Brazilian Marseillevirus, which have been isolated from Europe, Africa, Australia, and South America. The morphological and genomic properties of a new Marseilleviridae family member, Tokyovirus, discovered in a water/soil sample from a Japanese river in Tokyo, were described in the present study. Tokyovirus possesses icosahedral particles of up to 200 nm in diameter, as revealed by a transmissi

SUBMITTER: Takemura M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5158117 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature