MdBVe46 is an envelope protein that is required for virion formation by Microplitis demolitor bracovirus.

ABSTRACT: Bracoviruses (BVs) are endogenized nudiviruses that braconid parasitoid wasps have coopted for functions in parasitizing hosts. Microplitis demolitor is a braconid wasp that produces Microplitis demolitor bracovirus (MdBV) and parasitizes the larval stage of the moth Chrysodeixis includens. Some BV core genes are homologs of genes also present in baculoviruses while others are only known from nudiviruses or other BVs. In this study, we had two main goals. The first was to separate MdBV virions into envelope and nucleocapsid fractions before proteomic analysis to identify core gene products that were preferentially associated with one fraction or the other. Results indicated that nearly all MdBV baculovirus-like gene products that were detected by our proteomic analysis had si

SUBMITTER: Arvin MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8515855 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature