Homologous Capsid Proteins Testify to the Common Ancestry of Retroviruses, Caulimoviruses, Pseudoviruses, and Metaviruses

Mart Krupovic; Eugene V Koonin

doi:10.1128/JVI.00210-17

Homologous Capsid Proteins Testify to the Common Ancestry of Retroviruses, Caulimoviruses, Pseudoviruses, and Metaviruses

J Virol. 2017 May 26;91(12):e00210-17. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00210-17. Print 2017 Jun 15.

Authors

Mart Krupovic¹, Eugene V Koonin²

Affiliations

¹ Unité Biologie Moléculaire du Gène Chez les Extrêmophiles, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France krupovic@pasteur.fr.
² National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Caulimoviridae; Metaviridae; Pseudoviridae; Retroviridae; Ty3/Gypsy and Ty1/Copia LTR retrotransposons; nucleocapsid proteins; reverse-transcribing viruses; structural polyprotein Gag; virus evolution.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

Capsid Proteins / chemistry
Capsid Proteins / genetics*
Conserved Sequence
Evolution, Molecular*
Models, Molecular
Phylogeny
Retroelements / genetics*
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid*
Viruses / genetics*

Substances

Capsid Proteins
Retroelements