Notes on Family: Potyviridae
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flexuous filaments
Contents
- Members of this Family
- General Description
- Morphology
- Genome
- Genera in the Family
- All Known Sequences
- Curated Sequences
General Description
This family is characterised by its flexuous filamentous particles up to 900 nm in length and by the presence of characteristic inclusion bodies within infected plant cells. The genome or genome segments are translated into polyproteins which are subsequently processed by virus-encoded proteases into functional products.Morphology
Virions filamentous, not enveloped. Of one (650-900 nm) or two (500-600 and 200-300 nm) lengths x 12-15 nm in diameter. Symmetry helical. Pitch of helix 3.4 nm.Particles contain 5 % nucleic acid and 95 % protein.
Genomen
Linear, single stranded positive sense RNA. Genome monopartite or bipartite with total genome 8500-12000 nucleotides long. 3' terminus has a poly (A) tract. 5' terminus has (or probably has) a genome-linked protein (VPg).RNA molecules are translated into polyproteins, which are subsequently processed into a number of structural and non-structural proteins.
Genera in the Family
- Brambyvirus: monopartite, vector unknown; with AlkB domain in P1 protein
- Bymovirus: bipartite, fungus transmission
- Ipomovirus: monopartite, white fly transmission
- Macluravirus: monopartite, aphid transmission, particles less than 700 nm long
- Poacevirus: monopartite, mite transmission, small % nucleotide homology to rymoviruses and tritimoviruses and very long 5'-UTR
- Potyvirus: monopartite, aphid transmission, particles more than 700 nm long
- Rymovirus: monopartite, mite transmission (Abacarus hystrix)
- Tritimovirus: monopartite, mite transmission (Aceria tulipae), small % nucleotide homology to rymoviruses