This family includes the major capsid protein of iridoviruses, chlorella virus and Spodoptera ascovirus, which are all dsDNA viruses with no RNA stage. This is the most abundant structural protein and can account for up to 45% of virion protein [1]. ...
This family includes the major capsid protein of iridoviruses, chlorella virus and Spodoptera ascovirus, which are all dsDNA viruses with no RNA stage. This is the most abundant structural protein and can account for up to 45% of virion protein [1]. In Chlorella virus PBCV-1 the major capsid protein is a glycoprotein [2]. The four families of large eukaryotic DNA viruses, Poxviridae, Asfarviridae, Iridoviridae, and Phycodnaviridae, are referred to collectively as nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses or NCLDV. The virions of different NCLDV have dramatically different structures. The major capsid proteins of iridoviruses and phycodnaviruses, both of which have icosahedral capsids surrounding an inner lipid membrane, showed a high level of sequence conservation. A more limited, but statistically significant sequence similarity was observed between these proteins and the major capsid protein (p72) of ASFV, which also has an icosahedral capsid. It was surprising, however, to find that all of these proteins shared a conserved domain with the poxvirus protein D13L, which is an integral virion component thought to form a scaffold for the formation of viral crescents and immature virion [3].
