Adintoviruses: a proposed animal-tropic family of midsize eukaryotic linear dsDNA (MELD) viruses.

ABSTRACT: Polintons (also known as Mavericks) were initially identified as a widespread class of eukaryotic transposons named for their hallmark type B DNA polymerase and retrovirus-like integrase genes. It has since been recognized that many polintons encode possible capsid proteins and viral genome-packaging ATPases similar to those of a diverse range of double-stranded DNA viruses. This supports the inference that at least some polintons are actually viruses capable of cell-to-cell spread. At present, there are no polinton-associated capsid protein genes annotated in public sequence databases. To rectify this deficiency, we used a data-mining approach to investigate the distribution and gene content of polinton-like elements and related DNA viruses in animal genomic and metagenomic

SUBMITTER: Starrett GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8502044 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature