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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Finnlakeviridae

Hanna M. OksanenSari Susanna MäntynenSari Susanna MäntynenElina LaantoElina LaantoLotta-riina SundbergMinna M. Poranen

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0301 basic medicinebiology030106 microbiologyDNA virusbiology.organism_classificationVirologyGenome6. Clean waterVirus3. Good health03 medical and health scienceschemistry.chemical_compound030104 developmental biologyCapsidchemistryVirologyBacterial virusFlavobacteriumVirus classificationDNA

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Finnlakeviridae is a family of icosahedral, internal membrane-containing bacterial viruses with circular, single-stranded DNA genomes. The family includes the genus, Finnlakevirus, with the species, Flavobacterium virus FLiP. Flavobacterium phage FLiP was isolated with its Gram-negative host bacterium from a boreal freshwater habitat in Central Finland in 2010. It is the first described single-stranded DNA virus with an internal membrane and shares minimal sequence similarity with other known viruses. The virion organization (pseudo T=21 dextro) and major capsid protein fold (double-β-barrel) resemble those of Pseudoalteromonas phage PM2 (family Corticoviridae), which has a double-stranded DNA genome. A similar major capsid protein fold is also found in other double-stranded DNA viruses in the kingdom Bamfordvirae. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) report on the family Finnlakeviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/finnlakeviridae.

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2020-09-01Journal of General Virology
https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001488