Haloarcula hispanica pleomorphic virus 1

Alphapleolipovirus HHPV1
Alphapleolipovirus virion (cross section)
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Monodnaviria
Kingdom: Trapavirae
Phylum: Saleviricota
Class: Huolimaviricetes
Order: Haloruvirales
Family: Pleolipoviridae
Genus: Alphapleolipovirus
Species:
Alphapleolipovirus HHPV1
Synonyms
  • Haloarcula hispanica pleomorphic virus 1
  • HHPV-1
  • Haloarcula virus HHPV(-)1

Alphapleolipovirus HHPV1, also known as Haloarcula hispanica pleomorphic virus 1 (HHPV-1) is a virus of the family Pleolipoviridae. It is a double stranded DNA virus that infects the halophilic archaeon Haloarcula hispanica.[1] It has a number of unique features unlike any previously described virus.[2][3]

  1. ^ Roine E, Kukkaro P, Paulin L, Laurinavicius S, Domanska A, Somerharju P, Bamford DH (2010) New, closely related haloarchaeal viral elements with different nucleic acid types. J Virol 84(7):3682–89
  2. ^ Pietilä MK, Atanasova NS, Manole V, Liljeroos L, Butcher SJ, Oksanen HM, Bamford DH (2012). "Virion Architecture Unifies Globally Distributed Pleolipoviruses Infecting Halophilic Archaea". Journal of Virology. 86 (9): 5067–79. doi:10.1128/JVI.06915-11. PMC 3347350. PMID 22357279.
  3. ^ Pietilä MK, Laurinavicius S, Sund J, Roine E, Bamford DH (2010). "The single-stranded DNA genome of novel archaeal virus Halorubrum pleomorphic virus 1 is enclosed in the envelope decorated with glycoprotein spikes". J Virol. 84 (2): 788–798. doi:10.1128/JVI.01347-09. PMC 2798366. PMID 19864380.