Eukaryotic-Like Virus Budding in Archaea

Similar to many eukaryotic viruses (and unlike bacteriophages), viruses infecting archaea are often encased in lipid-containing envelopes. However, the mechanisms of their morphogenesis and egress remain unexplored. Here, we used dual-axis electron tomography (ET) to characterize the morphogenesis o...

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Main Authors: Emmanuelle R. J. Quemin, Petr Chlanda, Martin Sachse, Patrick Forterre, David Prangishvili, Mart Krupovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-09-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/5/e01439-16