CryoEM model of Enterobacteria phage PRD1 capsid. PDB entry 1gw7[1]
Virus classification
(unranked):
Virus
Realm:
Varidnaviria
Kingdom:
Bamfordvirae
Phylum:
Preplasmiviricota
Class:
Tectiliviricetes
Order:
Kalamavirales
Family:
Tectiviridae
Genera
See text
Tectiviridae is a family of viruses with 10 species in five genera. Bacteria serve as natural hosts.[2][3] Tectiviruses have no head-tail structure, but are capable of producing tail-like tubes of ~ 60×10 nm upon adsorption or after chloroform treatment. The name is derived from Latin tectus (meaning 'covered').[4]
^San Martín C, Huiskonen JT, Bamford JK, Butcher SJ, Fuller SD, Bamford DH, Burnett RM (2002). "Minor proteins, mobile arms and membrane-capsid interactions in the bacteriophage PRD1 capsid". Nature Structural Biology. 9 (10): 756–63. doi:10.1038/nsb837. PMID 12219080. S2CID 32856328.
^"Viral Zone". ExPASy. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
^"Virus Taxonomy: 2020 Release". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). March 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^"ICTV Ninth Report; 2009 Taxonomy Release: Tectiviridae". ICTV. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
Bishop, M. H. Van Regenmortel, Claude M. Fauquet (Eds) 68.0.1. Tectivirus Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Viralzone: Tectivirus ICTV...
to eukaryotes early in eukaryotic history, via infection by a tectivirus or tectivirus-like virus of a bacterium that became a bacterial symbiont in a...