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Cellular receptors for
polyomaviruses are
sialic acid
residues of glycans,
commonly gangliosides. The
attachment of
polyomaviruses to host
cells is mediated...
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Contini C,
Vesce F,
Tognon M,
Martini F (2019). "Footprints of BK and JC
polyomaviruses in
specimens from
females affected by
spontaneous abortion". Hum Reprod...
- Calafell, F. and Girones, R. (2001). "Potential
transmission of
human polyomaviruses through the
gastrointestinal tract after exposure to
virions or viral...
- a
polyomavirus that is
found in both
monkeys and humans. Like
other polyomaviruses, SV40 is a DNA
virus that is
found to
cause tumors in
humans and animals...
- transformation. The IARC has
recently classified MCV as a
class 2A carcinogen.
Polyomaviruses are
small (~5400 base pair), non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses...
- double-stranded DNA genomes.: 96–99
Viral genomes are circular, as in the
polyomaviruses, or linear, as in the adenoviruses. The type of
nucleic acid is irrelevant...
-
covalently bound. The
major capsid protein VP1 that
comprises the s**** of
polyomaviruses is a self-****embling
multimer of 72
pentamers held
together by local...
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Among the
human polyomaviruses, KI is most
similar to WU virus. A 2010
proposed classification recommended the
division of the
polyomaviruses into
three genera...
-
polyomavirus family from a gene
called the agnogene.
Polyomaviruses in
which it
occurs include two
human polyomaviruses ****ociated with disease, BK
virus and JC virus...
- discovered, and one of four ****ociated with
human disease, out of 13
human polyomaviruses known as of the 2015
update to
polyomavirus taxonomy released by the...
