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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
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- 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...
- Calafell, F. and Girones, R. (2001). "Potential
transmission of
human polyomaviruses through the
gastrointestinal tract after exposure to
virions or viral...
- 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...
- transformation. The IARC has
recently classified MCV as a
class 2A carcinogen.
Polyomaviruses are
small (~5400 base pair), non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses...
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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...
- to the
phylum Cossaviricota,
which also
includes papillomaviruses,
polyomaviruses, and bidnaviruses. A
variety of
diseases in
animals are
caused by parvoviruses...
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Mazzoni E,
Magagnoli F,
Maritati M (2019). "Footprints of BK and JC
polyomaviruses in
specimens from
females affected by
spontaneous abortion". Hum Reprod...
- but not all,
polyomaviruses are
oncoviruses capable of
inducing neoplastic transformation in some cells. In
oncogenic polyomaviruses, the
tumor antigens...