Small viruses reveal bidirectional evolution between HK97-fold viruses and encapsulins via procapsids
Mining environmental metagenomics data, the authors show that small HK97-fold-encoding viral genomes bridge Duplodnaviria viral capsids and cellular protein shells, revealing bidirectional evolution in which viral procapsids enable the transitions between viral and metabolic compartments.
Abelardo Aguilar, Ingrid Miranda-Pérez, Omer Nadel et al.
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