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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Virology. 2015 Apr 8;0:487–497. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.055

Table 1.

Representative viruses with different T number classes having coat proteins with the HK97 fold.

Capsid T-
number
Maximum
diameter
(nm)
Family Unique properties References
T. maritima
encapsulin
1 24 60° rotation of E-loop (Sutter et al., 2008)
SsP2 3 32 Crenarchaeota provirus (Heinemann et al., 2011)
M. xanthus
encapsulin
3 32 (McHugh et al., 2014)
PfV encapsulin 3 36 Euryarchaeota (Akita et al., 2007)
029 3
Q=5
45 wide
54 long
P C-terminal addition of Big2 domain (Morais et al., 2005)
C1 4 50 P Insertion domain and additional
density across twofold axes
(Aksyuk et al., 2012)
P2 7d 60 M Also makes T=4 capsids (40 nm diameter) with P4 Sid (Dearborn et al., 2012)
Sf6 7/ 60 P I-domain (Parent et al., 2012b)
A 7/ 60 S (Lander et al., 2008)
T7 7* 60 P Frameshift produces C-terminal
extension in ~ 10% of proteins
(Agirrezabala et al., 2007;
Guo et al., 2014; lonel et al., 2011)
Syn5 7* 60 P Small I-domain (Gipson et al., 2014;
Pope et al., 2007)
SPP1 7/ 61 S Extended P-domain (White et al., 2012)
HSTV-1 7/ 62 P Infects Archaea (Pietila et al., 2013)
K1E/K1-5 7* 63 P C-terminal extension (Leiman et al., 2007)
Gifsy-2 7/ 63 Prophage (Effantin et al., 2010)
80a 7/ 63 S P-loop in P-domain involved in
threefold interactions
(Spilman et al., 2011)
P-SSP7 7* 65 P Long F-loop makes contact across
twofold axes, extended N-arm
(Liu et al., 2010)
TP901-1 7* 66 S (Bebeacua et al., 2013)
HK97 7/ 66 S Covalent crosslinks in mature
capsid
(Gertsman et al., 2009;
Helgstrand et al., 2003;
Wikoff et al., 2000)
BPP-1 7/ 67 P Altered topology, extended N-arm (Zhang et al., 2013)
CUS-3 7/ 69 P I-domain (Parent et al., 2014)
£15 7/ 70 P Altered topology (Baker et al., 2013;
Jiang et al., 2008)
CW02 7/ 70 P (Shen et al., 2012)
P22 7/ 71 P I-domain (Chen et al., 2011;
Parent et al., 2010a)
Basilisk 9 72 S (Grose et al., 2014)
SIO-2 12 80 S (Lander et al., 2012)
T5 13l 90 S (Effantin et al., 2006)
T4 13/
Q = 20
90 wide
200 long
M Insertion in E-loop and
separate protein for penton
position
(Fokine et al., 2005b)
Bellamy 13
Q = 24
95 wide
135 long
M Personal communication
Roger Hendrix
SPO1 16 108 M (Duda et al., 2006)
HSV-1 16 125 H Additional middle and upper
domains
(Baker et al., 2005;
Zhou et al., 2000)
PRV 16 125 H Additional middle and upper
domains
(Homa et al., 2013)
RRV 16 130 H Additional middle and upper
domains
(Zhou et al., 2014)
MCMV 16 131 H Additional middle and upper
domains
(Hui et al., 2013)
ϕM12 191 100 M (Stroupe et al., 2014)
N3 19* 119 M Personal communication
Roger Hendrix
PAU 25 130 M Personal communication
Roger Hendrix
ϕRSL1 27 123 M (Effantin et al., 2013)
PBS1 27 140 M Personal communication
Roger Hendrix
ϕKZ 27 145 M (Fokine et al., 2005a)
121Q 28* 140 M Personal communication
Roger Hendrix
Phage G 52* 185 M Personal communication
Roger Hendrix

P – Podovirdae; M – Myovirdae; S – Siphovirdae; H – Herspesvirdae; ‘-‘ Unclassified family

*

Skew class, but handedness was not determined

l – laevo

d – dextro