Table 2.
Overview of viruses and their induced membranes*
Rubella virus | Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus | Murine hepatitis virus | Equine arteritis virus | Flock house virus | Tobacco mosaic virus | Vaccinia virus | |
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Family | Togaviridae | Coronaviridae | Coronaviridae | Arteriviridae | Nodaviridae | Unranked | Poxviridae |
Genus | Rubivirus | Coronavirus | Coronavirus | Arterivirus | Alphanodavirus | Tobamovirus | Orthopoxvirus |
Host | Humans | Humans | Mice | Horses and donkeys | Insects | Plants (Solanaceae) | Humans |
Disease | German measles | Severe acute respiratory syndrome | Epidemic murine illness | Asymptomatic and haemorrhagic fever | None | Plant diseases | Vaccine strain (smallpox vaccination) |
Enveloped | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Approximate genome size | 10,000 bases | 30,000 bases | 30,000 bases | 13,000 bases | 4,500 bases | 6,400 bases | 190,000 bases |
Approximate particle size | 70 nm | 80–160 nm | 80–160 nm | 40–60 nm | 30 nm | 300 × 18 nm | 360 × 270 × 250 nm |
Name of induced intracellular structures | Cytopathic vacuoles | Double-membrane vesicles | Double-membrane vesicles | Double-membrane vesicles | Spherule-like invaginations | Vesicular structures | Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) enclosure of replication site |
Description of induced intracellular structures | Spherule-lined cytopathic vacuoles | Vesicular structures that have a double membrane | Vesicular structures that have a double membrane | Perinuclear granules and double-membrane vesicles | Outer mitochondrial membrane that contains numerous spherule-like invaginations | Cytoplasmic inclusions | ER enclosure of replication site |
Approximate size of induced intracellular structures | 600–4,000 nm; spherules 50 nm | More than 200 nm per vesicle | 80–160 nm per vesicle | 80 nm per vesicle | 40–60 nm per invagination | Unknown | 1–2 μm |
Origin of induced intracellular structures | Endosomes and lysosomes | Probably rough ER or ER–Golgi intermediate compartment | Probably rough ER or ER–Golgi intermediate compartment | ER | Mitochondria | ER | ER |
Assumed function of induced intracellular structures | Viral RNA replication | Viral RNA replication | Viral RNA replication | Viral RNA replication | Viral RNA replication | Viral RNA replication | Viral DNA replication |
*Continued from Table 1. |