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The ambisense structure allows the virus to encode two proteins on opposite strands of RNA. Ambivirus genomes replicate using a rolling-circle mechanism and form a rod-like structure containing ribozymes in both sense and antisense orientations, similar to viroids—small, circular infectious agents that also utilize ribozymes.
An arenavirus is a bi- or trisegmented ambisense RNA virus that is a member of the family Arenaviridae. [1] [2] These viruses infect rodents and occasionally humans.A class of novel, highly divergent arenaviruses, properly known as reptarenaviruses, have also been discovered which infect snakes to produce inclusion body disease, mostly in boa constrictors.
RNA viruses can be further classified according to the sense or polarity of their RNA into negative-sense and positive-sense, or ambisense RNA viruses.Positive-sense viral RNA is similar to mRNA and thus can be immediately translated by the host cell.
In order to transcribe ambisense viruses, two rounds of transcription are performed: first, mRNA is produced directly from the genome; second, mRNA is created from the antigenome. All ambisense viruses contain a hairpin loop structure to stop transcription after the protein's mRNA has been transcribed. [14]
Bunyavirales is an order of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses with mainly tripartite genomes. Member viruses infect arthropods, plants, protozoans, and vertebrates. [2] It is the only order in the class Ellioviricetes. [1]
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Lassa virus structure and genome.Figure by Fehling et al., 2012 [13]. Lassa viruses [14] [15] are enveloped, single-stranded, bisegmented, ambisense RNA viruses.Their genome [16] is contained in two RNA segments that code for two proteins each, one in each sense, for a total of four viral proteins. [17]
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