Structure structure Members of
Phenuiviridae are enveloped viruses with helical
capsid morphology. Envelope
glycoproteins of these viruses are distributed with
icosahedral symmetry (T=12).
Genome Phenuiviridae is a
negative-sense single-stranded RNA virus family. Its genome is segmented into three pieces: L segment (encoding RNA-dependent RNA polymerase), M segment, and S segment. Multiple different proteins can be encoded on the M segment due to
leaky scanning by the
ribosome.
Life cycle RNA
transcripts are
capped through
cap snatching, but not
polyadenylated.
Translation is terminated by a
hairpin sequence at the end of each RNA transcript. == Taxonomy ==