The virophage appears to be ~100
nanometers in diameter and to be enveloped. It preys on
Organic Lake phycodnaviruses, which in fact may rather belong to
Mimiviridae than to
Phycodnaviridae. The genome is double-stranded
DNA and is 26,421 base pairs in length.
Proteins encoded by it include the major capsid protein, a DNA packaging
ATPase, a putative
DNA polymerase/
primase and a N6 adenine specific DNA
methyltransferase. ==References==