Editing DNA virus (section)

===<span class="anchor" id="Group I: dsDNA viruses"></span>Double-stranded DNA viruses===
The first Baltimore group of DNA viruses are those that have a double-stranded DNA genome. All dsDNA viruses have their mRNA synthesized in a three-step process. First, a [[transcription preinitiation complex]] binds to the DNA upstream of the site where transcription begins, allowing for the recruitment of a host [[RNA polymerase]]. Second, once the RNA polymerase is recruited, it uses the negative strand as a template for synthesizing mRNA strands. Third, the RNA polymerase terminates transcription upon reaching a specific signal, such as a [[polyadenylation]] site.<ref name=dsdna >{{cite web|title=dsDNA templated transcription|url=https://viralzone.expasy.org/1942|website=ViralZone|publisher=Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref><ref name=rampersad66 >[[#rampersad|Rampersad 2018]], p.&nbsp;66</ref><ref name=fermin36 >[[#fermin|Fermin 2018]], pp.&nbsp;36–40</ref>

dsDNA viruses make use of several mechanisms to replicate their genome. Bidirectional replication, in which two replication forks are established at a replication origin site and move in opposite directions of each other, is widely used.<ref name=bidi >{{cite web|title=dsDNA bidirectional replication|url=https://viralzone.expasy.org/1939|website=ViralZone|publisher=Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref> A rolling circle mechanism that produces linear strands while progressing in a loop around the circular genome is also common.<ref name=dsdnarcr >{{cite web|title=dsDNA rolling circle replication|url=https://viralzone.expasy.org/2676|website=ViralZone|publisher=Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Bernstein H, Bernstein C |date=5 July 1973 |title=Circular and branched circular concatenates as possible intermediates in bacteriophage T4 DNA replication |journal=J Mol Biol |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=355–361 |doi=10.1016/0022-2836(73)90443-9 |pmid=4580243}}</ref> Some dsDNA viruses use a strand displacement method whereby one strand is synthesized from a template strand, and a complementary strand is then synthesized from the prior synthesized strand, forming a dsDNA genome.<ref name=displace >{{cite web|title=DNA strand displacement replication|url=https://viralzone.expasy.org/1940|website=ViralZone|publisher=Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref> Lastly, some dsDNA viruses are replicated as part of a process called [[replicative transposition]] whereby a viral genome in a host cell's DNA is replicated to another part of a host genome.<ref name=reptrans>{{cite web|title=Replicative transposition|url=https://viralzone.expasy.org/4017|website=ViralZone|publisher=Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref>

dsDNA viruses can be subdivided between those that replicate in the [[cell nucleus]], and as such are relatively dependent on host cell machinery for transcription and replication, and those that replicate in the [[cytoplasm]], in which case they have evolved or acquired their own means of executing transcription and replication.<ref name=cann122 >[[#cann|Cann 2015]], pp.&nbsp;122–127</ref> dsDNA viruses are also commonly divided between tailed dsDNA viruses, referring to members of the realm ''Duplodnaviria'', usually the tailed bacteriophages of the order ''Caudovirales'', and tailless or non-tailed dsDNA viruses of the realm ''Varidnaviria''.<ref name=duplo >{{cite web|vauthors=Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH|title=Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal/primary taxonomic ranks, for dsDNA viruses encoding HK97-type major capsid proteins|url=https://ictv.global/ictv/proposals/2019.004G.zip|website=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=24 September 2020|language=en|format=docx|date=18 October 2019}}</ref><ref name=vari >{{cite web|vauthors=Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH|title=Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for DNA viruses encoding vertical jelly roll-type major capsid proteins|url=https://ictv.global/ictv/proposals/2019.003G.zip|website=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=24 September 2020|language=en|format=docx|date=18 October 2019}}</ref>