Intermediates in the assembly pathway of the double-stranded RNA virus φ6

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 4477-4487

  Butcher, S J ^a,c   Dokland, T ^a,d   Ojala, P M ^b,e   Bamford, D H ^b   Fuller, S D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; Enveloped virus assembly; phi6; Polymerase complex; Three dimensional image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REOVIRUS; RNA REPLICATION; RNA VIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI 6; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MIRIDAE; REOVIRIDAE; REOVIRUS SP.; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0030872369     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.14.4477     Document Type: Article

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