Electron cryotomography of measles virus reveals how matrix protein coats the ribonucleocapsid within intact virions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 18085-18090

  Liljeroos, Lassi ^a   Huiskonen, Juha T ^b   Ora, Ari ^a   Susi, Petri ^c   Butcher, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Image reconstruction; Subtomogram averaging

Indexed keywords

MATRIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON CRYOTOMOGRAPHY; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TOMOGRAPHY; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS RELEASE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEASLES VIRUS; NUCLEOCAPSID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TOMOGRAPHY; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIRION;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 81055141475     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105770108     Document Type: Article

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