Structural basis for DNA recognition and loading into a viral packaging motor

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

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 811-816

  Büttner, Carina R ^a,e   Chechik, Maria ^a   Ortiz Lombardía, Miguel ^a,f   Smits, Callum ^a   Ebong, Ima Obong ^b   Chechik, Victor ^a   Jeschke, Gunnar ^c   Dykeman, Eric ^a   Benini, Stefano ^a,g   Robinson, Carol V ^b   Alonso, Juan C ^d   Antson, Alfred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^g FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage SPP1; DNA packaging; Virus assembly; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DNA PACKAGING; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIPHOVIRIDAE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

SIPHOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84856373698     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1110270109     Document Type: Article

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