Structure of the immature retroviral capsid at 8Å resolution by cryo-electron microscopy

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7407, 2012, Pages 385-389

  Bharat, Tanmay A M ^a   Davey, Norman E ^a   Ulbrich, Pavel ^b   Riches, James D ^a   De Marco, Alex ^a   Rumlova, Michaela ^c   Sachse, Carsten ^a   Ruml, Tomas ^b   Briggs, John A G ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; GAG PROTEIN;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MATURATION; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMATURE VIRUS; MASON PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETROVIRAL CAPSID; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

CAPSID; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

EID: 84863982480     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11169     Document Type: Article

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