The nucleoprotein of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus processes a stable hexameric ring to facilitate RNA encapsidation

Protein and Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 445-455

  Zhou, Honggang ^a,b   Sun, Yuna ^d   Wang, Ying ^e   Liu, Min ^a,e   Liu, Chao ^a,e   Wang, Wenming ^a,e   Liu, Xiang ^e   Li, Le ^a,e   Deng, Fei ^c   Wang, Hualin ^c   Guo, Yu ^a   Lou, Zhiyong ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^e High throughput Molecular Drug Discovery Center   (China)

Author keywords

crystal structure; nucleoprotein; oligomer; RNP assembly; SFTSV

Indexed keywords

VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA ENCAPSIDATION; RNA PROCESSING; SEVERE FEVER WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME VIRUS;

BUNYAVIRIDAE; PHLEBOVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84878952353     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-013-3901-4     Document Type: Article

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