Capsid expansion mechanism of bacteriophage T7 revealed by multistate atomic models derived from cryo-EM reconstructions

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

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages E4606-E4614

  Guo, Fei ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Fang, Ping An ^a   Zhang, Qinfen ^b,c   Wright, Elena T ^d   Wu, Weimin ^a   Zhang, Ci ^a   Vago, Frank ^a   Ren, Yue ^a   Jakana, Joanita ^c   Chiu, Wah ^c   Serwer, Philip ^d   Jiang, Wen ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage T7 maturation; DNA packaging intermediates; Noncovalent topological linking; Procapsid; Single particle cryo EM

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA PACKAGING; DNA VIRUS; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; VIRUS CAPSID; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T7; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA PACKAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84908434273     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407020111     Document Type: Article

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