An atomic model of brome mosaic virus using direct electron detection and real-space optimization

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Zhao ^a   Hryc, Corey F ^a   Bammes, Benjamin ^b   Afonine, Pavel V ^c   Jakana, Joanita ^a   Chen, Dong Hua ^a   Liu, Xiangan ^a   Baker, Matthew L ^a   Kao, Cheng ^d   Ludtke, Steven J ^a   Schmid, Michael F ^a   Adams, Paul D ^c,e   Chiu, Wah ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics Baylor College of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOBIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ELECTRON; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPY; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; RNA; VIRUS; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BROME MOSAIC VIRUS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DENSITY; ELECTRON; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; NONHUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; BROMOVIRUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BROME MOSAIC VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

BROMOVIRUS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84919444103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5808     Document Type: Article

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