Structure of the immature HIV-1 capsid in intact virus particles at 8.8 Å resolution

Nature

Volumn 517, Issue 7535, 2015, Pages 505-508

  Schur, Florian K M ^a,b   Hagen, Wim J H ^a   Rumlová, Michaela ^c,d   Ruml, Tomáš ^d   Müller, Barbara ^b   Kraüsslich, Hans Georg ^b   Briggs, John A G ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; CAPSID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS PARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; MASON PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION;

CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; HEK293 CELLS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84924189026     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13838     Document Type: Article

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