Cryo-EM structure of the bacteriophage T4 portal protein assembly at near-atomic resolution

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sun, Lei ^a   Zhang, Xinzheng ^a,d   Gao, Song ^b,e   Rao, Prashant A ^c   Padilla Sanchez, Victor ^b   Chen, Zhenguo ^a   Sun, Siyang ^a   Xiang, Ye ^a,f   Subramaniam, Sriram ^c   Rao, Venigalla B ^b   Rossmann, Michael G ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^e HUAIHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f School of Medicine Tsinghua University ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; GP20 PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE T4;

BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA PACKAGING; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; GENE PRODUCT; MYOVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

MIRIDAE; MYOVIRIDAE; PODOCARPUS LATIFOLIUS; SIPHOVIRIDAE;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CAPSID PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84936116751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8548     Document Type: Article

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