Insight into the Ebola virus nucleocapsid assembly mechanism: crystal structure of Ebola virus nucleoprotein core domain at 1.8 Å resolution

Protein and Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 351-362

  Dong, Shishang ^a,b   Yang, Peng ^a,b   Li, Guobang ^a,b   Liu, Baocheng ^a,b   Wang, Wenming ^a,b   Liu, Xiang ^b   Xia, Boran ^b   Yang, Cheng ^a,b   Lou, Zhiyong ^a   Guo, Yu ^a,b   Rao, Zihe ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biotechnology and Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

assembly mechanism; crystal structure; Ebola virus; Filoviridae; nucleocapsid; nucleoprotein

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EBOLAVIRUS; HUMANS; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84937759993     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-015-0163-3     Document Type: Article

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