Mechanisms of assembly and genome packaging in an RNA virus revealed by high-resolution cryo-EM

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hesketh, Emma L ^a   Meshcheriakova, Yulia ^b   Dent, Kyle C ^a,c   Saxena, Pooja ^b,d   Thompson, Rebecca F ^a   Cockburn, Joseph J ^a   Lomonossoff, George P ^b   Ranson, Neil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENOME; PROTEIN; RNA; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS ATTACHMENT; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; COMOVIRUS; CONFORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

COWPEA MOSAIC VIRUS; MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

COMOVIRUS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENOME; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84949675510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10113     Document Type: Article

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