Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Near-atomic structure of a giant virus

  • Qianglin Fang,
  • Dongjie Zhu,
  • Irina Agarkova,
  • Jagat Adhikari,
  • Thomas Klose,
  • Yue Liu,
  • Zhenguo Chen,
  • Yingyuan Sun,
  • Michael L. Gross,
  • James L. Van Etten,
  • Xinzheng Zhang,
  • Michael G. Rossmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08319-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses are a group of viruses that infect many eukaryotic hosts. Here, the authors provide a 3.5 Å resolution icosahedrally-averaged capsid structure of Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1 and show how 1800 minor capsid proteins form a hexagonal network below the outer capsid shell.