Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Structural insight into Marburg virus nucleoprotein–RNA complex formation

  • Yoko Fujita-Fujiharu,
  • Yukihiko Sugita,
  • Yuki Takamatsu,
  • Kazuya Houri,
  • Manabu Igarashi,
  • Yukiko Muramoto,
  • Masahiro Nakano,
  • Yugo Tsunoda,
  • Ichiro Taniguchi,
  • Stephan Becker,
  • Takeshi Noda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28802-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. Here, the authors determine the structure of Marburg virus nucleoprotein–RNA complex by cryo-electron microscopy and provide mechanistic insight into the helical assembly of the nucleocapsid.