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Crosslinking renders bacteriophage HK97 capsid maturation irreversible and effects an essential stabilization.
The EMBO journal - 6 Apr 2005
Ross Philip D, Cheng Naiqian, Conway James F, Firek Brian A, Hendrix Roger W, Duda Robert L, Steven Alasdair C
Abstract excerpt
In HK97 capsid maturation, structural change ('expansion') is accompanied by formation of covalent crosslinks, connecting residue K169 in the 'E-loop' of each subunit with N356 on another subunit. We show by complementation experiments with the K169Y mutant, which cannot crosslink, that crosslinking is an essential function. The precursor Prohead-II passes through three expansion intermediate (EI) states en route...
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