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Characterization and function of putative substrate specificity domain in microvirus external scaffolding proteins.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2007
Uchiyama Asako, Chen Min, Fane Bentley A
Abstract excerpt
Microviruses (canonical members are bacteriophages phiX174, G4, and alpha3) are T=1 icosahedral virions with an assembly pathway mediated by two scaffolding proteins. The external scaffolding protein D plays a major role during morphogenesis, particularly in icosahedral shell formation. The results of previous studies, conducted with a cloned chimeric external scaffolding gene, suggest that the first alpha-helix...
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