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Subassemblies and Asymmetry in Assembly of Herpes Simplex Virus Procapsid
7 Oct 2015
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: The herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) capsid is a massive particle (~200 MDa; 1,250-Å diameter) with T=16 icosahedral symmetry. It initially assembles as a procapsid with ~4,000 protein subunits of 11 different kinds. The procapsid undergoes major changes in structure and composition as it matures, a process driven by proteolysis and expulsion of the internal scaffolding protein. Assembly also relies on...
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