Article
Functional refolding of the penetration protein on a non-enveloped virus.
Nature - 1 Feb 2021
Herrmann Tobias, Torres Raúl, Salgado Eric N, Berciu Cristina, Stoddard Daniel, Nicastro Daniela, Jenni Simon, Harrison Stephen C
Abstract excerpt
A non-enveloped virus requires a membrane lesion to deliver its genome into a target cell1. For rotaviruses, membrane perforation is a principal function of the viral outer-layer protein, VP42,3. Here we describe the use of electron cryomicroscopy to determine how VP4 performs this function and show that when activated by cleavage to VP8* and VP5*, VP4 can rearrange on the virion surface from an 'upright' to a...
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