Article
Particle Polymorphism Caused by Deletion of a Peptide Molecular Switch in a Quasiequivalent Icosahedral Virus
1 Jul 1998
Abstract excerpt
The capsid of flock house virus is composed of 180 copies of a single type of coat protein which forms a T=3 icosahedral shell. High-resolution structural analysis has shown that the protein subunits, although chemically identical, form different contacts across the twofold axes of the virus particle. Subunits that are related by icosahedral twofold symmetry form flat contacts, whereas subunits that are related...
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