Publication Date:
2000-05-08
Description:
Human herpesviruses are large and structurally complex viruses that cause a variety of diseases. The three-dimensional structure of the herpesvirus capsid has been determined at 8.5 angstrom resolution by electron cryomicroscopy. More than 30 putative alpha helices were identified in the four proteins that make up the 0.2 billion-dalton shell. Some of these helices are located at domains that undergo conformational changes during capsid assembly and DNA packaging. The unique spatial arrangement of the heterotrimer at the local threefold positions accounts for the asymmetric interactions with adjacent capsid components and the unusual co-dependent folding of its subunits.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhou, Z H -- Dougherty, M -- Jakana, J -- He, J -- Rixon, F J -- Chiu, W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 May 5;288(5467):877-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10797014" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Capsid/*chemistry/*ultrastructure
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Capsid Proteins
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Cryoelectron Microscopy
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Herpesvirus 1, Human/chemistry/*ultrastructure
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Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Weight
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Quaternary
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
