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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Pornillos O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2840706 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell 20090611 7
The mature capsids of HIV and other retroviruses organize and package the viral genome and its associated enzymes for delivery into host cells. The HIV capsid is a fullerene cone: a variably curved, closed shell composed of approximately 250 hexamers and exactly 12 pentamers of the viral CA protein. We devised methods for isolating soluble, assembly-competent CA hexamers and derived four crystallographically independent models that define the structure of this capsid assembly unit at atomic reso ...[more]