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SUBMITTER: Oh B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4044616 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oh Bonnie B Moyer Crystal L CL Hendrix Roger W RW Duda Robert L RL
Virology 20140410
The 102 residue N-terminal extension of the HK97 major capsid protein, the delta domain, is normally present during the assembly of immature HK97 procapsids, but it is removed during maturation like well-known internal scaffolding proteins of other tailed phages and herpesviruses. The delta domain also shares other unusual properties usually found in other viral and phage scaffolding proteins, including its location on the inside of the capsid, a high predicted and measured α-helical content, an ...[more]