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SUBMITTER: Agirrezabala X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4739775 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agirrezabala Xabier X Méndez-López Eduardo E Lasso Gorka G Sánchez-Pina M Amelia MA Aranda Miguel M Valle Mikel M
eLife 20151216
Flexible filamentous viruses include economically important plant pathogens. Their viral particles contain several hundred copies of a helically arrayed coat protein (CP) protecting a (+)ssRNA. We describe here a structure at 3.9 Å resolution, from electron cryomicroscopy, of Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV), a representative of the genus Potexvirus (family Alphaflexiviridae). Our results allow modeling of the CP and its interactions with viral RNA. The overall fold of PepMV CP resembles that of nucl ...[more]