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ArticleJournal of virology2011

Poliovirus RNA is released from the capsid near a twofold symmetry axis.

Mihnea Bostina, Hazel Levy, David J Filman, James M Hogle

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Article in Journal of virology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers.

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100citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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100 citing papers in PubMed, 147 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mihnea BostinaDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Hazel Levy
David J Filman
James M Hogle
Harvard University · US

Funding

Structural Analysis of Enterovirus Cell Entry PathwaysR01AI020566 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI HOGLE, JAMES M · 1985 to 2018
$9.0M
Electron microscopy studies of novel poliovirus genome-releasing intermediatesF32AI081427 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI LEVY, HAZEL C · 2009 to 2010
$102k
NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI081427NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI020566NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI20566
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After recognizing and binding to its host cell, poliovirus (like other nonenveloped viruses) faces the challenge of translocating its genome across a cellular membrane and into the cytoplasm. To avoid entanglement with the capsid, the RNA must exit via a single site on the virion surface. However, the mechanism by which a single site is selected (from among 60 equivalents) is unknown; and until now, even its location on the virion surface has been controversial. To help to elucidate the mechanism of infection, we have used single-particle cryo-electron microscopy and tomography to reconstruct conformationally altered intermediates that are formed by the poliovirion at various stages of the poliovirus infection process. Recently, we reported icosahedrally symmetric structures for two forms of the end-state 80S empty capsid particle. Surprisingly, RNA was frequently visible near the capsid; and in a subset of the virions, RNA was seen on both the inside and outside of the capsid, caught in the act of exiting. To visualize RNA exiting, we have now determined asymmetric reconstructions from that subset, using both single-particle cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomographic methods, producing independent reconstructions at ∼50-Å resolution. Contrary to predictions in the literature, the footprint of RNA on the capsid surface is located close to a viral 2-fold axis, covering a slot-shaped area of reduced density that is present in both of the symmetrized 80S reconstructions and which extends by about 20 Å away from the 2-fold axis toward each neighboring 5-fold axis.

Indexed as

Virus InternalizationCapsidCryoelectron MicroscopyElectron Microscope TomographyHeLa CellsHumansPoliovirusRNA, ViralVirionRNA, Viral

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PMID20980499
PMCPMC3020038
OpenAlexW2140975932

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