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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2015

Assembly Pathway of Hepatitis B Core Virus-like Particles from Genetically Fused Dimers.

Kris Holmes, Dale A Shepherd, Alison E Ashcroft, Mike Whelan, David J Rowlands, Nicola J Stonehouse

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Multiple Pathways in Capsid Assembly.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018
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  9. Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Completion Occurs through Error Correction.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kris HolmesFrom the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom and.
Dale A ShepherdFrom the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom and.
Alison E AshcroftFrom the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom and.
Mike WhelaniQur Ltd, London Bioscience Innovation Centre, 2 Royal College Street, London NW1 0NH, United Kingdom.
David J RowlandsFrom the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom and.
Nicola J StonehouseFrom the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom and n.j.stonehouse@leeds.ac.uk.
University of Leeds · GBInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GBLondon Centre for Nanotechnology · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E012558/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macromolecular complexes are responsible for many key biological processes. However, in most cases details of the assembly/disassembly of such complexes are unknown at the molecular level, as the low abundance and transient nature of assembly intermediates make analysis challenging. The assembly of virus capsids is an example of such a process. The hepatitis B virus capsid (core) can be composed of either 90 or 120 dimers of coat protein. Previous studies have proposed a trimer of dimers as an important intermediate species in assembly, acting to nucleate further assembly by dimer addition. Using novel genetically-fused coat protein dimers, we have been able to trap higher-order assembly intermediates and to demonstrate for the first time that both dimeric and trimeric complexes are on pathway to virus-like particle (capsid) formation.

Indexed as

CapsidCapsid ProteinsDimerizationHepatitis B virusModels, MolecularVirionVirus AssemblyCapsid Proteinscapsidfused dimerhepatitis virusmass spectrometry (MS)protein assemblyprotein self-assemblytandem corevirus assembly

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PMID25953902
PMCPMC4481223
OpenAlexW1756592597

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