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ArticleScientific reports2017

In vitro assembly of the Rous Sarcoma Virus capsid protein into hexamer tubes at physiological temperature.

Soumeya A Jaballah, Graham D Bailey, Ambroise Desfosses, Jaekyung Hyun, Alok K Mitra, Richard L Kingston

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Soumeya A JaballahSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand.
Graham D BaileySchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand.
Ambroise DesfossesSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand.
Jaekyung HyunSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand.
Alok K MitraSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand.
Richard L KingstonSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand. rl.kingston@auckland.ac.nz.ORCID 0000-0003-0893-6973
University of Auckland · NZUniversity of Nottingham · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During a proteolytically-driven maturation process, the orthoretroviral capsid protein (CA) assembles to form the convex shell that surrounds the viral genome. In some orthoretroviruses, including Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV), CA carries a short and hydrophobic spacer peptide (SP) at its C-terminus early in the maturation process, which is progressively removed as maturation proceeds. In this work, we show that RSV CA assembles in vitro at near-physiological temperatures, forming hexamer tubes that effectively model the mature capsid surface. Tube assembly is strongly influenced by electrostatic effects, and is a nucleated process that remains thermodynamically favored at lower temperatures, but is effectively arrested by the large Gibbs energy barrier associated with nucleation. RSV CA tubes are multi-layered, being formed by nested and concentric tubes of capsid hexamers. However the spacer peptide acts as a layering determinant during tube assembly. If only a minor fraction of CA-SP is present, multi-layered tube formation is blocked, and single-layered tubes predominate. This likely prevents formation of biologically aberrant multi-layered capsids in the virion. The generation of single-layered hexamer tubes facilitated 3D helical image reconstruction from cryo-electron microscopy data, revealing the basic tube architecture.

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Virus AssemblyCapsid ProteinsImaging, Three-DimensionalIn Vitro TechniquesModels, MolecularOsmolar ConcentrationProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationProteolysisRous sarcoma virusStatic ElectricityTemperatureCapsid Proteins

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PMID28588198
PMCPMC5460288
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