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ReviewBiophysical reviews2018

States of phage T3/T7 capsids: buoyant density centrifugation and cryo-EM.

Philip Serwer, Elena T Wright, Borries Demeler, Wen Jiang

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Review in Biophysical reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Single-particle virology.Biophysical reviews · 2020
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  3. A Histogram-based Outlier Profile for Atomic Structures Derived from Cryo-Electron Microscopy.ACM-BCB ... ... : the ... ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine · 2019
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4 authors.

Philip SerwerDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX, 78229-3900, USA. serwer@uthscsa.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8990-3251
Elena T WrightDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX, 78229-3900, USA.
Borries DemelerDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX, 78229-3900, USA.
Wen JiangMarkey Center for Structural Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.

Funding

NIGMS NIH HHS 120600
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mature double-stranded DNA bacteriophages have capsids with symmetrical shells that typically resist disruption, as they must to survive in the wild. However, flexibility and associated dynamism assist function. We describe biochemistry-oriented procedures used to find previously obscure flexibility for capsids of the related phages, T3 and T7. The primary procedures are hydration-based buoyant density ultracentrifugation and purified particle-based cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). We review the buoyant density centrifugation in detail. The mature, stable T3/T7 capsid is a shell flexibility-derived conversion product of an initially assembled procapsid (capsid I). During DNA packaging, capsid I expands and loses a scaffolding protein to form capsid II. The following are observations made with capsid II. (1) The in vivo DNA packaging of wild type T3 generates capsid II that has a slight (1.4%), cryo-EM-detected hyper-expansion relative to the mature phage capsid. (2) DNA packaging in some altered conditions generates more extensive hyper-expansion of capsid II, initially detected by hydration-based preparative buoyant density centrifugation in Nycodenz density gradients. (3) Capsid contraction sometimes occurs, e.g., during quantized leakage of DNA from mature T3 capsids without a tail.

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Bacteriophage assemblyCapsid flexibilityDNA injectionDNA packagingNycodenz

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PMID29243090
PMCPMC5899731

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