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ArticleNature communications2018

The 3.3 Å structure of a plant geminivirus using cryo-EM.

Emma L Hesketh, Keith Saunders, Chloe Fisher, Joran Potze, John Stanley, George P Lomonossoff, Neil A Ranson

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
16.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 97 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emma L HeskethAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4522-0061
Keith SaundersDepartment of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
Chloe FisherAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Joran PotzeDepartment of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
John StanleyDepartment of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
George P LomonossoffDepartment of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK. george.lomonossoff@jic.ac.uk.
Neil A RansonAstbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. n.a.ranson@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3640-5275
John Innes Centre · GBUniversity of Leeds · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/J004596/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/L020955/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/L021250/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/P012523/1Wellcome Trust 108466Wellcome Trust 108466/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Geminiviruses are major plant pathogens that threaten food security globally. They have a unique architecture built from two incomplete icosahedral particles, fused to form a geminate capsid. However, despite their importance to agricultural economies and fundamental biological interest, the details of how this is realized in 3D remain unknown. Here we report the structure of Ageratum yellow vein virus at 3.3 Å resolution, using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, together with an atomic model that shows that the N-terminus of the single capsid protein (CP) adopts three different conformations essential for building the interface between geminate halves. Our map also contains density for ~7 bases of single-stranded DNA bound to each CP, and we show that the interactions between the genome and CPs are different at the interface than in the rest of the capsid. With additional mutagenesis data, this suggests a central role for DNA binding-induced conformational change in directing the assembly of geminate capsids.

Indexed as

BegomovirusCapsidCapsid ProteinsCryoelectron MicroscopyDNA, Single-StrandedProtein ConformationCapsid ProteinsDNA, Single-Stranded

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PMID29915210
PMCPMC6006435
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