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ArticleNature communications2019

Assembly of complex viruses exemplified by a halophilic euryarchaeal virus.

Luigi De Colibus, Elina Roine, Thomas S Walter, Serban L Ilca, Xiangxi Wang, Nan Wang, Alan M Roseman, Dennis Bamford, Juha T Huiskonen, David I Stuart

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Integrative Approaches to Study Virus Structures.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2024
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  6. Cellular homologs of the double jelly-roll major capsid proteins clarify the origins of an ancient virus kingdom.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  7. The LUCA and its complex virome.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2020
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  10. Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2020
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  12. A packing for A-form DNA in an icosahedral virus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Luigi De ColibusDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.
Elina RoineResearch Program in Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, Faculty of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8946-7018
Thomas S WalterDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0030-7235
Serban L IlcaDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-5917
Xiangxi WangNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China.
Nan WangNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China.
Alan M RosemanDivision of Molecular & Cellular Function, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, The Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Dennis BamfordResearch Program in Molecular and Integrative Biosciences, Faculty of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6438-8118
Juha T HuiskonenDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK. juha@strubi.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0348-7323
David I StuartDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK. dave@strubi.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-4210

Funding

Medical Research Council G1100525Medical Research Council MR/N00065X/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many of the largest known viruses belong to the PRD1-adeno structural lineage characterised by conserved pseudo-hexameric capsomers composed of three copies of a single major capsid protein (MCP). Here, by high-resolution cryo-EM analysis, we show that a class of archaeal viruses possess hetero-hexameric MCPs which mimic the PRD1-adeno lineage trimer. These hetero-hexamers are built from heterodimers and utilise a jigsaw-puzzle system of pegs and holes, and underlying minor capsid proteins, to assemble the capsid laterally from the 5-fold vertices. At these vertices proteins engage inwards with the internal membrane vesicle whilst 2-fold symmetric horn-like structures protrude outwards. The horns are assembled from repeated globular domains attached to a central spine, presumably facilitating multimeric attachment to the cell receptor. Such viruses may represent precursors of the main PRD1-adeno lineage, similarly engaging cell-receptors via 5-fold spikes and using minor proteins to define particle size.

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Archaeal VirusesCapsid ProteinsModels, MolecularVirus AssemblyCapsid Proteins

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PMID30926810
PMCPMC6441041

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