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ReviewNature chemical biology2020

Cryo-electron microscopy for the study of virus assembly.

Daniel Luque, José R Castón

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Review in Nature chemical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Characterization of VSV-GP morphology by cryo-EM imaging and SEC-MALS.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
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  12. The Basic Architecture of Viruses.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2024
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  14. Nucleic Acid Packaging in Viruses.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2024
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  17. Understanding Virus Structure and Dynamics through Molecular Simulations.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2023
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  18. Label-free microscopy for virus infections.Microscopy (Oxford, England) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniel LuqueCentro Nacional de Microbiología/ISCIII, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
José R CastónDepartment of Structure of Macromolecules, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain. jrcaston@cnb.csic.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2350-9048

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although viruses are extremely diverse in shape and size, evolution has led to a limited number of viral classes or lineages, which is probably linked to the assembly constraints of a viable capsid. Viral assembly mechanisms are restricted to two general pathways, (i) co-assembly of capsid proteins and single-stranded nucleic acids and (ii) a sequential mechanism in which scaffolding-mediated capsid precursor assembly is followed by genome packaging. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), which are revolutionizing structural biology, are central to determining the high-resolution structures of many viral assemblies as well as those of assembly intermediates. This wealth of cryo-EM data has also led to the development and redesign of virus-based platforms for biomedical and biotechnological applications. In this Review, we will discuss recent viral assembly analyses by cryo-EM and cryo-ET showing how natural assembly mechanisms are used to encapsulate heterologous cargos including chemicals, enzymes, and/or nucleic acids for a variety of nanotechnological applications.

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CapsidCapsid ProteinsCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationProtein ConformationVirus AssemblyCapsid Proteins

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