ArticleNucleic acids research2021
Atomistic basis of force generation, translocation, and coordination in a viral genome packaging motor.
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- Revolving hexameric ATPases as asymmetric motors to translocate double-stranded DNA genome along one strand.iScience · 2023Review
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- Molecular dynamics of the viral life cycle: progress and prospects.Current opinion in virology · 2021Review
- A viral genome packaging motor transitions between cyclic and helical symmetry to translocate dsDNA.Science advances · 2021Article
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- Effects of Model Shape, Volume, and Softness of the Capsid for DNA Packaging of phi29.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2020Article
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Abstract
Double-stranded DNA viruses package their genomes into pre-assembled capsids using virally-encoded ASCE ATPase ring motors. We present the first atomic-resolution crystal structure of a multimeric ring form of a viral dsDNA packaging motor, the ATPase of the asccφ28 phage, and characterize its atomic-level dynamics via long timescale molecular dynamics simulations. Based on these results, and previous single-molecule data and cryo-EM reconstruction of the homologous φ29 motor, we propose an overall packaging model that is driven by helical-to-planar transitions of the ring motor. These transitions are coordinated by inter-subunit interactions that regulate catalytic and force-generating events. Stepwise ATP binding to individual subunits increase their affinity for the helical DNA phosphate backbone, resulting in distortion away from the planar ring towards a helical configuration, inducing mechanical strain. Subsequent sequential hydrolysis events alleviate the accumulated mechanical strain, allowing a stepwise return of the motor to the planar conformation, translocating DNA in the process. This type of helical-to-planar mechanism could serve as a general framework for ring ATPases.
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