Cheng Naiqian, Trus Benes L, Belnap David M, Newcomb William W, Brown Jay C, Steven Alasdair C
Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
J Virol. 2002 Aug;76(15):7855-9. doi: 10.1128/jvi.76.15.7855-7859.2002.
The capsid of herpes simplex virus has an icosahedral surface lattice with a nonskew triangulation number, T=16. Nevertheless, the proteins arrayed on this lattice necessarily have an intrinsic handedness. We have determined the handedness of both the herpes simplex virus type 1 capsid and its precursor procapsid by a cryoelectron microscopic tilting method.