Trus Benes L, Cheng Naiqian, Newcomb William W, Homa Fred L, Brown Jay C, Steven Alasdair C
Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 50, Room 1517, MSC 8025, 50 South Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-8025, USA.
J Virol. 2004 Nov;78(22):12668-71. doi: 10.1128/JVI.78.22.12668-12671.2004.
By electron microscopy and image analysis, we find that baculovirus-expressed UL6 is polymorphic, consisting of rings of 11-, 12-, 13-, and 14-fold symmetry. The 12-mer is likely to be the oligomer incorporated into procapsids: at a resolution of 16 A, it has an axial channel, peripheral flanges, and fits snugly into a vacant vertex site. Its architecture resembles those of bacteriophage portal/connector proteins.
通过电子显微镜和图像分析,我们发现杆状病毒表达的UL6是多态性的,由具有11、12、13和14重对称性的环组成。12聚体可能是整合到原衣壳中的寡聚体:在16埃的分辨率下,它有一个轴向通道、外周凸缘,并且紧密地契合到一个空的顶点位点。其结构类似于噬菌体门户/连接蛋白的结构。