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The coat of tomato bushy stunt virus is built from protein subunits having rigid domains connected by a flexible hinge. Two states of the hinge are present in the T=3 icosahedral structure. Each subunit has a binding site for RNA on its inner surface.
番茄丛矮病毒的衣壳由蛋白质亚基构成,这些亚基具有通过柔性铰链相连的刚性结构域。在T=3二十面体结构中存在铰链的两种状态。每个亚基在其内表面都有一个RNA结合位点。