Assembly mechanism of the pleomorphic immature poxvirus scaffold
Immature poxviruses are characterized by nonicosahedral semiordered protein scaffolds critical for morphogenesis. Here, the authors use cryo-EM structures of Vaccinia virus D13 scaffold intermediates to explain their assembly mechanism.
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-03-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29305-5 |