A Charged Performance by gp17 in Viral Packaging

R. Scott Williams; Gareth J. Williams; John A. Tainer

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.12.011

A Charged Performance by gp17 in Viral Packaging

R. Scott Williams, Gareth J. Williams, John A. Tainer

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Abstract

Packaging of viral genomes into virus capsids requires powerful motors to overcome the repulsive force that builds as the nucleic acids are compressed. Through structural analyses of the T4 bacteriophage packaging motor gp17, Sun et al. (2008) now propose a packaging mechanism in which electrostatic forces cause the motor to alternate between tensed and relaxed conformational states.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1169-1171
Number of pages	3
Journal	Cell
Volume	135
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2008.12.011
State	Published - Dec 26 2008
Externally published	Yes

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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