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Structure of southern bean mosaic virus at 2.8 Å resolution

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X-ray diffraction studies reveal that the polypeptide chain of the southern bean mosaic virus protein subunit has a fold closely similar to the shell domain of tomato bushy stunt virus. The protruding domain of tomato bushy stunt virus is absent in southern bean mosaic virus. The tertiary structure observed in these viruses may be particularly suitable f or the formation of the protein coat in small, spherical, RNA-containing, plant viruses.

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  1. Andrew G. W. Leslie

    Present address: Biophysics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

  2. Ivan Rayment

    Present address: Structural Biology Laboratory, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02154

  3. Dietrich Suck

    Present address: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Postfach 10 22 09, 69, Heidelberg, 1, FRG

  4. Tomitake Tsukihara

    Present address: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University, Koyama-cho, Tottori, 680, Japan

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    Celerino Abad-Zapatero, Sherin S. Abdel-Meguid, John E. Johnson, Andrew G. W. Leslie, Ivan Rayment, Michael G. Rossmann, Dietrich Suck & Tomitake Tsukihara

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Abad-Zapatero, C., Abdel-Meguid, S., Johnson, J. et al. Structure of southern bean mosaic virus at 2.8 Å resolution. Nature 286, 33–39 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/286033a0

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