2c0x
From Proteopedia
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF FD FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE REFINED WITH RESPECT TO X-RAY FIBRE DIFFRACTION AND SOLID-STATE NMR DATA
Overview
Filamentous bacteriophage (Inovirus) is a simple and well-characterized model system. The phage particle, or virion, is about 60 angstroms in diameter and several thousand angstrom units long. The virions are assembled at the bacterial membrane as they extrude out of the host without killing it, an example of specific transport of nucleoprotein assemblages across membranes. The Ff group (fd, f1 and M13) has been especially widely studied. Models of virion assembly have been proposed based on a molecular model of the fd virion derived by X-ray fibre diffraction. A somewhat different model of the fd virion using solid-state NMR data has been proposed, not consistent with these models of assembly nor with the X-ray diffraction data. Here we show that reinterpreted NMR data are also consistent with the model derived from X-ray fibre diffraction studies, and discuss models of virion assembly.
About this Structure
2C0X is a Single protein structure of sequence from Enterobacteria phage fd. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Molecular structure of fd (f1, M13) filamentous bacteriophage refined with respect to X-ray fibre diffraction and solid-state NMR data supports specific models of phage assembly at the bacterial membrane., Marvin DA, Welsh LC, Symmons MF, Scott WR, Straus SK, J Mol Biol. 2006 Jan 13;355(2):294-309. Epub 2005 Nov 8. PMID:16300790 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 21:04:37 2008
