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K Raghavendra1, J A Kelly, L Khairallah
1Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06268.
Abstract:
Experiments have been carried out on the coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus (TMVP) to test for the occurrence of the previously postulated RNA-induced direct switching, during in vitro assembly of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), of the subunit packing from the cylindrical bilayer disk to the virus helical arrangement. No evidence was found for such RNA-induced switching and no evidence for the direct participation of the bilayer disk in either the nucleation or elongation phases of the in vitro virus assembly. Instead, virus assembly proceeds by an initiation step involving the binding of the RNA to the previously characterized two-plus turn helical aggregate that is formed from small oligomers of subunits. However, a bilayer disk, which has been characterized in high ionic strength crystals, has been observed in low ionic strength virus assembly solutions only as a transient species upon depolymerization of dimers of bilayer disks formed in solution at high ionic strength, and not as an equilibrium species of TMVP.
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