Download MendeleyVisualization of protein-nucleic acid interactions in a virus. Refined structure of intact tobacco mosaic virus at 2.9 A resolution by X-ray fiber diffraction.
Namba, K., Pattanayek, R., Stubbs, G.(1989) J Mol Biol 208: 307-325
- PubMed: 2769760
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2836(89)90391-4
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:
2TMV - PubMed Abstract:
The structure of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) has been determined by fiber diffraction methods at 2.9 A resolution, and refined by restrained least-squares to an R-factor of 0.096. Protein-nucleic acid interactions are clearly visible. The final model contains all of the non-hydrogen atoms of the RNA and the protein, 71 water molecules, and two calcium-binding sites. Viral disassembly is driven by electrostatic repulsions between the charges in two carboxyl-carboxylate pairs and a phosphate-carboxylate pair. The phosphate-carboxylate pair and at least one of the carboxyl-carboxylate pairs appear to be calcium-binding sites. Nucleotide specificity, enabling TMV to recognize its own RNA by a repeating pattern of guanine residues, is provided by two guanine-specific hydrogen bonds in one of the three base-binding sites.
Organizational Affiliation:
Department of Molecular Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235.
