Crystal structures of MS2 coat protein mutants in complex with wild-type RNA operator fragments.
van den Worm, S.H., Stonehouse, N.J., Valegard, K., Murray, J.B., Walton, C., Fridborg, K., Stockley, P.G., Liljas, L.(1998) Nucleic Acids Res 26: 1345-1351
- PubMed: 9469847 
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.5.1345
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1AQ3, 1AQ4, 1MVA, 1MVB - PubMed Abstract: 
In MS2 assembly of phage particles results from an interaction between a coat protein dimer and a stem-loop of the RNA genome (the operator hairpin). Amino acid residues Thr45, which is universally conserved among the small RNA phages, and Thr59 are part of the specific RNA binding pocket and interact directly with the RNA; the former through a hydrogen bond, the latter through hydrophobic contacts ...