Structure of the reovirus core at 3.6 A resolution.
Reinisch, K.M., Nibert, M.L., Harrison, S.C.(2000) Nature 404: 960-967
- PubMed: 10801118 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/35010041
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1EJ6 - PubMed Abstract: 
The reovirus core is an assembly with a relative molecular mass of 52 million that synthesizes, modifies and exports viral messenger RNA. Analysis of its structure by X-ray crystallography shows that there are alternative, specific and completely non-equivalent contacts made by several surfaces of two of its proteins; that the RNA capping and export apparatus is a hollow cylinder, which probably sequesters its substrate to ensure completion of the capping reactions; that the genomic double-stranded RNA is coiled into concentric layers within the particle; and that there is a protein shell that appears to be common to all groups of double-stranded RNA viruses.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.