The three-dimensional structures of two complexes between recombinant MS2 capsids and RNA operator fragments reveal sequence-specific protein-RNA interactions.
Valegard, K., Murray, J.B., Stonehouse, N.J., van den Worm, S., Stockley, P.G., Liljas, L.(1997) J Mol Biol 270: 724-738
- PubMed: 9245600 
- DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1144
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1ZDH, 1ZDI - PubMed Abstract: 
Crystal structures of two complexes between recombinant MS2 capsids and RNA operator fragments have been determined at 2.7 A resolution. The coat protein of the RNA bacteriophage MS2 is bifunctional; it forms the icosahedral virus shell to protect the viral nucleic acid and it acts as a translational repressor by binding with high specificity to a unique site on the RNA, a single stem-loop structure, containing the initiation codon of the gene for the viral replicase ...