Structures of filamentous viruses infecting hyperthermophilic archaea explain DNA stabilization in extreme environments.
Wang, F., Baquero, D.P., Beltran, L.C., Su, Z., Osinski, T., Zheng, W., Prangishvili, D., Krupovic, M., Egelman, E.H.(2020) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117: 19643-19652
- PubMed: 32759221 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011125117
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6WQ0, 6WQ2 - PubMed Abstract: 
Living organisms expend metabolic energy to repair and maintain their genomes, while viruses protect their genetic material by completely passive means. We have used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to solve the atomic structures of two filamentous double-stranded DNA viruses that infect archaeal hosts living in nearly boiling acid: Saccharolobus solfataricus rod-shaped virus 1 (SSRV1), at 2 ...