8HOY | pdb_00008hoy

Cryo-EM structure of monkeypox virus DNA replication holoenzyme F8, A22 and E4 complex without DNA at 2.76 angostram

• PDB DOI: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb8HOY/pdb
• EM Map EMD-34927: EMDB EMDataResource

• Classification: VIRAL PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Monkeypox virus
• Expression System: Insect expression vector pBlueBacmsGCA1His, Insect expression vector pBlueBachsGCA1
• Mutation(s): Yes 


• Deposited: 2022-12-11 Released: 2023-12-13 
• Deposition Author(s): Xu, Y., Wu, Y., Zhang, Y., Fan, R., Yang, Y., Li, D., Yang, B., Zhang, Z., Dong, C.
• Funding Organization(s): National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
• Resolution: 2.76 Å
• Aggregation State: PARTICLE 
• Reconstruction Method: SINGLE PARTICLE 

Literature

Cryo-EM structures of human monkeypox viral replication complexes with and without DNA duplex.

Xu, Y., Wu, Y., Zhang, Y., Fan, R., Yang, Y., Li, D., Zhu, S., Yang, B., Zhang, Z., Dong, C.

(2023) Cell Res 33: 479-482

• PubMed: 36973539 
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-023-00796-1
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  8HDZ, 8HOY, 8HPA

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Organizational Affiliation: 
• Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
The Cryo-EM Center, Core facility of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. [e-mail].
Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. [e-mail].

Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 3-mer - A1B1C1 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Biological Assembly Evidence: gel filtration

Macromolecule Content 

• Total Structure Weight: 197.13 kDa 
• Atom Count: 13,454 
• Modeled Residue Count: 1,650 
• Deposited Residue Count: 1,696 
• Unique protein chains: 3

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
DNA polymerase	A	1,029	Monkeypox virus	Mutation(s): 2  Gene Names: F8L EC: 2.7.7.7
UniProt
Find proteins for A0A7H0DN44 (Monkeypox virus) Explore A0A7H0DN44  Go to UniProtKB:  A0A7H0DN44

Entity ID: 2
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
DNA polymerase processivity factor component A20	B [auth C]	426	Monkeypox virus	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: A22R
UniProt
Find proteins for A0A7H0DNC0 (Monkeypox virus) Explore A0A7H0DNC0  Go to UniProtKB:  A0A7H0DNC0

Entity ID: 3
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
E4R	C [auth B]	241	Monkeypox virus	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: E4R EC: 3.2.2.27
UniProt
Find proteins for M1LL92 (Monkeypox virus) Explore M1LL92  Go to UniProtKB:  M1LL92

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
• Resolution: 2.76 Å
• Aggregation State: PARTICLE 
• Reconstruction Method: SINGLE PARTICLE 

EM Software:

Task	Software Package	Version
MODEL REFINEMENT	PHENIX
RECONSTRUCTION	cryoSPARC

Structure Validation

Entry History & Funding Information

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 2023-12-13 
Deposition Author(s): Xu, Y., Wu, Y., Zhang, Y., Fan, R., Yang, Y., Li, D., Yang, B., Zhang, Z., Dong, C.

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Funding Organization	Location	Grant Number
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	China	32250710142

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 2023-12-13
  Type: Initial release
  
• Version 1.1: 2024-09-18
  Changes: Data collection, Database references
• Version 1.2: 2025-07-02
  Changes: Data collection, Structure summary