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CURRENT OPINION IN VIROLOGY
卷 51, 期 -, 页码 65-73出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2021.09.004
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [AI081726]
- NSF [MCB-0923873]
The portal vertex is an important structure in many icosahedral viruses, playing a crucial role in genome packaging and infection. Recent research has revealed asymmetric interactions between the portal vertices, leading to a valve-like mechanism for regulating DNA flow.
Many icosahedral viruses including tailed bacteriophages and herpes viruses have a unique portal vertex where a dodecameric protein ring is associated with a fivefold capsid shell. While the peripheral regions of the portal ring are involved in capsid assembly, its central channel is used to transport DNA into and out of capsid during genome packaging and infection. Though the atomic structure of this highly conserved, turbine-shaped, portal is known for nearly two decades, its molecular mechanism remains a mystery. Recent high-resolution in situ structures reveal asymmetric interactions between the 12-fold portal and the fivefold capsid. These lead to a valve-like mechanism for this symmetry-mismatched portal vertex that regulates DNA flow through the channel, a critical function for high fidelity assembly of an infectious virion.
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