Subassemblies and Asymmetry in Assembly of Herpes Simplex Virus Procapsid

The herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) capsid is a massive particle (~200 MDa; 1,250-Å diameter) with T=16 icosahedral symmetry. It initially assembles as a procapsid with ~4,000 protein subunits of 11 different kinds. The procapsid undergoes major changes in structure and composition as it matures, a p...

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Main Authors: Aksyuk, Anastasia A., Newcomb, William W., Cheng, Naiqian, Winkler, Dennis C., Fontana, Juan, Heymann, J. Bernard, Steven, Alasdair C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: American Society of Microbiology 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4611051/