Enterovirus particles expel capsid pentamers to enable genome release.
Buchta D, Füzik T, Hrebík D, Levdansky Y, Sukeník L, Mukhamedova L, Moravcová J, Vácha R, Plevka P.
Buchta D, et al.
Nat Commun. 2019 Mar 8;10(1):1138. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09132-x.
Nat Commun. 2019.
PMID: 30850609
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The opening in the capsid, which is more than 120 A in diameter, enables the release of the genome without the need to unwind its putative double-stranded RNA segments. We also detect capsids lacking pentamers during genome release from echovirus 30. ...
The opening in the capsid, which is more than 120 A in diameter, enables the release of the genome without the need to unwind its putative d …