Dynamics of telescoping Inovirus: a mechanism for assembly at membrane adhesions.
Telescoping of Inovirus (filamentous bacteriophage) into short hollow tubes by organic solvents suggests a molecular mechanism both for infection and for maturation of the virion at adhesions between the inner and outer bacterial membranes. The symmetry of alpha-helix subunit arrangement in the virion is related to the symmetry of leaf arrangement in plants (phyllotaxis) and is conserved in a molecular rearrangement model of the telescope.
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Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002213:Capsid / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012997:Solvents
D012997:Solvents