CAPSID ASSEMBLY. “Bacteriophage P22 provides a well-studied example for assembly of capsids formed from subunits with the HK97-fold. Assembly of bacteriophage P22 in vivo proceeds via a nucleation-limited reaction in which 415 copies of coat protein (gp5, the product of gene 5) co-polymerize with 60–300 scaffolding proteins (gp8), the dodecameric portal protein complex (gp1), and ejection proteins (gp7, gp16 and gp20).”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022