| Literature DB >> 17964628 |
Liza S Z Larsen1, Yurii Kuznetsov, Alex McPherson, G Wesley Hatfield, Suzanne Sandmeyer.
Abstract
The yeast retrovirus-like element Ty3 GAG3 gene encodes a Gag3 polyprotein analogous to retroviral Gag. Gag3 lacks matrix, but contains capsid, spacer, and nucleocapsid domains. Expression of a Ty3 Gag3 or capsid domain optimized for expression in Escherichia coli was sufficient for Ty3 particle assembly. Virus-like ordered particles assembled from Gag3 were similar in size to immature particles from yeast and contained nucleic acid. However, particles assembled from the CA domain were variable in size and displayed much less organization than native particles. These results indicate that assembly can be driven through interactions among capsid subunits in the particle, but that the nucleocapsid domain, likely in association with RNA, confers order upon this process.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17964628 PMCID： PMC2701475 DOI： 10.1016/j.virol.2007.09.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virology ISSN： 0042-6822 Impact factor: 3.616