| Literature DB >> 18097092 |
Yasunobu Wada1, Hideaki Tanaka, Eiki Yamashita, Chikako Kubo, Tamaki Ichiki-Uehara, Eiko Nakazono-Nagaoka, Toshihiro Omura, Tomitake Tsukihara.
Abstract
The structure of melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) was determined at 2.8 A resolution. Although MNSV is classified into the genus Carmovirus of the family Tombusviridae, the three-dimensional structure of MNSV showed a higher degree of similarity to tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), which belongs to the genus Tombusvirus, than to carnation mottle virus (CMtV), turnip crinkle virus (TCV) or cowpea mottle virus (CPMtV) from the genus Carmovirus. Thus, the classification of the family Tombusviridae at the genus level conflicts with the patterns of similarity among coat-protein structures. MNSV is one of the viruses belonging to the genera Tombusvirus or Carmovirus that are naturally transmitted in the soil by zoospores of fungal vectors. The X-ray structure of MNSV provides us with a representative structure of viruses transmitted by fungi.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 18097092 PMCID： PMC2374003 DOI： 10.1107/S1744309107066481
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun ISSN： 1744-3091