Three-dimensional Visualization of mRNA Release from
Actively-Transcribing Rotavirus Particles
Nat Struct Biol. 1997 4:118-121.
* Verna and Marrs McLean Deartment of Biochemistry, and the W.M. Keck Center
for Computational Biology; ** Division of Molecular Virology;
*** Program in Cell and Molecular Biology,
Baylor College of Medicine,
One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
The three-dimensional structure of actively-transcribing rotavirus
particles reveals that the nascent mRNA transcripts generated within the
core of the virion by endogenous transcriptase complexes are translocated
through the intact capsid via a system of channels at the icosahedral
5-fold axes.
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