生物
衣壳
病毒学
基因组
核糖核酸
病毒
寄主(生物学)
环状病毒
遗传学
呼肠孤病毒科
计算生物学
基因
轮状病毒
作者
Xian Xia,Po-Yu Sung,Michael W. Martynowycz,Tamir Gonen,Polly Roy,Zhou Zh
出处
期刊:Cell
[Elsevier]
日期:2024-04-01
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.007
摘要
Unlike those of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), and ssRNA viruses, the mechanism of genome packaging of dsRNA viruses is poorly understood. Here, we combined the techniques of high-resolution cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM), cellular cryoelectron tomography (cryo-ET), and structure-guided mutagenesis to investigate genome packaging and capsid assembly of bluetongue virus (BTV), a member of the Reoviridae family of dsRNA viruses. A total of eleven assembly states of BTV capsid were captured, with resolutions up to 2.8 Å, with most visualized in the host cytoplasm. ATPase VP6 was found underneath the vertices of capsid shell protein VP3 as an RNA-harboring pentamer, facilitating RNA packaging. RNA packaging expands the VP3 shell, which then engages middle- and outer-layer proteins to generate infectious virions. These revealed "duality" characteristics of the BTV assembly mechanism reconcile previous contradictory co-assembly and core-filling models and provide insights into the mysterious RNA packaging and capsid assembly of Reoviridae members and beyond.
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