'Let the Phage Do the Work': Using the Phage P22 Coat Protein Structures As a Framework to Understand Its Folding and Assembly Mutants

Overview

Journal Virology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2010 Mar 19

PMID 20236676

Citations 56

Authors

Carolyn M Teschke

Kristin N Parent

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Abstract

The amino acid sequence of viral capsid proteins contains information about their folding, structure and self-assembly processes. While some viruses assemble from small preformed oligomers of coat proteins, other viruses such as phage P22 and herpesvirus assemble from monomeric proteins (Fuller and King, 1980; Newcomb et al., 1999). The subunit assembly process is strictly controlled through protein:protein interactions such that icosahedral structures are formed with specific symmetries, rather than aberrant structures. dsDNA viruses commonly assemble by first forming a precursor capsid that serves as a DNA packaging machine (Earnshaw, Hendrix, and King, 1980; Heymann et al., 2003). DNA packaging is accompanied by a conformational transition of the small precursor procapsid into a larger capsid for isometric viruses. Here we highlight the pseudo-atomic structures of phage P22 coat protein and rationalize several decades of data about P22 coat protein folding, assembly and maturation generated from a combination of genetics and biochemistry.

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