A viral genome packaging ring-ATPase is a flexibly coordinated pentamer
L. Dai, D. Singh, S. Lu, V. Kottadiel, R. Vafabakhsh, M. Mahalingam, Y. R. Chemla, T. Ha, V. B. Rao
The paper determines the composition of the bacteriophage T4 DNA packaging motor and shows that it can tolerate an inactive subunit, challenging the idea of strict coordination among motor subunits.
bioRxiv · Mar 8, 2021Biophysics