Abstract
The coat of tomato bushy stunt virus is built from protein subunits having rigid domains connected by a flexible hinge. Two states of the hinge are present in the T = 3 icosahedral structure. Each subunit has a binding site for RNA on its inner surface.
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Winkler, F., Schutt, C., Harrison, S. et al. Tomato bushy stunt virus at 5.5-Å resolution. Nature 265, 509–513 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/265509a0
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