Five Rotational Registers Define Modular Portal-Capsid Assembly in Cyanophage P-SSP7
Parvate, A. D.; Bohutskyi, P.; Sadler, N.; Cheung, M.; Evans, J. E.
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The virus P-SSP7 infects the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus, one of the most abundant photosynthetic microbes in the ocean, making this pairing a useful model for studying host-virus interactions. Infection proceeds through a portal-tail complex that attaches to the viral protein shell at a single specialized vertex, where the two structures have mismatched symmetries. Previous studies described this region only at coarse resolution which continues to limit understanding of how the virus assembles and injects its genome. Using cryo-electron microscopy of high-quality samples, we determined the first near-atomic-resolution structure of the complete P-SSP7 virion and its portal-tail complex. We captured 3D classes where the shell and portal-tail complex connect in five distinct arrangements. Fitting and modeling 2 of these states helped resolve and establish modular attachment in five rotational registers as the basis for capsid-portal symmetry mismatch in P-SSP7 assembly.
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