How a Bullet-Shaped Virus Assembles (4 of 5) (VIDEO)

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Matching between high density regions (gray blobs, contoured at 3.0σ above the mean) in the M density map and α helices in the docked crystal structure of MCTD (PDB:2W2R) (ribbons). This video relates to an article that appeared in the February 5, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. P. Ge at University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, Calif., and colleagues, was titled, "Cryo-EM Model of the Bullet-Shaped Vesicular Stomatitis Virus."

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Video courtesy of Dr. Z. Hong Zhou

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