The molecular details of how these viruses self - assemble protective protein containers around their cognate genomes in a specific and efficient manner have been revealed and illustrate multiple contacts
between coat proteins and dispersed packaging signals in the viral genome.
The high - resolution structure of a filamentous flexible plant virus shows that there is structural homology
between its coat protein and the nucleoproteins of an unrelated group of enveloped RNA animal viruses.
Not exact matches
Image: Crystal structure of the complex
between a domain repeat of egg
coat protein VERL (dark pink) and cognate sperm
protein lysin (blue).