Icosahedral viruses defined by their positively charged domains: a signature for viral identity and capsid assembly strategy
Rodrigo Dias Requião, Rodolfo Lopes Carneiro, Mariana H. Moreira, Marcelo Ribeiro Alves, Silvana Rossetto, Fernando Lucas Palhano, Tatiana Domitrovic
The paper identifies a conserved positively charged arginine-rich domain in icosahedral viruses that correlates with capsid assembly and genome packaging strategies.
Scientific Reports · Mar 25, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics