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Mammalian Reovirus Virion
as solved by Cryoelectron Microscopy and Image Reconstuction
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Summary
Animations of the virion of mammalian reovirus, as solved by cryo-electron
microscopy and image reconstruction. Rendered as an isosurface
using Iris Explorer
on a Silicon Graphics workstation.
Isosurfaces are used to portray the three-dimensional structure of the
virus. An isosurface is obtained by converting the subset of electron
density values in the three-dimensional array that contours a chosen
threshold value (isovalue) into a surface representation approximated
by polygons.
Structural elements of interest include the five-fold vertices
(five-fold symmetrical stars) containing lambda-2 protein and the
hexameric and tetrameric flower-like projections composed of sigma-3
protein.
Created October 1994.
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge Timothy S. Baker and colleagues at the
Structural Biology Group at Purdue University for supplying
us with the three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy datasets
which were used to generate these images and animations.
Reference
Dryden, K.A., G. Wang, M. Yeager, M.L. Nibert, K.M. Coombs,
D.B. Furlong, B.N. Fields, and T.S. Baker. 1993. Early steps in reovirus
infection are associated with dramatic changes in supramolecular
structure and protein conformation: analysis of virions and
subviral particles by cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction.
J. Cell Biol. 122:1023-1041.
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