Rhinovirus 14 VP1

VP1 protein structure was extracted from the crystal structure data for the complete particle (Rossman et al., 1985).

The atomic coordinates of VP1 are displayed using various molecular rendering techniques: molecular surface, space filling, wireframe, ball-and-stick, and ribbon diagram. The space-filling representation plots the positions of atoms; wireframe and ball-and-stick representations identify chemical bonds as well as atom positions. The protein's secondary structure (i.e. local structural elements such as alpha-helix or beta-sheet (Chothia et al., 1977)) can be examined with a plot of the alpha-carbon backbone, or preferably, with a ribbon diagram (Richardson, 1985).

Fig. 1: rendered as a molecular surface using Grasp.

Fig. 2: rendered as space-filling using MIDAS.

Fig. 3: rendered as wireframe using SYBYL

Fig. 4: rendered as ball-and-stick using SYBYL

Fig. 5: rendered as a ribbon diagram using Ribbons

Fig. 6: alpha-carbon backbone, rendered as wireframe using SYBYL.

All images were rendered on a Silicon Graphics workstation.

References

Rossman, M.G., E. Arnold, J.W. Erickson, E.A. Frankenberger, J.P. Griffith, H.-J. Hecht, J.E. Johnson, G. Kamer, M. Luo, A.G. Mosser, R.R. Rueckert, B. Sherry, and G. Vriend. 1985. Structure of a human common cold virus and functional relationship to other picornaviruses. Nature 317:145-153. (PDB entry # 4RHV)

Chothia, C., M. Levitt, D. Richardson. 1977. Structure of proteins: packing of alpha-helices and pleated sheets. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74:4130-4134.

Richardson, J.S. 1985. Schematic drawings of protein structures. Methods Enzymol. 115:359-380.

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