Adenovirus (AdV) capsid organization is considerably complex, not only because of its large
size (~ 950 Å) and triangulation number (pseudo T= 25), but also because it contains four …

Aquatic viruses include infected viruses in aquatic animals, plants and microorganisms, and
free-floating viruses (virioplankton) in water environments. In the last three decades, a huge …

Bacterial microcompartments are primitive organelles composed entirely of protein subunits.
Genomic sequence databases reveal the widespread occurrence of microcompartments …

The structure of the membrane-containing bacteriophage PRD1 has been determined by X-
ray crystallography at about 4 Å resolution. Here we describe the structure and location of …

Our discovery that the major coat protein of bacteriophage PRD1 resembles that of human
adenovirus raised the unexpected possibility that viruses infecting bacteria could be related …

Archaea and their viruses are poorly understood when compared with the Eukarya and
Bacteria domains of life. We report here the crystal structure of the major capsid protein …

Many viruses protect their genome with a combination of a protein shell with or without a
membrane layer. Here we describe the structure of faustovirus, the first DNA virus (to our …

Viruses of archaea represent one of the most enigmatic parts of the virosphere. Most of the
characterized archaeal viruses infect extremophilic hosts and display remarkable diversity of …

In internal membrane-containing viruses, a lipid vesicle enclosed by the icosahedral capsid
protects the genome. It has been postulated that this internal membrane is the genome …

Molecular simulations of the self-assembly of cone-shaped particles with specific, attractive
interactions are performed. Upon cooling from random initial conditions, we find that the …