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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-10-6
pubmed:abstractText
The thermal denaturation of the common strain of a rod-shaped plant virus, tobacco mosaic virus, has been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, and compared to that of various aggregation states of its coat protein and to that of three other TMV strains. The state of the virions was monitored by electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation. The observed endotherms could be analysed in terms of a step-wise dissociation of the virions. The transition temperatures of the three successive structural changes increased with decreasing pH, from pH = 8.0 to pH = 5.0, although the corresponding enthalpy changes did not vary appreciably with pH. TMV-HR showed a stronger pH dependence of the transition temperatures than the other strains, probably reflecting the importance of the changes in affecting the charged amino acids of its coat protein. The first step of the dissociation, which correlates with the breaking up of the virions into three or four shorter rods, implies a conformational change of the particle that may be related to the first step of the in situ decapsidation of TMV.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0175-7571
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
77-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Scanning calorimetric studies of the stability of tobacco mosaic virus and aggregates of its coat protein.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire d'Ultrasons et de Dynamique des Fluides Complexes, Unité de Recherche Associée au C.N.R.S. no 851, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article