High resolution structure of hexameric herpesvirus DNA-packaging motor elucidates revolving mechanism and ends 20-year fervent debate

摘要

. (A) The motor complex and the related structure environment. The two at the bottom feet (pink and blue) represent the ATPase hexamer. (B) The ATPase complex with one DNA bound to the dimeric subunits. The hand indicates the arginine finger (red suggests active) and the hat is the nuclease to cleave the concatemeric DNA upon completion of the packaging of the genome