Figure 1
Structure of bacterial virus T7. (A) The model constructed ab initio by Svergun et al. (1982) from the SAXS data. The processed experimental curve is displayed in the upper panel as a solid line and the scattering from the model is shown as a dashed line. The plot displays the logarithm of the scattering intensity I(s) as a function of the modulus of the scattering vector , where 2θ is the scattering angle and λ = 0.15 nm is the X-ray wavelength. Bottom panel: a cross section of the electron density map containing the rotation axis. (B) and (C) are cross sections of the cryo-EM 3D structure of the mature virion and of the DNA-free prohead, respectively [adapted with permission from Agirrezabala et al. (2005)]. |