About the Authors
- Stephen C. Graham
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Affiliation Division of Structural Biology and Oxford Protein Production Facility, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- René Assenberg
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Contributed equally to this work with: René Assenberg, Olivier Delmas
Affiliation Division of Structural Biology and Oxford Protein Production Facility, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Olivier Delmas
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Contributed equally to this work with: René Assenberg, Olivier Delmas
Affiliation UPRE Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Anil Verma
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Affiliation Division of Structural Biology and Oxford Protein Production Facility, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Alireza Gholami
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Affiliation UPRE Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Chiraz Talbi
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Affiliation UPRE Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Raymond J. Owens
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Affiliation Division of Structural Biology and Oxford Protein Production Facility, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- David I. Stuart
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Affiliation Division of Structural Biology and Oxford Protein Production Facility, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jonathan M. Grimes
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* E-mail: jonathan@strubi.ox.ac.uk (JMG); hbourhy@pasteur.fr (HB)
Affiliation Division of Structural Biology and Oxford Protein Production Facility, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Hervé Bourhy
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* E-mail: jonathan@strubi.ox.ac.uk (JMG); hbourhy@pasteur.fr (HB)
Affiliation UPRE Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the paper: SCG. Collected diffraction data, solved and refined the structures, and performed analytical gel filtration: SCG. Expressed, purified and crystallized LBV and VSVNJ M, and subcloned LBV M: RA. Cloned LBV and VSVNJ M: OD. Purified LBV M: AV. Cloned truncated LBV M: AG. Sequenced lyssavirus M genes: CT. Designed the experiments, interpreted the results and revised the manuscript: SCG RA OD AV AG CT RJO DIS JMG HB.