Electron Tomography and Simulation of Baculovirus Actin Comet Tails Support a Tethered Filament Model of Pathogen Propulsion

Jan Mueller; Julia Pfanzelter; Christoph Winkler; Akihiro Narita; Christophe Le Clainche; Maria Nemethova; Marie-France Carlier; Yuichiro Maeda; Matthew D. Welch; Taro Ohkawa; Christian Schmeiser; Guenter P. Resch; J. Victor Small

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001765

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Electron Tomography and Simulation of Baculovirus Actin Comet Tails Support a Tethered Filament Model of Pathogen Propulsion

Jan Mueller,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Julia Pfanzelter,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Christoph Winkler,

Affiliations RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
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Akihiro Narita,

Affiliations Nagoya University, Graduate School of Sciences, Structural Biology Research Center and Division of Biological Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Nagoya University JST PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
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Christophe Le Clainche,

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Maria Nemethova,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Marie-France Carlier,

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Yuichiro Maeda,

Affiliation Nagoya University, Graduate School of Sciences, Structural Biology Research Center and Division of Biological Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Matthew D. Welch,

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Taro Ohkawa,

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Christian Schmeiser,

Affiliations RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
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Guenter P. Resch,

Affiliation Campus Science Support Facilities GmbH, Vienna, Austria
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J. Victor Small

* E-mail: Vic.small@imba.oeaw.ac.at

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Electron Tomography and Simulation of Baculovirus Actin Comet Tails Support a Tethered Filament Model of Pathogen Propulsion

Jan Mueller,
Julia Pfanzelter,
Christoph Winkler,
Akihiro Narita,
Christophe Le Clainche,
Maria Nemethova,
Marie-France Carlier,
Yuichiro Maeda,
Matthew D. Welch,
Taro Ohkawa

Published: January 14, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001765

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