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Structure and mechanism of baculovirus actin tails.
A cunning group of pathogens induce comet tails of actin in host cytoplasm to spread their infection from one cell to the next. Mueller et al. use electron tomography to elucidate the structure of and insect virus actin comets and provide new insights into the mechanism of actin-based pathogen propulsion.
Image Credit: IMBA graphics
Citation: (2014) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 12(1) January 2014. PLoS Biol 12(1): ev12.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v12.i01
Published: January 28, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A cunning group of pathogens induce comet tails of actin in host cytoplasm to spread their infection from one cell to the next. Mueller et al. use electron tomography to elucidate the structure of and insect virus actin comets and provide new insights into the mechanism of actin-based pathogen propulsion.
Image Credit: IMBA graphics