Atomic structures and deletion mutant reveal different capsid-binding patterns and functional significance of tegument protein pp150 in murine and human cytomegaloviruses with implications for therapeutic development

• Wei Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Liu, Xinghong Dai

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Material Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Xinghong Dai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Liu, Xinghong Dai

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4102-3175

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• Jonathan Jih,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5169-0919

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• Karen Chan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Phong Trang,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Comparative Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Xuekui Yu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Rilwan Balogun,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8357-8857

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• Ye Mei,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Material Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3953-8508

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• Fenyong Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Program in Comparative Biochemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Z. Hong Zhou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Hong.Zhou@ucla.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8373-4717

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