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Diffraction studies of the particles of two closteroviruses: heracleum latent virus and heracleum virus 6

¹ Department of Applied Physics and Electronic and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN
² Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA
and³ Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, U.K.

X-ray diffraction from oriented specimens of purified preparations of particles of heracleum latent clostero-virus (HLV) showed that they have a helical arrangement of protein subunits, and that the structure repeats in five helical turns in which there are 5q ± 1 protein subunits, where q is an integer. The pitch of the helix was estimated to be 3.26 (±0.10) nm. Optical diffraction patterns from electron micrographs of HLV particles give an estimated pitch of 3.3 (±0.2) nm and show that the number of subunits in the repeat period is 5q-1, where q has a value of 8 or 9. Optical diffraction from electron micrographs of particles of a second closterovirus, heracleum virus 6, shows that they too have a helical structure which repeats in five turns, in which there are 5q ± 1 protein subunits. The estimated pitch of the primary helix is 3.6 (± 0.2) nm, and the estimate of q is 9.

Received 8 April 1992; accepted 23 July 1992.

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